The concept of progress acts as a protective mechanism to shield us from the terrors of the future.
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Dune
by
Frank Herbert
"Men get tired of everything, of heaven no less than of hell; and that all history is nothing but a record of the oscillations of the world between these two extremes. An epoch is but a swing of the pendulum; and each generation thinks the world is progressing because it is always moving."
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Man And Superman
by
George Bernard Shaw
Progress was a labyrinth . . . people plunging blindly in and then rushing wildly back, shouting that they had found it.
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This Side of Paradise
by
F. Scott Fitzgerald
"Discontent is the first step in the progress of a man or a nation."
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A Woman of No Importance
by
Oscar Wilde