"Mortification of the flesh has been held all the world over as a condition of spiritual progress."
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"All education in a country has got to be demonstrably in promotion of the progress of the country in which it is given."
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"Civilizations have come and gone and, in spite of our vaunted progress, I am tempted to ask again and again, 'To what purpose?'"
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"If we are to make progress, we must not repeat history but make new history. We must add to inheritance left by our ancestors."
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"A nation that is capable of limitless sacrifice is capable of rising to limitless heights. The purer the sacrifice the quicker the progress."
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"The right to err, which means the freedom to try experiments, is the universal condition of all progress."
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"The progress of the Way seems retreating."
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"I'm competitive in that I would like to outsell my last record."
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"In a sense, evolution adheres to the classic twelve-step program: it takes things one day at a time. It does not strive for perfection; it does not strive at all. There is no progress, no plans, no scala natura, or scale of nature, that ranks organisms from lowly to superior, primitive to advanced."
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"England has to fulfill a double mission in India: one destructive, the other regenerating - the annihilation of old Asiatic society, and the laying the material foundations of Western society in Asia... When a great social revolution shall have mastered the results of the bourgeois epoch... and subjected them to the common control of the most advanced peoples, then only will human progress cease to resemble that hideous, pagan idol, who would not drink the nectar but from the skulls of the slain."
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"Meditation is earnest prayer, and when prayer progresses, it becomes true meditation."
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"Progress in thought is the assertion of individualism against authority."
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"A woman's life revolves in curves of emotions. It is upon lines of intellect that a man's life progresses."
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"Each little thing that we do passes into the great machine of life which may grind our virtues to powder and make them worthless, or transform our sins into elements of a new civilization, more marvelous and more splendid than any that has gone before."
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"The preparation for conception to me is one of the most important things, if we are we interested in the general progress of our species."
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"Again men have been kept back as by a kind of enchantment from progress in science by reverence for antiquity, by the authority of men counted great in philosophy, and then by general consent."
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"One of the things that people aren't aware of is how much progress is being made in eradicating poverty and providing a healthier life and longevity for people around the world."
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"It is the American air protection, which safeguards the freedom enjoyed by the Kurdish region. It guarantees the cultural, health and civilizational progress made in Iraqi Kurdistan."
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"The mission of this government is much more than the promotion of economic progress. It is to renew the spirit and solidarity of the nation."
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"The very thing that seems to impede your progress can often be turned to account for you."
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