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"Competition is not only the basis of protection to the consumer, but is the incentive to progress."
Herbert Hoover
"Competition is not only the basis of protection to the consumer, but is the incentive to progress."
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"We pride ourselves as being top, really, on the African ladder... We feel that we have actually been advancing rather than going backwards."
Robert Mugabe
"We pride ourselves as being top, really, on the African ladder... We feel that we have actually been advancing rather than going backwards."
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"You are slowly developing some multinationals of your own. We certainly hope that some of them will look in this direction when they look for opportunities because the progress of Southeast Asia is important to China, just as China's progress is important to us."
Sellapan Ramanathan
"You are slowly developing some multinationals of your own. We certainly hope that some of them will look in this direction when they look for opportunities because the progress of Southeast Asia is important to China, just as China's progress is important to us."
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"Every day we make more progress toward understanding the concert hall."
Esa-Pekka Salonen
"Every day we make more progress toward understanding the concert hall."
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"Progress lies not in enhancing what is, but in advancing toward what will be."
Kahlil Gibran
"Progress lies not in enhancing what is, but in advancing toward what will be."
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"I am a Republican, a black, dyed in the wool Republican, and I never intend to belong to any other party than the party of freedom and progress."
Frederick Douglass
"I am a Republican, a black, dyed in the wool Republican, and I never intend to belong to any other party than the party of freedom and progress."
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"Well, the important message that we've always carried to China is that we look forward to your progress and prosperity, we look forward to you playing a role in the progress and prosperity of this region and we look forward to stability in your relations with others."
Sellapan Ramanathan
"Well, the important message that we've always carried to China is that we look forward to your progress and prosperity, we look forward to you playing a role in the progress and prosperity of this region and we look forward to stability in your relations with others."
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"Progress imposes not only new possibilities for the future but new restrictions."
Norbert Wiener
"Progress imposes not only new possibilities for the future but new restrictions."
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"Once serious political dialogue has begun, the international community can assume that we have achieved genuine progress along the road to real democratisation."
Daw Aung San Suu Kyi
"Once serious political dialogue has begun, the international community can assume that we have achieved genuine progress along the road to real democratisation."
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"The Democratic Party is on the move across the country. Voters are responding to our message of progress and fiscal responsibility."
Joe Andrew
"The Democratic Party is on the move across the country. Voters are responding to our message of progress and fiscal responsibility."
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"Teach thy tongue to say 'I do not know,' and thou shalt progress."
Maimonides
"Teach thy tongue to say 'I do not know,' and thou shalt progress."
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"One can not impede scientific progress."
Mahmoud Ahmadinejad
"One can not impede scientific progress."
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"The characteristic of scientific progress is our knowing that we did not know."
Gaston Bachelard
"The characteristic of scientific progress is our knowing that we did not know."
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"Another symptom of progress toward the Singularity: ideas themselves should spread ever faster, and even the most radical will quickly become commonplace."
Vernor Vinge
"Another symptom of progress toward the Singularity: ideas themselves should spread ever faster, and even the most radical will quickly become commonplace."
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"Even as we ought to accept that each country would progress with a different method and speed toward that goal, the standard for the expected end-state should not be lowered."
Recep Tayyip Erdogan
"Even as we ought to accept that each country would progress with a different method and speed toward that goal, the standard for the expected end-state should not be lowered."
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"Today's mighty oak is just yesterday's nut, that held its ground."
David Icke
"Today's mighty oak is just yesterday's nut, that held its ground."
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"The country that is more developed industrially only shows, to the less developed, the image of its own future."
Karl Marx
"The country that is more developed industrially only shows, to the less developed, the image of its own future."
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"True progress quietly and persistently moves along without notice."
Saint Francis de Sales
"True progress quietly and persistently moves along without notice."
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"When you reach the end of your rope, tie a knot in it and hang on."
Thomas Jefferson
"When you reach the end of your rope, tie a knot in it and hang on."
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"In my case Pilgrim's Progress consisted in my having to climb down a thousand ladders until I could reach out my hand to the little clod of earth that I am."
Carl Jung
"In my case Pilgrim's Progress consisted in my having to climb down a thousand ladders until I could reach out my hand to the little clod of earth that I am."
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"I think we had made some tremendous progress in the six months before I left."
Jeffrey Skilling
"I think we had made some tremendous progress in the six months before I left."
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"You don't make progress by standing on the sidelines, whimpering and complaining. You make progress by implementing ideas."
Shirley Chisholm
"You don't make progress by standing on the sidelines, whimpering and complaining. You make progress by implementing ideas."
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"How wonderful that we have met with a paradox. Now we have some hope of making progress."
Niels Bohr
"How wonderful that we have met with a paradox. Now we have some hope of making progress."
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"In order to make further progress, particularly in the field of cosmic rays, it will be necessary to apply all our resources and apparatus simultaneously and side-by-side; an effort which has not yet been made, or at least, only to a limited extent."
Victor Francis Hess
"In order to make further progress, particularly in the field of cosmic rays, it will be necessary to apply all our resources and apparatus simultaneously and side-by-side; an effort which has not yet been made, or at least, only to a limited extent."
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"The chief obstacle to the progress of the human race is the human race."
Don Marquis
"The chief obstacle to the progress of the human race is the human race."
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"Progress is what happens when impossibility yields to necessity."
Arnold H. Glasow
"Progress is what happens when impossibility yields to necessity."
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"Progress is man's ability to complicate simplicity."
Thor Heyerdahl
"Progress is man's ability to complicate simplicity."
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"Is it progress if a cannibal uses a fork?"
Stanislaw Lec
"Is it progress if a cannibal uses a fork?"
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"The liberty of the individual is a necessary postulate of human progress."
Ernest Renan
"The liberty of the individual is a necessary postulate of human progress."
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"On what can we now place our hopes of solving the many riddles which still exist as to the origin and composition of cosmic rays? It must be emphasized here above all that to attain really decisive progress greater funds must be made available."
Victor Francis Hess
"On what can we now place our hopes of solving the many riddles which still exist as to the origin and composition of cosmic rays? It must be emphasized here above all that to attain really decisive progress greater funds must be made available."
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"Progress was all right. Only it went on too long."
James Thurber
"Progress was all right. Only it went on too long."
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"I recorded harp first or singing first. I recorded it all together. Part of the reason is that I don't know how to play the songs without also singing. I forget how they progress. I don't think that any of them are verse, chorus, verse, and so on. They are not simple."
Joanna Newsom
"I recorded harp first or singing first. I recorded it all together. Part of the reason is that I don't know how to play the songs without also singing. I forget how they progress. I don't think that any of them are verse, chorus, verse, and so on. They are not simple."
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"Semantics, or the study of meaning, remained undeveloped, while phonetics made rapid progress and even came to occupy the central place in the scientific study of language."
Roman Jakobson
"Semantics, or the study of meaning, remained undeveloped, while phonetics made rapid progress and even came to occupy the central place in the scientific study of language."
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"The world has always gone through periods of madness so as to advance a bit on the road to reason."
Hermann Broch
"The world has always gone through periods of madness so as to advance a bit on the road to reason."
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"Progress is the attraction that moves humanity."
Marcus Garvey
"Progress is the attraction that moves humanity."
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"Modern invention has banished the spinning wheel, and the same law of progress makes the woman of today a different woman from her grandmother."
Susan B. Anthony
"Modern invention has banished the spinning wheel, and the same law of progress makes the woman of today a different woman from her grandmother."
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"I was taught that the way of progress was neither swift nor easy."
Marie Curie
"I was taught that the way of progress was neither swift nor easy."
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"Well, one thing that has happened is they have had a presidential election in Egypt which has represented progress. Now, we were not happy with everything that happened with the parliamentary elections, and it was not exactly a perfect presidential election in Egypt."
Roger Wicker
"Well, one thing that has happened is they have had a presidential election in Egypt which has represented progress. Now, we were not happy with everything that happened with the parliamentary elections, and it was not exactly a perfect presidential election in Egypt."
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"Let the gentle bush dig its root deep and spread upward to split the boulder."
Carl Sandburg
"Let the gentle bush dig its root deep and spread upward to split the boulder."
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"We cannot seek achievement for ourselves and forget about progress and prosperity for our community... Our ambitions must be broad enough to include the aspirations and needs of others, for their sakes and for our own."
Cesar Chavez
"We cannot seek achievement for ourselves and forget about progress and prosperity for our community... Our ambitions must be broad enough to include the aspirations and needs of others, for their sakes and for our own."
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"The greatest enemy of progress is not stagnation, but false progress."
Sydney J. Harris
"The greatest enemy of progress is not stagnation, but false progress."
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"There is no greater impediment to progress in the sciences than the desire to see it take place too quickly."
Georg C. Lichtenberg
"There is no greater impediment to progress in the sciences than the desire to see it take place too quickly."
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"Even IBM can't stand in the way of progress... for more than a decade."
Craig Bruce
"Even IBM can't stand in the way of progress... for more than a decade."
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"All things can be forgiven if we can progress."
Cat Stevens
"All things can be forgiven if we can progress."
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"Problems are the price of progress. Don't bring me anything but trouble. Good news weakens me."
Charles Kettering
"Problems are the price of progress. Don't bring me anything but trouble. Good news weakens me."
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"The test of our progress is not whether we add more to the abundance of those who have much it is whether we provide enough for those who have little."
Franklin D. Roosevelt
"The test of our progress is not whether we add more to the abundance of those who have much it is whether we provide enough for those who have little."
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"Nothing recedes like progress."
e. e. cummings
"Nothing recedes like progress."
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"The progress in Iraq has not been without cost."
Virgil Goode
"The progress in Iraq has not been without cost."
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"We have stabilized our economy. We took over a very sick economy, and we were hemorrhaging 750,000 jobs a month. We have stopped the hemorrhaging. In fact, we had 140,000 job growth last month. And that's what I call progress."
Jim Clyburn
"We have stabilized our economy. We took over a very sick economy, and we were hemorrhaging 750,000 jobs a month. We have stopped the hemorrhaging. In fact, we had 140,000 job growth last month. And that's what I call progress."
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"If human beings were really progressive creatures, then all boys would be smarter, healthier, and, wealthier, than their grandfathers."
Mokokoma Mokhonoana
"If human beings were really progressive creatures, then all boys would be smarter, healthier, and, wealthier, than their grandfathers."
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