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- Robert Browning
Progress is the law of life: man is not Man as yet.
- Vernher von Braun, German rocket engineer who came to the U.S. to work on the space program. Quoted in Time Magazine, February, 1958.
Everything in space obeys the laws of physics. If you know these laws and obey them, space will treat you kindly. And don't tell me that man doesn't belong out there. Man belongs wherever he wants to go; and he'll do plenty well when he gets there.
- Theodore Roosevelt (1858-1919) 26th President of the United States
The happiness of your life depends on the quality of your thoughts: therefore, guard accordingly, and take care that you entertain no notions unsuitable to virtue and reasonable nature.
- Clare Booth Luce
In the final analysis there is no solution to man's progress but the day's honest work, the day's honest decisions, the day's generous utterances and the day's good deed.
- Carlos P. Romulo (1899-1985) Phillipine Diplomat, Aide-de-camp to Gen. Douglas MacArthur
We are fallible. We certainly haven't attained perfection. But we can strive for it, and the virtue is in the striving.
- Charles Du Bos
The important thing is this: to be able at any moment to sacrifice what we are for what we could become.
- W. H. Auden (1907-1973) British Poet
The true men of action in our time, those who transform the world, are not the politicians and statesmen, but the scientists.
- Frank Curtis Williams
Man is still responsible... His success lies not with the stars but with himself. He must carry on the fight of self-correction and discipline. He must fight mediocrity as sin and live against the imperative of life's highest ideal.
- Melvyn Bragg (1939-) British Writer and Broadcaster
On the whole, despite pollution, resource recklessness and waste, I'm glad of the boom. I'm glad that people I know can move out of two-roomed damp gardenless slums into three-bedroomed council houses with bathrooms and lawns.... I'm glad that the sons are six inches taller than the fathers and that their sons show signs even of overtopping them.
- Pearl S. Buck (1892-1973) American Writer
The tough-minded... respect difference. Their goal is a world made safe for differences, where the United States may be American to the hilt without threatening the peace of the world, and France may be France, and Japan may be Japan on the same conditions.
- Julian Simon (1933-1998) American Academic
People call me an optimist, but I'm really an appreciator....When I was six years old and had scarlet fever, the first of the miracle drugs, sulfanilamide, saved my life. I'm grateful for computers and photocopiers...I appreciate where we've come from.
- James Allen
You are today where your thoughts have brought you, you will be tomorrow where your thoughts take you.
- Adlai Stevenson
The great German poet, Goethe, who also lived through a crisis of freedom, said to his generation: "What you have inherited from your fathers, earn over again for yourselves or it will not be yours." We inherited freedom. We seem unaware that freedom has to be remade and re-earned in each generation of man.
- Anatole France (1844-1924) French Poet, Novelist and Critic
The wonder is, not that the field of stars is so vast, but that man has measured it.
- Robert Louis Stevenson (1850-1894) Scottish Novelist
Every heart that has beat strongly and cheerfully has left a hopeful impulse behind it in the world, and bettered the tradition of mankind.
- Russell W. Davenport () American Editor, Fortune Magazine
Progress in every age results only from the fact that there are some men and women who refuse to believe that what they know to be right cannot
be done.
- Mabel Newcomber
It is more important to know where you are going than to get there quickly.
- Arthur Holly Compton (1892-1962) American Physicist
Despite some of the horrors and barbarisms of modern life which appall and grieve us, life has - or has the potential of - such richness, joy and adventure as were unknown to our ancestors except in their dreams.
- Calvin Coolidge
Little progress can be made by merely attempting to repress what is evil; our great hope lies in developing what is good.
- Robert F. Kennedy (1925-1968) American Attorney General, Senator
Few will have the greatness to bend history itself, but each one of us can work to change a small portion of events, and in the total of all those acts will be written the history of this generation.
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