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Progress Quotes
"The real spiritual progress of the aspirant is measured by the extent to which he achieves inner tranquility."
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"The slogan of progress is changing from the full dinner pail to the full garage."
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"Operation Northern Star with Canada has made significant progress in battling meth from the north, and we are engaged in numerous training opportunities in Mexico to help curb the problem from the south."
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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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"When they kept you out it was because you were black; when they let you in, it is because you are black. That's progress?"
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"Future orientation is combined with a notion and expectation of progress, and nothing is impossible."
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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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"The West hasn't reached its universal state as yet, although its close to it, but it certainly has evolved out of its warring state phase, which it was in for a couple of centuries."
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"As far as our relation to the physical world, I doubt there will be much more improvement. Our basic survival needs have been met, and much of our current progress is superfluous or downright troublesome. Most advancement is performed out of comfort rather than necessity. What we are lacking, what the world so desperately needs now, is adjustments of the mind. We need to see the world again with fresh eyes, and come to an understanding of who we are as individuals, and what drives us."
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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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"Usually, terrible things that are done with the excuse that progress requires them are not really progress at all, but just terrible things."
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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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"The present moment is nice but it does not last. Living in it is like waiting in a junction town for the morning limited; the junction may be interesting but some day you will have to leave it and you do not know where the limited will take you."
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"There is progress whether ye are going forward or backward! The thing is to move!"
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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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"Unless we practice conservation, those who come after us will have to pay the price of misery, degradation, and failure for the progress and prosperity of our day."
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"Human improvement is from within outward."
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"In the usual progress of things, the necessities of a nation in every stage of its existence will be found at least equal to its resources."
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"A nation's progress is a testament to its unity, and the discipline of its people shapes the path to prosperity."
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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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"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 more consciously democratic Americans became, however, the less they were satisfied with a conception of the Promised Land, which went no farther than a pervasive economic prosperity guaranteed by free institutions."
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"Every step of progress the world has made has been from scaffold to scaffold, and from stake to stake."
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"Progress might have been alright once, but it has gone on too long."
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"We must free ourselves of the hope that the sea will ever rest. We must learn to sail in high winds."
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"Substantial progress toward better things can rarely be taken without developing new evils requiring new remedies."
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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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"What we call progress is the exchange of one nuisance for another nuisance."
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"What progress we are making. In the Middle Ages they would have burned me. Now they are content with burning my books."
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"Progress is the injustice each generation commits with regard to its predecessors."
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"Maybe the preoccupation with technological progress has overshadowed our concern with human progress."
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"Public opinion shapes our destinies and guides the progress of human affairs."
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"I've, we have in this state, like many other states, we're experiencing an enormous budget deficit that we're trying to grapple with. But we will have progress despite the deficits."
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