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I was heartened to hear the President say that as we make progress on the ground, and Iraqi forces increasingly take the lead, we should be able to further decrease our troop levels.

The progress of the American Revolution has been so rapid and such the alteration of manners, the blending of characters, and the new train of ideas that almost universally prevail, that the principles which animated to the noblest exertions have been nearly annihilated.

Adversity is simply part of earth life. From it we can grow and progress if we choose to. Yes, some trials come because of our own disobedience, but many trials are simply part of life.

Maybe the preoccupation with technological progress has overshadowed our concern with human progress.

I drove right into the music with the same sort of attitude as I went into the football stuff with. Just found a routine and hard work, and it helped me progress a lot faster.

I've always had an enormous sense of independence. But I know that sometimes I can be too independent. It is important to be able to share your life - so that is a work in progress for me.

Since the Renaissance, a concept called 'progress' has been baked into our society. Progress - founded on an accumulation of knowledge through experience (and in the case of science, through experiment). To build on the past rather than endlessly relive it. That's what separates us from the beasts.

When I worked in the White House for President Carter, we tried to do comprehensive tax reform and we made some progress, and other presidents have as well.

All things can be forgiven if we can progress.

He who cannot rest, cannot work; he who cannot let go, cannot hold on; he who cannot find footing, cannot go forward.

Sometimes, unfortunately, hatred is more powerful than progress.

I don't believe in myths of decline or myths of progress, even as regards the literary scene.

Slavery to monarchs and ministers, which the world will be long freeing itself from, and whose deadly grasp stops the progress of the human mind, is not yet abolished.

Progress will always have as its recourse to exaggerate what it cannot surpass.

I wanted to make an Indian character who wasn't either a) the savage that must be eliminated, the force of nature that's blocking the way for industrial progress, or b) the noble innocent that knows all and is another cliche. I wanted him to be a complicated human being.

The greatest enemy of progress is not stagnation, but false progress.

Every step of progress the world has made has been from scaffold to scaffold, and from stake to stake.

The first song I ever wrote was when I was 12, and it had, like, four lines in it. You progress and get better.

I consider myself a student of many religions. The more I learn, the more questions I have. For me, the spiritual quest will be a life-long work in progress.

The more rapidly a civilization progresses, the sooner it dies for another to rise in its place.

Our people have proven their desire for continuing with reforms. We complete the march today with those who have an honest patriotic desire for more progress and reform.

Civilization is the progress toward a society of privacy. The savage's whole existence is public, ruled by the laws of his tribe. Civilization is the process of setting man free from men.

Problems are the price of progress. Don't bring me anything but trouble. Good news weakens me.

A great gulf, however, has been opened between man's material advance and his social and moral progress, a gulf in which he may one day be lost if it is not closed or narrowed.

My films have been progressing towards a certain kind of minimalism, even though it was never intended. Elements which can be eliminated have been eliminated.

As a consequence, progress has come to mean simply more power, more profit, more productivity, more paper prosperity, all of which are convertible into standards concerned only with size or magnitude rather than quality or excellence.

I believe that as women, we must commit ourselves to sustaining the progress made by our foremothers who fought so hard for women's equality and liberation.

All the traditional westerns are about choice and the individual. When progress comes it's much more difficult to define the individual in that world.

Today, the notion of progress in a single line without goal or limit seems perhaps the most parochial notion of a very parochial century

Spencers god was Evolution, sometimes also called Progress.

The progress of society is mainly the improvement in the condition of the workingmen of the world.

We can continue our progress as a Nation toward the promise that all people are created equal and that our Nation will treat every person in that spirit.

What we call progress is the exchange of one nuisance for another nuisance.

Deep down, the US, with its space, its technological refinement, its bluff good conscience, even in those spaces which it opens up for simulation, is the only remaining primitive society.

Beslan, where the Russian authorities stopped live coverage of the school being stormed, was an illustration of the progress we still have to make.

If to live is to progress, if you are lucky, from foolishness to wisdom, then to write novels is to broadcast the various stages of your foolishness.

As I have shown, I will defend democracy with arms when it is threatened by violence; with firmness when it is weakened by division; with law and order when it is subverted by anarchy; and always, I will try to sustain it by wise policies of economic progress so that a democracy means not just an empty liberty, but a full life for all.

Believing in progress does not mean believing that any progress has yet been made.

As we have heard, the end of al-Zarqawi is a significant blow to al-Qaida operations in Iraq. It is another clear indication of the progress we are making.

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

Anyone who knows anything of history knows that great social changes are impossible without feminine upheaval. Social progress can be measured exactly by the social position of the fair sex, the ugly ones included.

One of the lies that we tell ourselves is that we're making progress; but Huey's chair's empty.

I have learned so much from working with other poets, travelling and reading with them, spending days discussing poems in progress. There is the sense that we are all, as writers, part of something which is more powerful than any of us.

Every year the progress of advanced capitalist society makes our population consist of more and more isolates. This is because of the infrastructure of the economy, especially electronic communications.

History can show you that it was one pile of bad stuff after another. It can also show you that there's been tremendous progress in knowledge, behaviour, laws, civilisation. It cannot show you that there was a meaning behind it.

Parallel to our vast strides in technology, there is a dangerous rise in unemployment, foreclosures, and degrading education. Millions of people are stricken with hopelessness and strife. Sadly, in the name of progress we have polluted the air, water, soil and the food we eat.

Civilization is a progress from an indefinite, incoherent homogeneity toward a definite, coherent heterogeneity.

It would not be foolish to contemplate the possibility of a far greater progress still.

In the usual progress of things, the necessities of a nation in every stage of its existence will be found at least equal to its resources.

Literature is at once the cause and the effect of social progress.

If the United States commits to the goal of reaching Mars, it will almost certainly do so in reaction to the progress of other nations - as was the case with NASA, the Apollo program, and the project that became the International Space Station.

Usually, terrible things that are done with the excuse that progress requires them are not really progress at all, but just terrible things.

If virtue promises happiness, prosperity and peace, then progress in virtue is progress in each of these for to whatever point the perfection of anything brings us, progress is always an approach toward it.

While there's been much progress on terrorism, there's still much work to do and it is very important that the countries work together in order to address this threat together.

The most loving parents and relatives commit murder with smiles on their faces. They force us to destroy the person we really are: a subtle kind of murder.

Well of course there's been a great deal of progress over the last 40 years. We don't have laws that segregate black people within the society any longer.

With impressive proof on all sides of magnificent progress, no one can rightly deny the fundamental correctness of our economic system.

In every union roles are assumed, some traditional, some not. My husband used to pay his own bills, I used to call my own repairman. But as marriages progress, you surrender areas of your own competence, often without even knowing it.

If that's there, I believe that technology will probably step up to their part of it.

Nothing can have as its destination anything other than its origin. The contrary idea, the idea of progress, is poison.

Progress would not have been the rarity it is if the early food had not been the late poison.

New York City has finally hired women to pick up the garbage, which makes sense to me, since, as I've discovered, a good bit of being a woman consists of picking up garbage.

Economic progress and better education have directly resulted in the birth of a class of voters who are better informed, very demanding and highly critical.

The slogan of progress is changing from the full dinner pail to the full garage.

I would rate the fact that I get to be alive a big beautiful 10. Satisfaction with myself - work in progress.

The left has come to regard common sense - the traditional wisdom and folkways of the community - as an obstacle to progress and enlightenment.

Finds progress, man's distinctive mark alone, Not God's, and not the beast's; God is, they are, Man partly is, and wholly hopes to be.

Politics I conceive to be nothing more than the science of the ordered progress of society along the lines of greatest usefulness and convenience to itself.

If I had permitted my failures, or what seemed to me at the time a lack of success, to discourage me I cannot see any way in which I would ever have made progress.

With the right kind of institutions, starting with the rule of law, Burma could progress very quickly.

But I think we need to remember that democracy everywhere is by its nature incomplete, a work in progress.

Progress is the injustice each generation commits with regard to its predecessors.

I don't believe in this business of being behind, better to be in front.

I wanted to be in a band that gave bang for the buck. I wanted to be in the band who didn't look like a bunch of guys who, you know, should be in a library studying for their finals.

In the theater, you go from point A to point Z, building your performance as the evening progresses. You have to relinquish that control on a film.

I'm quite good friends with the putative director, Vincenzo Natali, and I'm a big fan of his work, but beyond that, I don't like to talk about other people's work work-in-progress.

The tool that's most associated with the recent progress against malaria is the long-lasting bed net. Bed nets are a fantastic innovation. But we can do even better. We can invent new ways to control the mosquitoes that carry the malaria parasite.

Every company needs to have a skunkworks, to try things that have a high probability of failing. You try to minimize failure, but at the same time, if you're not willing to try things that are inherently risky, you're not going to make progress.

I sincerely hope I can contribute to the progress there has been in relations between Jews and Catholics since the Second Vatican Council in a spirit of renewed collaboration.

People who work crossword puzzles know that if they stop making progress, they should put the puzzle down for a while.

Human life is driven forward by its dim apprehension of notions too general for its existing language.

In 'The Future and Its Enemies,' I argue that individual creativity and enterprise are not only personally satisfying but socially good, producing progress and happiness. For celebrating creativity and happiness, I have been called a fascist by critics on both coasts.

The biggest threat to a better life is the desire to keep the future under control - to make the world predictable by reining in creativity and enterprise. Progress as a neat blueprint, with no deviations and no surprise, may work in children's cartoons or utopian novels. But it's just a fantasy.

Fundamental progress has to do with the reinterpretation of basic ideas.

Iteration, like friction, is likely to generate heat instead of progress.

The humanists' replacement for religion: work really hard and somehow you'll either save yourself or you'll be immortal. Of course, that's a total joke, and our progress is nothing. There may be progress in technology but there's no ethical progress whatsoever.

Progress and healing involves seeing every person as not so different from ourselves.

I've definitely been in relationships where I've given too much, and I've been in relationships where I haven't given enough. I think it's a work in progress. I have to find that person where it clicks.

He who is firmly seated in authority soon learns to think security, and not progress, the highest lesson in statecraft.

If you're trying to diet, what do you do? You grab your two friends and say, 'We're going to the gym; let's do this together.' Money shouldn't be any different. If you're trying to make progress, if you're trying to save more, we really need to be able to get support.

I believe that every writer evolves with every successive novel. I view myself as work-in-progress.

Who can be against progress, after all? But it's a fraudulent use of the word - because for the Progressive, progress is marked not be how free you are, but how much government can 'do' for you.

In my case Pilgrim's Progress consisted in my having to climb down a thousand ladders until I could reach out my hand to the little clod of earth that I am.

There is no greater impediment to progress in the sciences than the desire to see it take place too quickly.

Progress is not an illusion, it happens, but it is slow and invariably disappointing.

I'm competitive in that I would like to outsell my last record.

We will not attain a state of perfection in this life, but we can and should press forward with faith in Christ along the strait and narrow path and make steady progress toward our eternal destiny.

All progress is precarious, and the solution of one problem brings us face to face with another problem.

Yearning for the seemingly impossible is the path to human progress.

Poetry is not a genre in harmony with the modern world; its innermost nature is hostile or indifferent to the dogmas of modern times, progress and the cult of the future.