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Progress Quotes
"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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"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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"We pray that henceforth not only Japan but all mankind may know the blessings of harmony and progress."
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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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"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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"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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"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 slogan of progress is changing from the full dinner pail to the full garage."
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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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"The human mind always makes progress, but it is a progress in spirals."
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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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"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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"Conceit is an insuperable obstacle to all progress."
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"An age cannot bind itself and ordain to put the succeeding one into such a condition that it cannot extend its (at best very occasional) knowledge , purify itself of errors, and progress in general enlightenment. That would be a crime against human nature, the proper destination of which lies precisely in this progress and the descendants would be fully justified in rejecting those decrees as having been made in an unwarranted and malicious manner.."
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"I have suggested that scientific progress requires a favorable environment."
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"Soaring is in stages, it progresses as you engage in the very art."
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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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"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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"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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"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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"You see, greatness for a state doesn't require some huge monument for all to see. It is not a journey to a particular destination - but a commitment to follow a course of constant and never-ending improvement."
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"Even IBM can't stand in the way of progress... for more than a decade."
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"We feel good about our running backs as we have them right now, and we will continue to see how they progress."
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"Human improvement is from within outward."
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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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"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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"There is progress taking place, growth is better. We're only talking about two years there."
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"Technological progress has merely provided us with more efficient means for going backwards."
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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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"The future was getting here faster than I'd expected."
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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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"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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"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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"Economic advance is not the same thing as human progress."
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"The public is mad, frustrated, but what the public wants is progress."
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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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"Disapproval is a very important factor in all progress. There has really never been any progress without it."
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"In the light of the actual fighting that is now in progress, we have reached the point where the military considerations clearly outweigh the fiscal considerations."
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