"Change is certain. Progress is not."

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Source : "From Napoleon to Stalin and Other Essays". Book by Edward Hallett Carr, 1980.

Edward Hallett Carr

#Progress Quotes #Certain Quotes

“Life is a poem most people never read.”
“Warned by the disaster of the last great war, the statesmen of all nations have been taking measures to prevent the return of another such calamity.”
“Our photographs are filthier and our stories are more disgusting. We make no effort to be artistic.”
“The man was reportedly allowed to bring the turkey onboard as a therapy pet because it was an emotional support animal. It's so cute. It had one of those vests saying support animal, do not pet or baste.”
“Little wonder that we. . .find the old pictures of openness - pictures usually without any blur, and made by what seems a ritual of patience - wonderful. They restore to us knowledge of a place we seek but lose in the rush of our search. Though to enjoy even the pictures, much less the space itself, requires that we be still longer than is our custom.”
“And when our baby stirs and struggles to be born it compels humility: what we began is now its own.”
“The single best augury is to fight for one's country.”
“Some of us rush through life, and some of us saunter through life. Mrs Vesey sat through life.”

Source : Wilkie Collins (2013). “The Woman in White”, p.33, Courier Corporation

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