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		In history, and in evolution, progress is always a futile, Sisyphean struggle to stay in the same relative place by getting ever better at things. Cars move through the congested streets of London no faster than horse-drawn carriages.
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				Matt Ridley
			
		
	
	
  
	 
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		Religion, it stops people from thinking because they think all the answers are in that one book; it impedes progress; it justifies crazy people. Flying planes into a building was a faith-based initiative.
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				Bill Maher
			
		
	
	
  
	 
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		Social progress takes effect through the replacement of all institutions by new ones; and since every institution involves the recognition of the duty of conforming to it, progress must involve the repudiation of an established duty at every step.
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				George Bernard Shaw
			
		
	
	
  
	 
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		It is the next step forward on the path to the sunrise, and the sun is rising over a new heaven and a new earth.
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				M. Carey Thomas
			
		
	
	
  
	 
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		In nations that have become too complex, taxes and regulation cause at least a doubling of the amount employers must spend on labor. Many experts call this 'progress,' but the natural result is that many companies respond by sending their operations and jobs to less costly nations.
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				Oliver DeMille
			
		
	
	
  
	 
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		The first rule of making progress in anything you do is setting goals, allowing yourself to always have a finish line in sight. This provides a boost in motivation during those moments when slogging forward seems impossible, giving you something tangible to work towards at every moment.
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				T. Harv Eker
			
		
	
	
  
	 
	
		
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		Black people have been qualified to be president for hundreds of years. George Washington Carver could have been president. I could go on with a list of black men that were qualified to be the president of the United States. So the Obama victory is progress for white people.
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				Chris Rock
			
		
	
	
  
	 
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		I've led a school whose faculty and students examine and discuss and debate every aspect of our law and legal system. And what I've learned most is that no one has a monopoly on truth or wisdom. I've learned that we make progress by listening to each other, across every apparent political or ideological divide.
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				Elena Kagan
			
		
	
	
  
	 
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		There is violence and injustice in our world that must be confronted. We must confront it not by splitting apart but by standing together as free nations, as free people. I know that a call to arms can stir the souls of men and women more than a call to lay them down. But that is why the voices for peace and progress must be raised together.
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				Barack Obama
			
		
	
	
  
	 
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		Dating, as we justly may, a new era in the history of man from the Fourth of July, 1776, it would be well, that is, it would be useful, if on each anniversary we examined the progress made by our species in just knowledge and just practice.
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				Frances Wright
			
		
	
	
  
	 
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		Asanas maintain the strength and health of the body, without which little progress can be made. Asanas keep the body in harmony with nature
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				Bellur Krishnamachar Sundararaja Iyengar
			
		
	
	
  
	 
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		From the first the progress of man has been slowly but surely from the artificial to the natural, from the arbitrary and chimerical to the simple and scientific. Getting himself and his affairs more and more into natural currents and following them, this is the way man has progressed.
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				John Burroughs
			
		
	
	
  
	 
	
		
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		Civilization may progress, human nature will remain the same throughout all ages.
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				H. P. Blavatsky
			
		
	
	
  
	 
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		Fundamentally, the basis of all modern progress is the efficiency of labor. And the only sure road to restored prosperity is through the thrift and hard work of our people as a whole.
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				Charles M. Schwab
			
		
	
	
  
	 
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		I auditioned for Jake in Progress, and I was nervous because I had a big crush on John Stamos. I was totally thrown off and couldnt remember my lines.
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				Mircea Monroe
			
		
	
	
  
	 
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		The mechanist is intimately convinced that a precise knowledge of the chemical constitution, structure, and properties of the various organelles of a cell will solve biological problems. This will come in a few centuries. For the time being, the biologist has to face such concepts as orienting forces or morphogenetic fields. Owing to the scarcity of chemical data and to the complexity of life, and despite the progresses of biochemistry, the biologist is still threatened with vertigo.
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				Andre Michel Lwoff
			
		
	
	
  
	 
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		That is the consolation of a little mind; you have the fun of changing it without impeding the progress of mankind.
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				Frank Moore Colby
			
		
	
	
  
	 
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		So far, the actual actions taken have been relatively modest, but there is some hope, I think, that, going forward, these actions will advance further and we will see more progress in the current account.
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				Ben Bernanke