"Only by our positive thinking, by our bringing the positive qualities of others to the fore, will this world be able to make progress."
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"Prejudice exists and probably will continue to `but we have tried to make progress and we are making progress. We are not going to accept the status quo.'"
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"Don't ever confuse motion with progress."
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"The history of life is a tale of decimation and later stabilization of few surviving anatomies, not a story of steady expansion and progress."
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"Each worldview was a cultural product, but evolution is true and separate creation is not. [...] Worldviews are social constructions, and they channel the search for facts. But facts are found and knowledge progresses, however fitfully. Fact and theory are intertwined, and all great scientists understand the interaction."
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"World views are social constructions and they channel the search for facts. But facts are found and knowledge progresses, however fitfully."
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"If it is not a mess, it is not progress."
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"Run your own race. Who cares what others are doing? The only question that matters is 'Am I progressing?'"
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"Slow, steady progress is better than fast, daily excuses."
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"The societies which have achieved the most spectacular broad-based economic progress in the shortest period of time are not the most tightly controlled, not necessarily the biggest in size, or the wealthiest in natural resources. No, what unites them all is their willingness to believe in the magic of the marketplace."
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"Everything progresses in waves. The march of civilization, the progression of worlds, is in waves. All human activities likewise progress in waves - art, literature, science, religion."
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"According to the history of human progress, it is disobedience to nature that has constituted that progress."
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"Do you think there is any other means of achieving progress except through Rajas?"
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"We shall progress inch by inch."
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"The Indian mythology has a theory of cycles, that all progression is in the form of waves."
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"The progress of the world means more enjoyment and more misery too."
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"We know there is no progress in a straight line."
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"All manifest life seems to require a period of sleep, of calm, in which to gain added strength, renewed vigour, for the next manifestation, or awakening to activity. Thus is the march of all progress, of all manifest life - in waves, successive waves, [of] activity and repose. Waves succeed each other in an endless chain of progression."
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"Chemistry ceases to improve when one element is found from which all others are deductible. Physics ceases to progress when one force is found of which all others are manifestations. So religion ceases to progress when unity is reached, which is the case with Hinduism."
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"All growth, progress, well - being, or degradation is but relative."
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