"There is implanted in every man, naturally, a strong desire for progress."
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"The progress of the world through all its evils making it fit for the ideals, slowly but surely."
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"All progress and power are already in every man; perfection is man's nature, only it is barred in and prevented from taking its proper course."
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"I do not believe in eternal progress, that we are growing on ever and ever in a straight line. It is too nonsensical to believe. There is no motion in a straight line. A straight line infinitely projected becomes a circle. The force sent out will complete the circle and return to its starting place."
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"Look not back. No, not even if you see the dearest and nearest cry. Look not back, but forward. We cannot stop. If we stop we die. We have either to go forward or to go backward. We have either to progress or to degenerate."
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"May blessings and happiness attend every step of your progress in this world."
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"Language is the chief means and index of a nation's progress."
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"All real progress must be slow."
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"All progression is in the relative world."
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"We have either to progress or to degenerate. Our ancestors did great things in the past, but we have to grow into a fuller life and march beyond even their great achievements."
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"I didn't take a job on Fox News because I'm interested in progress. I'm interested in shouting and pointing and simplifying things!"
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"The natural law is an instrument for progress, not a weapon of revolution."
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"Suffering will always be there. You'll always have the poor. You have to own your own progress. It is true that because of the economy and the fear factor the president [Barack Obama] is able to execute a lot of promises that it would be difficult to deliver it not for the fear factor. It's funny. He's delivering on what he promised and we call it fear."
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"And what is happy? It is a going always on. There is something better to be done than I have done, and spurred by the fair delusion of progress, I will seek to progress, to whip myself on, to more and more- to learning. Always."
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"The turtle only makes progress when it's neck is stuck out."
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"Horses frighten me as much as chickens do,’ he said. ‘That is too bad, because lack of communication with horses has impeded human progress,’ said Abrenuncio. ‘If we ever broke down the barriers, we could produce the centaur."
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"He thought that the world would make more rapid progress without the burden of old people."
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"We shall make progress towards Swaraj only if we do everything thoughtfully and with understanding."
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"Truth should be the very breath of our life. When once this state in the pilgrim's progress is reached, all other rules of correct living will come without any effort, and obedience to them will be instinctive."
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"Disorder and violence are, in fact, things that might check the pace of India's progress."
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