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Progress Quotes
"The public is mad, frustrated, but what the public wants is progress."
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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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"It would not be foolish to contemplate the possibility of a far greater progress still."
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"Used to the conditions of a capitalistic environment, the average American takes it for granted that every year business makes something new and better accessible to him. Looking backward upon the years of his own life, he realizes that many implements that were totally unknown in the days of his youth and many others which at that time could be enjoyed only by a small minority are now standard equipment of almost every household. He is fully confident that this trend will prevail also in the future. He simply calls it the American way of life and does not give serious thought to the question of what made this continuous improvement in the supply of material goods possible."
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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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"Without a struggle, there can be no 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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"Progress is the injustice each generation commits with regard to its predecessors."
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"The future was getting here faster than I'd expected."
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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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"Stem cell research can revolutionize medicine, more than anything since antibiotics."
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"A single breaker may recede; but the tide is evidently coming in."
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"Substantial progress toward better things can rarely be taken without developing new evils requiring new remedies."
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"What we need in America is a renaissance. We need to go forward by going backward."
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"Because that's just the way it is, and don't sleep on what you did before, you know, because it can... not hurt you, but you can find yourself sleeping on something that happened in the past, but you dare to progress and there is always room for progression."
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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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"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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"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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"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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"Future orientation is combined with a notion and expectation of progress, and nothing is impossible."
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"The price of progress is trouble, and I must be making a lot of progress."
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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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"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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"What we call progress is the exchange of one nuisance for another nuisance."
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"One day's delay is another day's lack of progress."
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"The progress of the natural sciences in modern times has of course so much exceeded all expectations that any suggestion that there may be some limits to it is bound to arouse suspicion."
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"Technological progress has merely provided us with more efficient means for going backwards."
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"If workmen are denied any increase in real wages and they can look forward only to a better standard of living through reduction of prices, progress for them is terribly slow, and they become impatient and dissatisfied."
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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 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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"Confirming John Roberts would endanger much of the progress made by the nation in civil rights over the past half century."
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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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"The progress of evolution from President Washington to President Grant was alone evidence to upset Darwin."
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