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    The beauty of progress is that it makes it easier for you to carve out a space to be nonproductive.

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    The best social insurance is to make more progress, not to make more work

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    The beating on the tail of the snake may stop his progress a little, but the more vital parts must be struck before his poisonous death-dealing venom will be wiped out.

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    The best thermometer to the progress of a nation is its treatment of its women.

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    The benefits of biomedical progress are obvious, clear, and powerful. The hazards are much less well appreciated.

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    The best way to progress is the path of freedom.

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    The biblical picture is not one of an upward, linear progress or a precipitous, downward decline. It is a more complicated picture of a fallen world in which there is a gospel of power.

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    The Canadian painter A. Y. Jackson noted that 'failure of sight' was a tiresome problem. He meant we should be able to look at our work-in-progress as if it were previously unseen.

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    The capacity to tolerate complexity and welcome contradiction, not the need for simplicity and certainty, is the attribute of an explorer. Centuries ago, when some people suspended their search for absolute truth and began instead to ask how things worked, modern science was born. Curiously, it was by abandoning the search for absolute truth that science began to make progress, opening the material universe to human exploration.

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    The characteristic mark of economic history under capitalism is unceasing economic progress, a steady increase in the quantity of capital goods available, and a continuous trend toward an improvement in the general standard of living.

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    The characteristic feature of modern capitalism is mass production of goods destined for consumption by the masses. The result is a tendency towards a continuous improvement in the average standard of living, a progressing enrichment of the many.

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    The chief product of an automated society is a widespread and deepening sense of boredom.

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    The brutalities of progress are called revolutions. When they are over we realize this: that the human race has been roughly handled, but that it has advanced.

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    The Church should go forward along the path of progress and be no longer satisfied only to represent the Conservative Party at prayer.

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    The child’s progress does not depend only on his age, but also on being free to look around him.

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    The Church welcomes technological progress and receives it with love, for it is an indubitable fact that technological progress comes from God and, therefore, can and must lead to Him.

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    The concept of progress must be grounded in the idea of catastrophe. That things are 'status quo' is the catastrophe

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    The brain is conceded to be the master organ of the body, the regulator of life, the source of human progress.

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    The closeness of the India-Afghanistan relationship is not a new phenomenon. It has existed since time immemorial. And as a close friend, ever since India's Independence, we have done and will continue to do whatever is required to be done to see Afghanistan grow and progress as a close friend.

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    The colonists usually say that it was they who brought us into history: today we show that this is not so. They made us leave history, our history, to follow them, right at the back, to follow the progress of their history.

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    The complacent, the self-indulgent, the soft societies are about to be swept away with the debris of history.

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    The composition happens as the work progresses. Often the messy background makes it easy to disperse shapes as needed. I'd rather it took over me than I took over it.

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    The concept of conservation is a far truer sign of civilization than that spoilation of a continent which we once confused with progress.

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    The concept of progress acts as a protective mechanism to shield us from the terrors of the future.

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    The debt austerity would not be problems if we had technological progress. If you doubled the debt in the U.S., and the size of the economy doubled because of technological progress and growth, the two would roughly cancel out and it would all be a totally manageable situation.

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    The core values of our constitution are at the heart of our nation's progress.

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    The day when the scientist, no matter how devoted, may make significant progress alone and without material help is past. This fact is most self-evident in our work.

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    The decent moderation of today will be the least of human things tomorrow. At the time of the Spanish Inquisition, the opinion of good sense and of the good medium was certainly that people ought not to burn too large a number of heretics; extreme and unreasonable opinion obviously demanded that they should burn none at all.

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    The degree of freedom from unwanted thoughts and the degree of concentration on a single thought are the measures to gauge spiritual progress.

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    The distance from nothing to a little, is ten thousand times more, than from it to the highest degree in this life.

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    The economic, social and cultural progress of a nation depends on citizens counting for more and having more rights.

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    The desire to understand the world and the desire to reform it are the two great engines of progress, without which human society would stand still or retrogress.

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    The embattled gates to equal rights indeed opened up for modern women, but I sometimes think to myself; that is not what I meant by freedom, it is only social progress.

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    The equation of evolution with progress represents our strongest cultural impediment to a proper understanding of this greatest biological revolution in the history of human thought.

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    The essence of analysis is surprise. When people are themselves surprised by what they say, that's when they are really making some progress.

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    The evolution of man is slow. The injustice of men is great.

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    The depth of the middle class is waning as the polarization of society is in progress.

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    The effects of heat are subject to constant laws which cannot be discovered without the aid of mathematical analysis. The object of the theory is to demonstrate these laws; it reduces all physical researches on the propagation of heat, to problems of the integral calculus, whose elements are given by experiment. No subject has more extensive relations with the progress of industry and the natural sciences; for the action of heat is always present, it influences the processes of the arts, and occurs in all the phenomena of the universe.

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    The end of foreign occupation is one of the pre-requisites if we are to witness any progress in our efforts to help Iraq go forward.

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    The evil arising from mental improvement can be corrected only by a still further progress in that very improvement. Either morality is a fable, or the more enlightened we are, the more attached to it we become.

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    The farther a society progresses, the more clearly the individual becomes the antithesis of the group.

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    The economy is after all driven by people. No matter how dire the situation may be, as long as people are firm, a turnaround, revival and progress can be possible.

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    The fall of the Berlin Wall did more for the progress of freedom than all of the books written by myself or Friedrich Hayek or others.

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    The fame which bids fair to live the longest resembles that which Horace attributes to Marcellus, whose progress he compares to the silent, imperceptible growth of a tree.

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    The fact of progress is written plain and large on the page of history; but progress is not a law of nature.

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    The first step toward the management of disease was replacement of demon theories and humours theories by the germ theory. That very step, the beginning of hope, in itself dashed all hopes of magical solutions. It told workers that progress would be made stepwise, at great effort, and that a persistent, unremitting care would have to be paid to a discipline of cleanliness. So it is with software engineering today.

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    The first issue that compelled me was a very strange split between India being highly development scientifically (we were the third biggest scientific manpower in the world then) and yet at the same time struggling with amazing poverty. The linear equation that says that modern science equals progress and the reduction of poverty did not apply to India. It wasn't working.

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    The feat of superbly imitating a muscle, as Michelangelo did, or a face, as Raphael did, created neither progress nor a hierarchy in art. Because these artists of the sixteenth century imitated human forms, they were not superior to the artists of the high periods of Egyptian, Chaldean, Indochinese, Roman, and Gothic art who interpreted and stylized form but did not imitate it.

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    The function of ignoring, of inattention, is as vital a factor in mental progress as the function of attention itself.

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    The founder of any branch must be more ingenious than the common man. However, if his achievement is not carried on by disciples of the same ingenuity, then things will only become formalized and get stuck in a cul-de-sac; whereby breakthrough and progress will be almost impossible.

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