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"Maybe the preoccupation with technological progress has overshadowed our concern with human progress."
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"Change is a quintessential element of progress. Without change, progress is non-existent."

"Progress means advancement in the path of upliftment " in the path of enlightenment " in the path of humanitarian glory."

"The best way to achieve lasting change in your life is to act slowly and persistently. Do not make radical changes in your life that you have not yet learned to maintain. Act with deliberate care and decisiveness and allow yourself to make the changes you need in your life."

"And we can see the positive impacts right here at Solyndra. Less than a year ago, we were standing on what was an empty lot. But through the Recovery Act, this company received a loan to expand its operations. This new factory is the result of those loans."

"Yearning for the seemingly impossible is the path to human progress."

"Iteration, like friction, is likely to generate heat instead of progress."

"A person who makes few mistakes makes little progress."

"True human progress is based less on the inventive mind than on the conscience of such men as Brandeis."
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"Through first-class education, a generation marches down the long uncertain road of the future with confidence."

"I feel like a lot of the fundamental material, I've assimilated. So now the question is: Am I going to really get into my spiritual inheritance of music and really develop my abilities?"

"My older brother and myself always played together in bands, but we never knew we would be professional musicians."

"When I auditioned for my high school band the band director was excited because my father was known to be a great musician. When he heard me, he said 'Are you sure you're Ellis's son?'"

"Jazz is not the kind of music you are going to learn to play in three or four years or that you can just get because you have some talent for music."

"I have absolutely no idea what my generation did to enrich our democracy. We dropped the ball. We entered a period of complacency and closed our eyes to the public corruption of our democracy."

"The musicians I respected were much older than me. I expected them to cut my head, and they did."
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