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Progress Quotes
"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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"Soaring is in stages, it progresses as you engage in the very art."
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"A single breaker may recede; but the tide is evidently coming in."
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"The real spiritual progress of the aspirant is measured by the extent to which he achieves inner tranquility."
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"Maybe the preoccupation with technological progress has overshadowed our concern with human progress."
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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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"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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"One day's delay is another day's lack of progress."
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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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"Progress might have been alright once, but it has gone on too long."
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"No individual is alone responsible for a single stepping stone along the path of progress, and where the path is smooth progress is most rapid."
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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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"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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"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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"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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"Technological progress has merely provided us with more efficient means for going backwards."
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"Advertising as the printed form of selling would seem... ultimately to be justified in so far as it serves as a means of increasing legitimate human wants, as an agency of fair and economic competition in the distribution of goods, and as a stimulant to social progress."
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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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"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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"Social advance depends as much upon the process through which it is secured as upon the result itself."
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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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"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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"What we call progress is the exchange of one nuisance for another nuisance."
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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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"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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"Progress is the injustice each generation commits with regard to its predecessors."
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"From the very commencement the student should set out to witness the progress and effects of sickness and ought to persevere in the daily observation of disease during the whole period of his studies."
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"The public is mad, frustrated, but what the public wants is 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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"In the post-9/11 world you cannot give him the benefit of the doubt. As a result of our going into Iraq, not only is Saddam Hussein gone, but Qaddafi has given up his weapons of mass destruction and tremendous progress is being made in Iraq."
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"We set sail on this new sea because there is new knowledge to be gained, and new rights to be won, and they must be won and used for the progress of all people. For space science, like nuclear science and technology, has no conscience of its own. Whether it will become a force for good or ill depends on man, and only if the United States occupies a position of preeminence can we help decide whether this new ocean will be a sea of peace or a new terrifying theater of war."
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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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"The progress of evolution from President Washington to President Grant was alone evidence to upset Darwin."
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