Aldous Huxley
Novelist, Essayist
"Medical science has made such tremendous progress that there is hardly a healthy human left."
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Teresa of Avila
Saint, Mystic, Writer
"The surest way to determine whether one possesses the love of God is to see whether he or she loves his or her neighbor. These two loves are never separated. Rest assured, the more you progress in love of neighbor the more your love of God will increase."
Queen Elizabeth II
Monarch
"It has been women who have breathed gentleness and care into the hard progress of humankind."
Marie Curie
Physicist, Chemist
"I was taught that the way of progress was neither swift nor easy."
Dwight D. Eisenhower
Military Leader, Politician
"Change based on principle is progress. Constant change without principle becomes chaos."
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"Progress is more plausibly judged by the reduction of deprivation than by the further enrichment of the opulent"
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"You cannot make progress with excuses."
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"The power to question is the basis of all human progress."
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"We must make progress slowly so as to preserve the progress we have already made."
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"If the ride is more fly, then you must buy."
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"The best thermometer to the progress of a nation is its treatment of its women."
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"Social progress can be measured exactly by the social position of the fair sex."
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"There can be no progress if people have no faith in tomorrow."
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"On the road from the City of Skepticism, I had to pass through the Valley of Ambiguity."
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"Whatever there be of progress in life comes not through adaptation but through daring."
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"Keep on adding, keep on walking, keep on progressing: do not delay on the road, do not go back, do not deviate."
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"A youth with wings are the assurance of our nation's future. We must start to work right away and make progress so that; if one day Westerners leave their footprints on the moon, we shall place a Turkish one among those."
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"The degree of freedom from unwanted thoughts and the degree of concentration on a single thought are the measures to gauge spiritual progress."
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"Medical science is making such remarkable progress that soon none of us will be well."
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"He who is content with what has been done is an obstacle in the path of progress."
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"Don't hurry anything. Don't worry about the future. Don't worry about what progress you're making. Just be entirely content to be aware of what is."
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"I feel that racial profiling may be a very complicated and long-standing problem. It will take a long time even to make tiny progress."
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"A thought is an idea in transit."
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"People respond in accordance to how you relate to them. If you approach them on the basis of violence, that's how they'll react. But if you say, 'We want peace, we want stability,' we can then do a lot of things that will contribute towards the progress of our society."
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"My refusing to eat meat occasioned inconveniency, and I have been frequently chided for my singularity. But my light repast allows for greater progress, for greater clearness of head and quicker comprehension."
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