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Progress Quotes
"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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"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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"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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"Soaring is in stages, it progresses as you engage in the very art."
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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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"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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"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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"It would not be foolish to contemplate the possibility of a far greater progress still."
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"The progress of evolution from President Washington to President Grant was alone evidence to upset Darwin."
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"There is progress taking place, growth is better. We're only talking about two years there."
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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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"Every step of progress the world has made has been from scaffold to scaffold, and from stake to stake."
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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 public is mad, frustrated, but what the public wants is 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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"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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"Substantial progress toward better things can rarely be taken without developing new evils requiring new remedies."
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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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"We always live in an uncertain world. What is certain is that the United States will go forward over time."
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"Future orientation is combined with a notion and expectation of progress, and nothing is impossible."
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"One day's delay is another day's lack of progress."
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"Conceit is an insuperable obstacle to all progress."
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"What we call progress is the exchange of one nuisance for another nuisance."
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"Progress comes to those who train and train; reliance on secret techniques will get you nowhere."
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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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"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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"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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"If you are not making the progress that you would like to make and are capable of making, it is simply because your goals are not clearly defined."
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"Restlessness is discontent and discontent is the first necessity of progress. Show me a thoroughly satisfied man and I will show you a failure."
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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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"I have suggested that scientific progress requires a favorable environment."
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"Progress will always have as its recourse to exaggerate what it cannot surpass."
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"That fallacy flies in the face of studies that show, every day, in every way, things are getting a little worse for America's minorities relative to the progress made by those in the top percentiles of assets and income."
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