"In the world of art, as in the whole of creation, freedom and progress are the main objectives."
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"One will never get any more than he thinks he can get. YOU HAVE WHAT IT TAKES. Look back and see your progress - damn the torpedo, full speed ahead!"
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"When we point to obstacles we inhibit progress. When we offer solutions we advance."
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"Acorns were good until bread was found."
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"Iteration, like friction, is likely to generate heat instead of progress."
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"Progress consists only in the greater clarification of answers to the basic questions of life."
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"Rather than becoming discouraged, know that encountering a wall is proof of the progress that you have made so far."
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"The quest for peace is the statesman's most exacting duty... Practical progress to lasting peace is his fondest hope."
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"As natural selection works solely by and for the good of each being, all corporeal and mental endowments will tend to progress toward perfection."
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"Determine value apart from price; progress apart from activity; wealth apart from size."
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"In any case, whenever technical progress opened a new window into the surrounding world, I felt the urge to look through this window, hoping to see something unexpected."
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"We are being made aware that the organization of society on the principle of private profit, as well as public destruction, is leading both to the deformation of humanity by unregulated industrialism, and to the exhaustion of natural resources, and that a good deal of our material progress is a progress for which succeeding generations may have to pay dearly."
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"Don't put off joy and happiness. Strive to live each day to its fullest, squeezing all the joy you can out of each moment. Instead of measuring your life's value by your progress toward a single goal, remember that the direction you're headed in is more important than temporary results."
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"The only way to isolate specific back muscles - whether it is upper. or lower back - or make any progress is through the power of the mind-muscle connection."
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"All human victories, all human progress, stand upon the inner force."
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"If I can keep this up and nothing interferes with my progress, one of these days I might be able to contribute something to the world."
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"Believing in progress does not mean believing that any progress has yet been made."
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"As we progress into the twenty-first century, anyone who considers themselves a realist will have to make the environment a top priority."
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"Human beings are works in progress that mistakenly think they're finished."
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"One thing we have lost, that we had in the past, is a sense of progress, that things are getting better. There is a sense of volatility, but not of progress."
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