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Progress Quotes
"I am opposed to the laying down of rules or conditions to be observed in the construction of bridges lest the progress of improvement tomorrow might be embarrassed or shackled by recording or registering as law the prejudices or errors of today."
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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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"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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"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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"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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"Progress is not one of those floating comparatives, so beloved of our friends in advertising, we need a context, a perspective. What are we better than? Who are we better than? Examine this statement: Most people are better off. Financially? socially? educationally? medically? spiritually? I dare not ask if you are happy? Are you happy?"
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"The price of progress is trouble, and I must be making a lot of progress."
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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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"As we consider the fast pace of scientific and technological progress in our modern world, we must not lose our moral compass and give way to 'free market eugenics'."
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"Progressivism is the cancer in America and it is eating our Constitution, and it was designed to eat the Constitution, to progress past the Constitution."
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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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"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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"Technological progress has merely provided us with more efficient means for going backwards."
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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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"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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"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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"Challenge yourself everyday to do better and be better. Remember, growth starts with a decision to move beyond your present circumstances."
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"Great progress was made when arbitration treaties were concluded in which the contracting powers pledge in advance to submit all conflicts to an arbitration court, treaties which not only specify the composition of the court, but also its procedure."
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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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"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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"If there is no struggle, there is no progress."
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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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"While the United States has largely been missing in action from the diplomatic game, the European Union and Iran have been making progress at developing a formula that would lead to the suspension of Iran's nuclear enrichment program and the start of serious negotiations."
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"I have always believed that 98% of a student's progress is due to his own efforts, and 2% to his teacher."
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"Progress is not an illusion, it happens, but it is slow and invariably disappointing."
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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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"One of the lies that we tell ourselves is that we're making progress; but Huey's chair's empty."
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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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"Social advance depends as much upon the process through which it is secured as upon the result itself."
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"Existence of an excited state is not a prerequisite for the production of inhibition; inhibition can exist apart from excitation no less than, when called forth against an excitation already in progress, it can suppress or moderate it."
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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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"You can't sit on the lid of progress. If you do, you will be blown to pieces."
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"First, we have to lower our costs to levels that are more competitive. This will prevent the lower-cost airlines from pushing us out of the markets we want to serve. We've made great progress on this front, but we need to keep pushing."
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