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  1. Bill Bryson _ At Home: A Short History of

    {Americans} were, for one thing, so smitten with the idea of progress that they invented things without having any idea whether those things would be of any use.
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  2. Zadie Smith _ Feel Free: Essays

    Neither my readers nor I are in the relatively sunlit uplands depicted in White Teeth anymore. But the lesson I take from this is not that the lives in that novel were illusory, but rather that progress is never permanent, will always be threatened, must be redoubled, restated and *reimagined* if it is to survive.
    book-quotepoliticsprogressoptimism

  3. Gordon S. Wood _ Empire of Liberty: A History

    In the decades following the Revolution, America changed so much and so rapidly that Americans not only became used to change, but came to expected and prize it.
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  4. Kim Stanley Robinson _ Forty Signs of Rain

    Live for the future. A cosmic history read out of signs so subtle and mathematical that only the effort of a huge transtemporal group of powerful minds could ever have teased it out; but then those who came later could be given the whole story, with its unexplored edges there to take off into.
    book-quotescienceprogresshuman-story

  5. Ray Bradbury _ Fahrenheit 451

    We need to make progress. Otherwise we're waiting for news in a world where there is no longer any news.
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  6. Ray Bradbury _ Fahrenheit 451

    The zipper displaces the button and a man lacks just that much time to think while dressing at dawn, a philosophical hour, and thus a melancholy hour.
    book-quotephilosophicalphilosophythought

  7. Neal Stephenson _ Anathem

    An old market had stood there until I'd been about six years old, when the authorities had renamed it the Olde Market, destroyed it, and built a new market devoted to selling T-shirts and other objects with pictures of the old market. Meanwhile, the people who had operated the little stalls in the old market had gone elsewhere and set up a thing on the edge of town that was now called the New Market even though it was actually the old market.
    book-quoteprogress

  8. Jack London _ To Build a Fire and Other

    So said Hair-Face, and they killed him, because, they said, he was a wild man and wanted to go back and live in a tree. It was very strange. Whenever a man arose and wanted to go forward all those that stood still said he went backward and should be killed. And the poor people helped stone him, and were fools. We were all fools, except those who were fat and did no work. The fools were called wise, and the wise were stoned. Men who worked did not get enough to eat, and the men who did not work ate too much.
    book-quotewiseworkprogress

  9. Steven Pressfield _ The Virtues of War: A Novel of

    Always attack. Even in defense, attack. The attacking arm possesses theinitiative and thus commands the action. To attack makes men brave; to defendmakes them timorous.
    book-quotewarprogressmoving-forward

  10. Ayn Rand _ Atlas Shrugged

    She watched the tunnels as they flowed past: bare walls of concrete, a net of pipes and wires, a web of rails that went off into black holes where green and red lights hung as distant drops of color. There was nothing else to dilute it, so that one could admire naked purpose and the ingenuity that had achieved it.
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  11. Ayn Rand _ We the Living

    Well, I always know what I want. And when you know what you want--you go toward it. Sometimes you go very fast, and sometimes only an inch a year. Perhaps you feel happier when you go fast. I don't know. I've forgotten the difference long ago, because it really doesn't matter, so long as you move.
    book-quotegrowthhappinessprogress

  12. Tom Robbins _ Skinny Legs and All

    Jerusalem was capital of southern Israel, known then as Judah. Isn't it true that there's always a rivalry between north and south? North and South Korea, North and South Vietnam, Northern and Southern Ireland, Yankees and Rebels, uptown and downtown. Somebody please tell me why that is? Maybe southerners get too much sun, like Mr. Sock over there, frying his threads, and northerners don't get enough {although I hardly think northern Israel a cool spot in the shade}, but southern peoples--tropical and downtown types--always seem to lean toward decadence, whereas uptown, in the north, progress is favored. Decadence and progress obviously are at odds.
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