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Progress Quotes
"In the progress of personality, first comes a declaration of independence, then a recognition of interdependence."
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"If human beings were really progressive creatures, then all boys would be smarter, healthier, and, wealthier, than their grandfathers."
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"The human mind always makes progress, but it is a progress in spirals."
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"Economic advance is not the same thing as human progress."
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"The future was getting here faster than I'd expected."
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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."
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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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"Literature is at once the cause and the effect of social progress."
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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."
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"Human improvement is from within outward."
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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 have suggested that scientific progress requires a favorable environment."
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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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"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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"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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"Even IBM can't stand in the way of progress... for more than a decade."
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"Horses and mules, and even sail cars, made more rapid progress than did the earliest locomotive."
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"There is progress taking place, growth is better. We're only talking about two years there."
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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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"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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"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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"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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"Disapproval is a very important factor in all progress. There has really never been any progress without it."
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"The world has been gradually reducing its nuclear arsenals. Testing must stop so that progress on the destruction of nuclear weapons may begin."
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"Conceit is an insuperable obstacle to all progress."
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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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"The progress of an artist is a continual self-sacrifice, a continual extinction of personality."
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"A single breaker may recede; but the tide is evidently coming in."
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"We can create a different future - one simple, beautifully mundane, daily decision at a time."
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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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"The slogan of progress is changing from the full dinner pail to the full garage."
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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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"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 progress of a nation is intricately linked to the empowerment and education of its citizens."
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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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"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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