#ogres

Progress is man's ability to complicate simplicity. ↗

— Thor Heyerdahl

#complicate #man #progress #simplicity

I've never progressed very far from my days as a smart aleck in middle school. ↗

— Carl Hiaasen

#far #i #middle #middle school #never

The brutalities of progress are called revolutions. When they are over we realize this: that the human race has been roughly handled, but that it has advanced. ↗

— Victor Hugo

#been #called #handled #human #human race

Nothing is more useless in developing a nation's economy than a gun, and nothing blocks the road to social development more than the financial burden of war. War is the arch enemy of national progress and the modern scourge of civilized men. ↗

— King Hussein I

#blocks #burden #civilized #developing #development

My view is that targets, properly constructed and applied across public services have been fundamental to past successes and will be an essential part of sustaining progress into the future. ↗

— John Hutton

#applied #been #constructed #essential #fundamental

As we continue to make great progress in the war on terror, now more than ever, it is important that members of the international community stand-by and bolster the efforts of the emerging diplomatic leaders in Iraq and Afghanistan. ↗

— James Inhofe

#bolster #community #continue #diplomatic #efforts

The thing with Kerry is that all of this is a natural progression, her troubles. It's a cycle. ↗

— Laura Innes

#her #kerry #natural #natural progression #progression

So we are now still dependent on foreign oil, have a problem with global warming, and are losing jobs rapidly to the Japanese in fuel-efficient vehicles as a result of that very shortsighted progress. ↗

— Jay Inslee

#foreign #foreign oil #fuel-efficient #global #global warming

The reasonable man adapts himself to the world: the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore all progress depends on the unreasonable man. ↗

— George Bernard Shaw

#philosophy #philosophy-of-life #progress #life

One can not impede scientific progress. ↗

— Mahmoud Ahmadinejad

#progress #scientific #scientific progress