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Progress Quotes
"One of the lies that we tell ourselves is that we're making progress; but Huey's chair's empty."
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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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"I was in New York. Hitchcock was in California. He rang me to make a report on his progress and said, I'm having trouble. I've just sacked my second screenwriter."
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"Fundamental progress has to do with the reinterpretation of basic ideas."
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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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"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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"In the span of my own lifetime I observed such wondrous progress in plant evolution that I look forward optimistically to a healthy, happy world as soon as its children are taught the principles of simple and rational living."
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"There is progress whether ye are going forward or backward! The thing is to move!"
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"Franklin Roosevelt said the test of our progress is not whether we add more to the abundance to those who have much; it is whether we provide enough to those who have too little. This reconciliation package fails that test as well."
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"I wouldn't call it radical; I would call it enthusiasm for progress."
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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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"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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"Unwavering incremental change can create remarkable and monumental results."
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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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"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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"In addition, we were unable to meet openly to discuss the progress of the book, for we were both on the list of persons banned from communicating with other banned persons."
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"Social movements are at once the symptoms and the instruments of progress. Ignore them and statesmanship is irrelevant; fail to use them and it is weak."
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"Optimism is essential to achievement and it is also the foundation of courage and true progress."
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"Neither an ox nor a donkey is able to stop the progress of socialism."
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"What progress we are making. In the Middle Ages they would have burned me. Now they are content with burning my books."
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"The responsibility to shape the destiny of a nation rests on the shoulders of its citizens; each one contributing to the collective progress."
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"Iteration, like friction, is likely to generate heat instead of progress."
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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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"In any case, whenever technical progress opened a new window into the surrounding world, I felt the urge to look through this window, hoping to see something unexpected."
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"To ENSURE greater success, celebrate your progess daily."
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"But with the slow menace of a glacier, depression came on. No one had any measure of its progress; no one had any plan for stopping it. Everyone tried to get out of its way."
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"On every front there are clear answers out there that can make this country stronger, but we're going to break through the fear and the frustration people are feeling. Our job is to make sure that even as we make progress, that we are also giving people a sense of hope and vision for the future."
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"It took us years to get into the mess that we got ourselves in at the end of 2008, and it's going to take a while to get us out. We lost eight million jobs, we saw a financial system near collapse, we have a continuing housing crisis that we're making progress on dealing with."
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"Adapting to changes represents an important characteristic of human nature, essential for the development of human society."
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"Progress means getting nearer to the place you want to be. And if you have taken a wrong turning, then to go forward does not get you any nearer.If you are on the wrong road, progress means doing an about-turn and walking back to the right road; and in that case the man who turns back soonest is the most progressive man."
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"One common cause of this mistake of preferring to imagine and admire a great ideal instead of beginning to do little deeds is our impatience with little baby steps, our lack of humility."
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"Nothing happens until something moves."
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"Until all processes are progressed, the world will not process meaningful, measurable progress.Progress the process, in order to process, progress. This shall be the responsibility of those who are for the light of universal innovation, as opposed to the benefactors of sectarian division."
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