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The promise of unending progress did not occur.
It is not an unthinking confidence in the human capacity for knowledge, and still less in human perfectibility and unending progress.
"Citius, altius, fortius," says the Olympic motto, but as Loland points out, the idea of unending progress risks leading sport into a bind.
Still Smith's inability to entertain the idea of her own death is an improvement on the delusion of unending progress that modernity presents.
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Global warming threatens what they hold most dear: free markets, limited government regulation and unending material progress.
It was imbued with ideas that Klein would recognise – that unending material progress had a disastrous and destructive side, especially for the poor.
But since this show was looking as if it might settle into being an unending work in progress — with Ms. Taymor playing Michelangelo to her notion of a Sistine Chapel on Broadway — my editors and I decided I might as well check out "Spider-Man" around Monday, the night it was supposed to have opened before its latest postponement.
The ratings agency cited weakening public finances, sluggish growth, unending deflation and "slow progress in addressing the bad-debt problems".
The destruction came in many forms -- the encouragement of national leaders to forsake the old and embrace the new, urban renewal projects in the name of "progress," an unending tide of litter from the inhabitants, and the sheer stress of 15 million people picking away at a city built for three million.
At the same time, Cohen's optimism was tempered by an awareness of injustice in the non-ideal world: moral progress must be unending, precisely because no actual state will ever realize the ideal completely (Schwarzschild 1979, 139 40).
Planting such seeds, we are reaping just what we are sowing: more heat than light, unending opportunities for food industry abuses, stunning lack of public health progress and the very kind of trees that make the forest impossible to see.
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