"We may make progress only by freeing ourselves from the rut of the past, but without this rut an orderly society would hardly be possible in the first place."

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Source : "The Future As History". Book by Robert Heilbroner, Chapter IV, Part 6, The Inertia of History, p. 195, 1960.

Robert Heilbroner

#Past Quotes #Progress Quotes #May Quotes

“Call it what you will, incentives are what get people to work harder.”
“God's rarest blessing is, after all, a good woman!”

Source : George Meredith (1922). “The Complete Works of George Meredith”, p.603, Library of Alexandria
“Faith is not the result of fuzy thinking. It is the cause of it.”
“What am I supposed to do here? What am I supposed to think?”
“Your birth is a mistake you'll spend your whole life trying to correct.”
“I think a lot of the basis of the open source movement comes from procrastinating students...”
“You cannot afford to confine your studies to the classroom. The universe and all of history is your classroom.”
“All art does but consist in the removal of surplusage.”

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