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Progress Quotes
"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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"Every step of progress the world has made has been from scaffold to scaffold, and from stake to stake."
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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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"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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"If there is no struggle, there is no progress."
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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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"It would not be foolish to contemplate the possibility of a far greater progress still."
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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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"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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"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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"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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"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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"Progress will always have as its recourse to exaggerate what it cannot surpass."
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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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"Without a struggle, there can be no progress."
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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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"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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"One of the lies that we tell ourselves is that we're making progress; but Huey's chair's empty."
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"I wouldn't call it radical; I would call it enthusiasm for progress."
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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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"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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"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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"Stem cell research can revolutionize medicine, more than anything since antibiotics."
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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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"Progress comes to those who train and train; reliance on secret techniques will get you nowhere."
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"We recognized in 1996 that, with progress in the field of genetics accelerating at a breathtaking pace, we need to ensure that advances in treatment and prevention of disease do not constitute a new basis for discrimination."
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"We can continue to try and clean up the gutters all over the world and spend all of our resources looking at just the dirty spots and trying to make them clean. Or we can lift our eyes up and look into the skies and move forward in an evolutionary way."
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"Progress is not an illusion, it happens, but it is slow and invariably disappointing."
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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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"I think we're really getting it right the last few months and hopefully we'll get better and better at it."
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"Substantial progress toward better things can rarely be taken without developing new evils requiring new remedies."
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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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