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• The Sanders campaign showed that a candidate with mildly progressive programs could win the nomination, maybe the election, even without the backing of the major funders or any media support. There's good reason to suppose that Sanders would have won the nomination had it not been for shenanigans of the Obama-Clinton party managers. He is now the most popular political figure in the country by a large margin.

  Noam Chomsky

  Country, Party, Winning

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• As a progressive discipline [biochemistry] belongs to the present century. From the experimental physiologists of the last century it obtained a charter, and, from a few pioneers of its own, a promise of success; but for the furtherance of its essential aim that century left it but a small inheritance of facts and methods. By its essential or ultimate aim I myself mean an adequate and acceptable description of molecular dynamics in living cells and tissues.

  Frederick Gowland Hopkins

  Mean, Cells, Discipline

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• There are three classes of men; the retrograde, the stationary and the progressive.

  Johann Kaspar Lavater

  Ignorance, Men, Class

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• I think experience will teach you a combination of liberalism and conservatism. We have to be progressive and at the same time we have to retain values. We have to hold onto the past as we explore the future.

  Oliver Stone

  Past, Thinking, Experience

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• If the world ran the way a crew runs a set, we'd have a better, more progressive world.

  Steven Spielberg

  Running, World, Way

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• When the rich wage war, it's the poor who die.

  Jean-Paul Sartre

  Peace, War, Politics

  Le Diable et le bon Dieu (The Devil and the Good Lord, 1951) act 1, first tableau

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• I'm a sci-fi girl. If I can have anything in life, I'd want tons of great science-fiction movies and stories. It's so progressive, beautiful, and imaginative.

  Zoe Saldana

  Beautiful, Girl, Fiction

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• Conventional wisdom on government's role in inequality often has it backwards. Tax reforms have resulted in a more progressive federal income tax; government transfer payments have become less progressive.

  Paul Ryan

  Government, Reform, Income

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• How come liberals never admit that they're liberal? They've now come up with a new word called 'progressive,' which I thought was an insurance company but apparently it's a label.

  Marco Rubio

  Labels, Come Up, Insurance Companies

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• The reactionary is always willing to take a progressive attitude on any issue that is dead.

  Theodore Roosevelt

  Attitude, Issues, Political

  Theodore Roosevelt (1926). “The Works of Theodore Roosevelt”

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• They decided to establish a museum of modern art where works by contemporary artists would be shown. Mother was viewed as a very progressive person, and not everybody liked the paintings she bought.

  David Rockefeller

  Mother, Art, Museums

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• This liberal progressive agenda... is the antithesis of who we are as a constitutional republic.

  Allen West

  Agendas, Republic, Who We Are

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• In the real world, I see conservatives volunteering at adoption agencies, at churches, at bake sales and the local American Legion Post while the only charity a progressive sends is a smug sermon on fair share and what fairness is.

  Allen West

  Real, Agency, Volunteer

  "CPAC Highlights: Rubio and West". "The Rush Limbaugh Show" with Rush Limbaugh, origin-www.rushlimbaugh.com. March 14, 2013.

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• At a certain stage of our progressive attainment, every Initiate undergoes an "Illumination by Sound" in which the Music of the Spheres becomes to us a living reality. When the magical powers of sound are rediscovered and scientifically directed to the specific purpose of healing... and when man has learned how to release the mantraic powers embodied in such inspired utterances, he will master the energies transcending even those unleashed by the atomic physicist of today. They will be energies of yet another and higher dimension.

  Corinne Heline

  Inspiration, Healing, Reality

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• If we are bound to improve, we need not trouble to improve. The pure doctrine of progress is the best of all reasons for not being a progressive.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Progress, Doctrine, Needs

  Gilbert K. Chesterton (2013). “The Essential Gilbert K. Chesterton”, p.82, Simon and Schuster

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• Life gives to all the choice. You can satisfy yourself with mediocrity if you wish. You can be common, ordinary, dull, colorless, or yyou can channel your life so that it will be clean, vibrant, useful, progressive, colorful, and rich.

  Spencer W. Kimball

  Giving, Choices, Wish

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• It's important to be heroic, ambitious, productive, efficient, creative, and progressive, but these qualities don't necessarily nurture soul. The soul has different concerns, of equal value: downtime for reflection, conversation, and reverie; beauty that is captivating and pleasuring; relatedness to the environs and to people; and any animal’s rhythm of rest and activity.

  Thomas Moore

  Life, Animal, Reflection

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• What's it like to envision the ten-thousand-year environmental impact of tossing a plastic bottle into the trash bin, all in the single second it takes to actually toss it? Or the ten-thousand-year history of the fossil fuel being burned to drive to work or iron a shirt? It may be environmentally progressive, but it's not altogether pleasant.

  Douglas Rushkoff

  Impact, Years, Iron

  "Present Shock: When Everything Happens Now". Book by Douglas Rushkoff, www.wired.com. 2004.

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• I couldn't be more proud of my work as a progressive.

  Christine Quinn

  Proud

  "Christine Quinn, Gay NYC Mayoral Candidate, Says LGBT Community Is Behind Her" by Michelangelo Signorile, www.huffingtonpost.com. August 15, 2013.

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• Record labels collude with some of the radio stations, and the radio stations have their play lists, dependent upon what they call the, quote, 'hits.' What's commercially viable gets recycled, endlessly repeated, and as a result of that, the progressive music can't break in.

  Michael Eric Dyson

  Play, Labels, Records

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• I think on-stage nudity is disgusting, shameful and damaging to all things American. But if I were 22 with a great body, it would be artistic, tasteful, patriotic and a progressive religious experience.

  Shelley Winters

  Religious, Retirement, Patriotic

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Hey, you got something going here. I think we've got a chance for some progressive policy that actually focuses on poor and working people.

  Cornel West

  Thinking, People, Hey

  "Cornel West INTERVIEW: Don’t Appoint Larry Summers As An Economic Adviser And Tell Me You’re Progressive", www.huffingtonpost.com. December 3, 2009.

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• I support transitioning from the progressive tax to a flat tax system - both individual and corporate/business.

  Allen West

  Business, Support, Individual

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• Although there have been warnings that it was coming for years, the Alzheimer's epidemic is here now and millions more families will be touched by this progressive - and ultimately fatal - disease unless its course can be altered.

  Jeanne Phillips

  Alzheimer's, Epidemics, Years

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• 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.

  Rick Perry

  Government, Progress, Use

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