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Progress Quotes
"The progress of an artist is a continual self-sacrifice, a continual extinction of personality."
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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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"You don't make progress by standing on the sidelines, whimpering and complaining. You make progress by implementing ideas."
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"Even IBM can't stand in the way of progress... for more than a decade."
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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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"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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"The slogan of progress is changing from the full dinner pail to the full garage."
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"The liberty of the individual is a necessary postulate of human progress."
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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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"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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"My progress was rendered delightful by the sylvan elegance of the groves, chearful meadows, and high distant forests, which in grand order presented themselves to view."
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"In the progress of personality, first comes a declaration of independence, then a recognition of interdependence."
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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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"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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"Sorry Day falls on the eve of Reconciliation Week, giving us the chance to ask whether we are making progress in the wider challenge of reconciling Indigenous and other Australians."
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"Maybe the preoccupation with technological progress has overshadowed our concern with human progress."
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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."
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"A great gulf, however, has been opened between man's material advance and his social and moral progress, a gulf in which he may one day be lost if it is not closed or narrowed."
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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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"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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"Not to say that corporations are perfect today, but even grand corporations like Dupont have made immense progress in translating some of their past environmentally damaging practices into new profit opportunities."
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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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"So we are now still dependent on foreign oil, have a problem with global warming, and are losing jobs rapidly to the Japanese in fuel-efficient vehicles as a result of that very shortsighted progress."
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"We can create a different future - one simple, beautifully mundane, daily decision at a time."
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"There was the scientific and technical progress which couldn't be predicted by the state."
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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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"Human improvement is from within outward."
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"If we do not step forward, then we step back. If we do not protect a right, then we deny it."
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"Seeing the rebirth of the Delaware Estuary as a valuable natural resource is certainly encouraging, and I am encouraged not just by the progress made in the Delaware Estuary but in estuaries throughout the country."
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"If you are going to be progressive, then you have to make progress. And that sometimes depends on breaking a few legs."
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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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"With impressive proof on all sides of magnificent progress, no one can rightly deny the fundamental correctness of our economic system."
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"Soaring is in stages, it progresses as you engage in the very art."
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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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"The real spiritual progress of the aspirant is measured by the extent to which he achieves inner tranquility."
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"Literature is at once the cause and the effect of social progress."
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"During the past three years spectacular progress has been made in increasing wheat, rice, and maize production in several of the most populous developing countries of southern Asia, where widespread famine appeared inevitable only five years ago."
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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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