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Progress Quotes
"Competition is not only the basis of protection to the consumer, but is the incentive to progress."
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"We pride ourselves as being top, really, on the African ladder... We feel that we have actually been advancing rather than going backwards."
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"You are slowly developing some multinationals of your own. We certainly hope that some of them will look in this direction when they look for opportunities because the progress of Southeast Asia is important to China, just as China's progress is important to us."
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"Every day we make more progress toward understanding the concert hall."
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"Progress imposes not only new possibilities for the future but new restrictions."
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"I am a Republican, a black, dyed in the wool Republican, and I never intend to belong to any other party than the party of freedom and progress."
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"Well, the important message that we've always carried to China is that we look forward to your progress and prosperity, we look forward to you playing a role in the progress and prosperity of this region and we look forward to stability in your relations with others."
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"Teach thy tongue to say 'I do not know,' and thou shalt progress."
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"The characteristic of scientific progress is our knowing that we did not know."
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"Even as we ought to accept that each country would progress with a different method and speed toward that goal, the standard for the expected end-state should not be lowered."
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"When you reach the end of your rope, tie a knot in it and hang on."
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"The Democratic Party is on the move across the country. Voters are responding to our message of progress and fiscal responsibility."
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"True progress quietly and persistently moves along without notice."
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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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"Progress is man's ability to complicate simplicity."
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"We cannot seek achievement for ourselves and forget about progress and prosperity for our community... Our ambitions must be broad enough to include the aspirations and needs of others, for their sakes and for our own."
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"The chief obstacle to the progress of the human race is the human race."
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"Progress is what happens when impossibility yields to necessity."
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"I think we had made some tremendous progress in the six months before I left."
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"Progress is the attraction that moves humanity."
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"Technological progress has merely provided us with more efficient means for going backwards."
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"Doubt, the essential preliminary of all improvement and discovery, must accompany the stages of man's onward progress. The faculty of doubting and questioning, without which those of comparison and judgment would be useless, is itself a divine prerogative of the reason."
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"Progress was all right. Only it went on too long."
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"The liberty of the individual is a necessary postulate of human progress."
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"The test of our progress is not whether we add more to the abundance of those who have much it is whether we provide enough for those who have little."
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"Literature is at once the cause and the effect of social progress."
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"Today, the notion of progress in a single line without goal or limit seems perhaps the most parochial notion of a very parochial century."
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"Even IBM can't stand in the way of progress... for more than a decade."
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"Conceit is an insuperable obstacle to all progress."
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"I have suggested that scientific progress requires a favorable environment."
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"There is progress taking place, growth is better. We're only talking about two years there."
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"We can create a different future - one simple, beautifully mundane, daily decision at a time."
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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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"I was taught that the way of progress was neither swift nor easy."
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"I recorded harp first or singing first. I recorded it all together. Part of the reason is that I don't know how to play the songs without also singing. I forget how they progress. I don't think that any of them are verse, chorus, verse, and so on. They are not simple."
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