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Progress Quotes
"If human beings were really progressive creatures, then all boys would be smarter, healthier, and, wealthier, than their grandfathers."
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"Do a little bit more than average and from that point on our progress multiplies itself out of all proportion to the effort put in."
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"No company can afford not to move forward. It may be at the top of the heap today but at the bottom of the heap tomorrow, if it doesn't."
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"Today, the notion of progress in a single line without goal or limit seems perhaps the most parochial notion of a very parochial century."
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"The future was getting here faster than I'd expected."
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"The progress of a nation is intricately linked to the empowerment and education of its citizens."
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"In the progress of personality, first comes a declaration of independence, then a recognition of interdependence."
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"On Jan. 30, millions of Iraqis will cast ballots in the country's first fair and free election in decades, marking continued progress in Iraq's transition toward a country built on the pillars of democracy and freedom for all."
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"Believing in progress does not mean believing that any progress has yet been made."
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"The progress of an artist is a continual self-sacrifice, a continual extinction of personality."
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"There is progress taking place, growth is better. We're only talking about two years there."
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"Doubt, the essential preliminary of all improvement and discovery, must accompany the stages of man's onward progress. The faculty of doubting and questioning, without which those of comparison and judgment would be useless, is itself a divine prerogative of the reason."
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"Literature is at once the cause and the effect of social progress."
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"The progress of the American Revolution has been so rapid and such the alteration of manners, the blending of characters, and the new train of ideas that almost universally prevail, that the principles which animated to the noblest exertions have been nearly annihilated."
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"The human mind always makes progress, but it is a progress in spirals."
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"We always live in an uncertain world. What is certain is that the United States will go forward over time."
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"Conceit is an insuperable obstacle to all progress."
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"I have suggested that scientific progress requires a favorable environment."
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"No individual is alone responsible for a single stepping stone along the path of progress, and where the path is smooth progress is most rapid."
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"We pray that henceforth not only Japan but all mankind may know the blessings of harmony and progress."
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"Economic advance is not the same thing as human progress."
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"Disapproval is a very important factor in all progress. There has really never been any progress without it."
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"Horses and mules, and even sail cars, made more rapid progress than did the earliest locomotive."
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"A single breaker may recede; but the tide is evidently coming in."
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"The progress in Iraq is still fragile. And it could still be reversed. Iraq still faces innumerable challenges, and they will be evident during what will likely be a difficult process as the newly elected Council of Representatives selects the next prime minister, president, and speaker of the council."
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"There was the scientific and technical progress which couldn't be predicted by the state."
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"Fundamental progress has to do with the reinterpretation of basic ideas."
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"In the post-9/11 world you cannot give him the benefit of the doubt. As a result of our going into Iraq, not only is Saddam Hussein gone, but Qaddafi has given up his weapons of mass destruction and tremendous progress is being made in Iraq."
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"I was heartened to hear the President say that as we make progress on the ground, and Iraqi forces increasingly take the lead, we should be able to further decrease our troop levels."
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"I feel that there has been progress made since I was a boy on matters of race, but we have a long way to go."
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"The repeal of racist language in the Constitution of Alabama was and still is a necessary step in the state's ability to progress."
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"As has been pointed out with Libya, the debate over Libya, sometimes we allow diplomatic relations with imperfect regimes because progress can best be made through engagement instead of isolation."
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"Far more has been accomplished for the welfare and progress of mankind by preventing bad actions than by doing good ones."
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"We set sail on this new sea because there is new knowledge to be gained, and new rights to be won, and they must be won and used for the progress of all people. For space science, like nuclear science and technology, has no conscience of its own. Whether it will become a force for good or ill depends on man, and only if the United States occupies a position of preeminence can we help decide whether this new ocean will be a sea of peace or a new terrifying theater of war."
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"It would do the world good if every man would compel himself occasionally to be absolutely alone. Most of the world s progress has come out of such loneliness."
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"One of the remarkable things about my career is that it has been marked by steady, incremental progress. No sudden spikes up, and no sudden downfalls, either."
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"There has been a tendency through the years for reason and moderation to prevail as long as things are going tolerably well or as long as our problems seem clear and finite and manageable."
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"The real spiritual progress of the aspirant is measured by the extent to which he achieves inner tranquility."
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