"My daddy expected that my brothers and I and our generation would make the world a better place. He had lived in an America of continual social progress."

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"My daddy expected that my brothers and I and our generation would make the world a better place. He had lived in an America of continual social progress."

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

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

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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."

Avina Celeste, American Writer

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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."

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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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"Now we're in the midst of not just advocating for change, not just calling for change - we're doing the grinding, sometimes frustrating work of delivering change - inch by inch, day by day."

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"True human progress is based less on the inventive mind than on the conscience of such men as Brandeis."

Albert Einstein, German Scientist

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