Charles Darwin
Naturalist, Geologist
"The world will not be inherited by the strongest, it will be inherited by those most able to change."
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Progressive
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Karl Marx
Philosopher, Economist
"A heavy or progressive or graduated income tax is necessary for the proper development of Communism."
William Butler Yeats
Poet, Playwright
"By logic and reason we die hourly; by imagination we live."
Allen West
Politician
"I believe there's about 78 to 81 members of the Democrat Party who are members of the Communist Party."
Abraham Lincoln
Political Leader
"Those who are ready to sacrifice freedom for security ultimately will lose both."
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"Progressive economic policies lead to a sustainable economy."
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"The pause - that impressive silence, that eloquent silence, that geometrically progressive silence which often achieves a desired effect where no combination of words, howsoever felicitous, could accomplish it."
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"Life is progressive, no matter what our intentions."
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"The fierce willingness to repudiate domination in a holistic manner is the starting point for progressive cultural revolution."
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"I'm trying to change the root of funk, trying to make it more progressive, more melodic and more lyrically structured."
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"The progressive development of man is vitally dependent on invention."
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"A great democracy must be progressive or it will soon cease to be a great democracy."
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"I support transitioning from the progressive tax to a flat tax system - both individual and corporate/business."
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"If the propositions of this Discourse are tenable, the "state of progressive collapse" is precisely that state in which alone we are warranted in considering All Things."
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"All my life, the naysayers have told me that I can't win because I'm a progressive... because I'm a woman... even because I'm a lesbian."
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"Science emerges from the other progressive activities of man to the extent that new concepts arise from experiments and observations, and that the new concepts in turn lead to further experiments and observations."
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"There certainly is a case to be made that taxes should be more progressive."
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"Jazz is part folk art, part progressive art."
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"True success is the progressive expansion of happiness. It is the ability to express spontaneous joy and share it with others."
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"I think the progressive audience that loves Star Trek will be happy that we're continuing that tradition being progressive and all-inclusive. Star Trek's not necessarily a universe where I want to hear a lot of profanity."
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"I will say that the environment I grew up in was not the most progressive."
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"It's certainly a lot more difficult to get a project made if you're talking about something progressive. That's just the nature of the industry."
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"Individualism is bad for business - though absolutely necessary for freedom, progressive knowledge, and any possible interface with the transcendent."
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"The road to success is always under construction. It is a progressive course, not an end to be reached."
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"It's not only progressives who listen to progressive radio."
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