"Social movements are at once the symptoms and the instruments of progress. Ignore them and statesmanship is irrelevant; fail to use them and it is weak."

Progress, Statesmanship

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"Social movements are at once the symptoms and the instruments of progress. Ignore them and statesmanship is irrelevant; fail to use them and it is weak."

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"Unquestionably, there is progress. The average American now pays out twice as much in taxes as he formerly got in wages."

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"Change is a quintessential element of progress. Without change, progress is non-existent."

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"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."

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"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."

Barack Obama, American President

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"Mark the spirit of invention everywhere, thy rapid patents, Thy continual workshops, foundries, risen or rising, See, from their chimneys how the tall flame-fires stream."

Walt Whitman, American Poet

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

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

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"The progress of the world can certainly never come at all save by the modified action of the individual beings who compose the world."

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

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"It is perfectly true that that government is best which governs least. It is equally true that that government is best which provides most."

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"The final test of a leader is that he leaves behind him in other men the conviction and the will to carry on."

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"It requires wisdom to understand wisdom: the music is nothing if the audience is deaf."

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"Where all men think alike, no one thinks very much."

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"The time has come to stop beating our heads against stone walls under the illusion that we have been appointed policeman to the human race."

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