#ogres

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Architecture will always express the technical and social progress of the country in which it is carried out. If we wish to give it the human content that it lacks, we must participate in the political struggle.


Oscar Niemeyer


#architecture #carried #content #country #express

There is hardly such a thing as a war in which it makes no difference who wins. Nearly always one side stands more of less for progress, the other side more or less for reaction.


George Orwell


#difference #hardly #less #makes #more

If you're climbing the ladder of life, you go rung by rung, one step at a time. Don't look too far up, set your goals high but take one step at a time. Sometimes you don't think you're progressing until you step back and see how high you've really gone.


Donny Osmond


#climbing #far #go #goals #gone

War involves in its progress such a train of unforeseen circumstances that no human wisdom can calculate the end; it has but one thing certain, and that is to increase taxes.


Thomas Paine


#certain #circumstances #end #human #human wisdom

A great gulf, however, has been opened between man's material advance and his social and moral progress, a gulf in which he may one day be lost if it is not closed or narrowed.


Lester B. Pearson


#been #between #closed #day #great

Until the last great war, a general expectation of material improvement was an idea peculiar to Western man. Now war and its aftermath have made economic and social progress a political imperative in every quarter of the globe.


Lester B. Pearson


#economic #every #expectation #general #globe

Some programming languages manage to absorb change, but withstand progress.


Alan Perlis


#change #languages #manage #programming #progress

It so happened that my goals kind of matched my career progression toward becoming an astronaut.


John L. Phillips


#becoming #career #goals #happened #kind

There's been progress toward seeing that nature and culture are not opposing terms, and that wilderness is not the only kind of landscape for environmentalists to concern themselves with.


Michael Pollan


#concern #culture #environmentalists #kind #landscape

Many interviewers when they come to talk to me, think they're being progressive by not mentioning in their stories any longer that I'm black. I tell them, 'Don't stop now. If I shot somebody you'd mention it.'


Colin Powell


#being #black #come #i #longer