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Our grey technology of machines and computers will not disappear, but green technology will be moving ahead even faster.
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Our grey technology of machines and computers will not disappear, but green technology will be moving ahead even faster.
Till women are more rationally educated, the progress in human virtue and improvement in knowledge must receive continual checks.
The world moves, and ideas that were good once are not always good.
I believe that social proof, social marketing, smart working, problem solving, business plan, fitness plan... are the future.
I try to learn from the past, but I plan for the future by focusing exclusively on the present. That's where the fun is.
The forces of the nineteenth century have run their course and are exhausted.
Whenever a man chooses his purpose and his commitment in all clearness and in all sincerity, whatever that purpose may be, it is impossible for him to prefer another. It is true in the sense that we do not believe in progress. Progress implies amelioration; but man is always the same, facing a situation which is always changing, and choice remains always a choice in the situation. The moral problem has not changed since the time when it was a choice between slavery and anti-slavery.
Progress is the life-style of man. The general life of the human race is called Progress, and so is its collective march. Progress advances, it makes the great human and earthly journey towards what is heavenly and divine; it has its pauses, when it rallies the stragglers, its stopping places when it meditates, contemplating some new and splendid promised land that has suddenly appeared on its horizon. It has its nights of slumber; and it is one of the poignant anxieties of the thinker to see the human spirit lost in shadow, and to grope in the darkness without being able to awake sleeping progress.
Enlightenment will be now the beginning, not the end. Beginning of a non-ending process in all dimensions of richness.
For the rational study of the law the blackletter man may be the man of the present, but the man of the future is the man of statistics and the master of economics.