"When you pray, you are not starting the conversation from scratch, just remembering to plug back into a conversation that's always in progress."
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"The truth is that progress is usually small and sneaky."
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"I'm at my most productive before I even have my first cup of coffee. I only get slower and stupider as the day progresses."
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"Here's what you must do. It's pretty simple, really, but I didn't say easy. It's what sets those who succeed apart from those who don't: You must have a sincere and burning desire to achieve what you dream, dedicate yourself to making progress, and take control of your circumstances to change your body."
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"The more we progress the more we tend to progress. We advance not in arithmetical but in geometrical progression. We draw compound interest on the whole capital of knowledge and virtue which has been accumulated since the dawning of time."
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"The progress of life shows a man the stuff of which he is made."
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"The idea that we criminalize fellow human beings based on optics, based on the need to progress in politics and gain power, and for economic reasons and financial reasons, for financial gains, and we throw out humanization for criminalization."
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"As you get older and you progress in your career, you start to want to have more control over things and you have ideas."
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"Progress is slow, it is uneven, it is fragile and in some parts of the world it is being erased."
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"Human rebellion ends in metaphysical revolution. It progresses from appearances to acts, from the dandy to the revolutionary."
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"In nothing is there more evolution than the American mind."
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"How can the arts overcome the slow dying of men's hearts that we call progress ?"
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"Science has given to this generation the means of unlimited disaster or of unlimited progress. There will remain the greater task of directing knowledge lastingly towards the purpose of peace and human good."
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"We are not meant to find peace in this world. The spirit of life cannot exist without effort. Destroy the rivalries of man and nations and you will have destroyed all that makes for betterment and progress on Earth."
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"Unless some effective supranational government can be set up and brought quickly into action, the prospects of peace and human progress are dark and doubtful."
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"Not all change is progress."
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"The reason progress is slow is that we always expect other men to be the heroes and to live the heroic lives. But we all have hero stuff in us. In our sphere of life we can always live more heroically and triumphantly and grow in heroic stature."
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"Progress means nothing to presence."
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"No! I am not Prince Hamlet, nor was meant to be; Am an attendant lord, one that will do To swell a progress, start a scene or two, Advise the prince; no doubt, an easy tool, Deferential, glad to be of use, Politic, cautious, and meticulous; Full of high sentence, but a bit obtuse; At times, indeed, almost ridiculous— Almost, at times, the Fool."
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"We can not imitate great souls. However to study, analyse and imbibe the principles they teach and embody, is the path of progress."
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