Quotes: progress
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All progress is precarious, and the solution of one problem brings us face to face with another problem.
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And so our goal on health care is, if we can get, instead of health care costs going up 6 percent a year, it's going up at the level of inflation, maybe just slightly above inflation, we've made huge progress. And by the way, that is the single most important thing we could do in terms of reducing our deficit. That's why we did it.
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Each year on the anniversary of Martin Luther King Jr.'s birth, America has the opportunity to reflect on our nation's progress towards the realization of his dream.
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Economic progress, in capitalist society, means turmoil.
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Nothing recedes like progress.
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Progress has not followed a straight ascending line, but a spiral with rhythms of progress and retrogression, of evolution and dissolution.
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Progress is not an illusion, it happens, but it is slow and invariably disappointing.
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A party of order or stability, and a party of progress or reform, are both necessary elements of a healthy state of political life.
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A person with half volition goes backwards and forwards, but makes no progress on even the smoothest of roads.
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A process which led from the amoebae to man appeared to the philosophers to be obviously a progress - though whether the amoebae would agree with this opinion is not known.
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Action and reaction, ebb and flow, trial and error, change - this is the rhythm of living. Out of our over-confidence, fear; out of our fear, clearer vision, fresh hope. And out of hope, progress.
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All our progress is an unfolding, like a vegetable bud. You have first an instinct, then an opinion, then a knowledge as the plant has root, bud, and fruit. Trust the instinct to the end, though you can render no reason.
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All progress depends on the unreasonable man.
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All progress has resulted from people who took unpopular positions.
Source: Speech Princeton University, "The Educated Citizen" (22 march 1954) -
All progress is based upon a universal innate desire on the part of every organism to live beyond its income.
