Progress has not followed a straight ascending line, but a spiral with rhythms of progress and retrogression, of evolution and dissolution. (Johann Wolfgang von Goethe)

Progress has not followed a straight ascending line, but a spiral with rhythms of progress and retrogression, of evolution and dissolution.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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