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Historian, Novelist

Society must cease to look upon 'progress' as something desirable. 'Eternal Progress' is a nonsensical myth. What must be implemented is not a 'steadily expanding economy', but a zero growth economy, a stable economy. Economic growth is not only unnecessary but ruinous.

Economy - Eternity - Growing - Mythology - Nonsense - Progression - Stability

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Seneca the Younger

Philosopher, Statesman, Dramatist

The greatest loss of time is delay and expectation, which depend upon the future. We let go the present, which we have in our power, and look forward to that which depends upon chance, and so relinquish a certainty for an uncertainty.

Certainty - Chance - Dependence - Expectation - Future - Loss - Power - Time - Uncertainty

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Ralph Waldo Emerson

Essayist, Lecturer, Philosopher, Poet

The mass of men worry themselves into nameless graves while here and there a great unselfish soul forgets himself into immortality.

Man - Worrying

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Rajneesh

Guru

We remain unnecessarily worried. All worries are futile because that which is going to happen is going to happen.

Life - Worrying

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Henry Ford

Businessman, Industrialist

You can do anything if you have enthusiasm. Enthusiasm is the yeast that makes your hopes rise to the stars. Enthusiasm is the spark in your eye, the swing in your gait, the grip of your hand, the irresistible surge of your will and your energy to execute your ideas. Enthusiasts are fighters, they have fortitude, they have strong qualities. Enthusiasm is at the bottom of all progress. With it there is accomplishment. Without it there are only alibis.

Fighting - Progression - Strength

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Pema Chodron

Designer, Clergyman, Nun

Don't worry about achieving. Don't worry about perfection. Just be there each moment as best you can. When you realize you've wandered off again, simply very lightly acknowledge that. This light touch is the golden key to reuniting with our openness.

Achievement - Key - Open - Perfection - Realization - Worrying

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Ralph Waldo Emerson

Essayist, Lecturer, Philosopher, Poet

If you have a nation of men who have risen to that height of moral cultivation that they will not declare war or carry arms, for they have not so much madness left in their brains, you have a nation of lovers, of benefactors, of true, great, and able men.

Ability - Love - Man - Morals - Progression

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Samuel Johnson

Writer, Poet, Lexicographer

The mind is never satisfied with the objects immediately before it, but is always breaking away from the present moment, and losing itself in schemes of future felicity... The natural flights of the human mind are not from pleasure to pleasure, but from hope to hope.

Flight - Future - Hope - Human - Loss - Mindset - Objectification - Pleasure - Present - Satisfaction

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Samuel Johnson

Writer, Poet, Lexicographer

To do nothing is in everyone's power.

Original - Power - Progression

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Carl Jung

Psychiatrist, Psychoanalist, Founder of Analytical Psychology

In my case Pilgrim's Progress consisted in my having to climb down a thousand ladders until I could reach out my hand to the little clod of earth that I am.

Earth - Progression - Reaching

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Martin Luther King, Jr.

Leader, Civil rights activist

The labor movement was the principal force that transformed misery and despair into hope and progress.

Despair - Force - Labor - Misery - Movement - Progression - Unions

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Christopher Hitchens

Author, Columnist, Essayist, Orator, Journalist, Social Critic

Unlike other countries, it was founded on written proclamations. America is an ideal as well as a republic. Its documents are open to revisions. They're works in progress. There's an invitation to participate.

Countries - Progression - Wellness - Writing

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Frederick Douglass

Social Reformer, Author, Editor, Statesman

If there is no struggle, there is no progress....This struggle may be a moral one; or it may be a physical one; or it may be both moral and physical; but it must be a struggle. Power concedes nothing without a demand. It never did and it never will.

Demanding - Morals - Progression

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Ralph Waldo Emerson

Essayist, Lecturer, Philosopher, Poet

One of the illusions of life is that the present hour is not the critical decisive hour. Write it on your heart that every day is the best day of the year. He only is right who owns the day, and no one owns the day who allows it to be invaded by worry, fret and anxiety. Finish every day, and be done with it. You have done what you could.

Worrying

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Tony Robbins

Actor, Author, Author

I always tell people happiness comes in one word: progress. I don't care what you achieve.

Achievement - Care - People - Progression

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Franklin D. Roosevelt

Former President of the United States

There can be little doubt that in many ways the story of bridge building is the story of civilisation. By it we can readily measure an important part of a people's progress.

Progression - Story

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Paramahansa Yogananda

Scientist, Leader, Guru

Each time a swarm of worries invades your mind, refuse to be affected; wait calmly, while seeking the remedy. Spray the worries with the powerful chemical of your peace.

Chemistry - Mindset - Refuse - Remedy - Waiting - Worrying

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Deepak Chopra

Author, Public Speaker, Alternative Medicine Advocate

Whatever you are passionate about, there is some skill associated with it and there's some service associated with it. Go for it, and don't worry about the money all the time.

Worrying

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H. L. Mencken

Journalist, Cultural Critic

Change is not progress.

Progression

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Samuel Johnson

Writer, Poet, Lexicographer

There is little peace or comfort in life if we are always anxious as to future events. He that worries himself with the dread of possible contingencies will never be at rest.

Anticipation - Anxiety - Comfort - Dread - Events - Future - Life - Peace - Worrying

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