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• The truth is that our democracy is a work in progress. We are all its founders. We are all learning that we are linked and not ranked.

  Amy Richards

  Democracy, Progress, Truth Is

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• We all want progress, but if you're on the wrong road, progress means doing an about-turn and walking back to the right road; in that case, the man who turns back soonest is the most progressive.

  C. S. Lewis

  Motivational, Live Life, Mean

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• I have made three rules of writing for myself that are absolutes: Never take advice. Never show or discuss work in progress. Never answer a critic.

  Raymond Chandler

  Writing, Advice, Progress

  Raymond Chandler, Dorothy Gardiner, Kathrine Sorley Walker (1977). “Raymond Chandler Speaking”, p.93, Univ of California Press

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• I'm always a work in progress.

  Billie Joe Armstrong

  Progress

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• The amazing fact is that America is founded on a document. It's a work in progress. It can be tested by each generation.

  Christopher Hitchens

  America, Progress, Generations

  "FIVE QUESTIONS FOR: Christopher Hitchens / A gadfly with gusto". Interview with Carolyne Zinko, www.sfgate.com. June 26, 2005.

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• I'm a work in progress, but if I know in my heart that I'm doing my best, that my heart's in the right place, that I have unconditional love, I feel okay.

  Stevie Wonder

  Inspirational, Heart, Unconditional Love

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• All creativity is a work in progress.

  Dean Cavanagh

  Creativity, Progress

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• Music is a work in progress. On a record, it gets frozen in time. And it's oddly unnatural.

  Linda Ronstadt

  Progress, Records, Frozen

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• People and relationships never stop being a work in progress

  Nora Roberts

  Relationship, Work, People

  Nora Roberts (2009). “Vision In White”, p.203, Penguin

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• We are all forever a work in progress. I mean, that is the truth. You are forever in your whole life a work in progress, and forever there is a 12-year-old that's driving in to work with you every day. And you are still on the school playground and you are still whatever it is in college or you are still wondering why someone didn't return your call or ask you out.

  Sherry Lansing

  School, Mean, College

  Source: www.hollywoodreporter.com

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• Tolerance, like any aspect of peace, is forever a work in progress, never completed, and, if we're as intelligent as we like to think we are, never abandoned.

  Octavia Butler

  Intelligent, Thinking, Forever

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• Journalism, like democracy, is not something that is achieved. It is a work in progress, and not every day is as good as the last.

  John Maxwell Hamilton

  Democracy, Progress, Lasts

  "The Romance and Reality of Foreign Reporting". Interview with Jack Shafer, www.slate.com. December 29, 2009.

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• God is busy with the completion of your work, both outwardly and inwardly. He is fully occupied with you. Every human being is a work in progress that is slowly but inexplicably moving toward perfection. We are each an unfinished work of art both waiting and striving to be completed. God deals with each of us separately because humanity is a fine art of skilled penmanship where every single dot is equally important for the entire picture.

  Shams Tabrizi

  Art, Moving, Unfinished Work

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• I try to give myself permission to be a work-in-progress and not have everything figured out at once. It's more manageable and takes some of the pressure off of feeling like I have to have everything right all the time.

  Jewel

  Giving, Feelings, Progress

  Interview with Maranda Pleasant, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.

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• I am a work in progress Dressed in the fabric of a world unfolding Offering me intricate patterns of questions Rhythms that never come clean And strengths that you still haven't seen

  Ani DiFranco

  Offering, Progress, Fabric

  Song: The Slant

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• Making me into a role model is placing too much importance on what I see as a work in progress.

  PJ Harvey

  Role Models, Progress, Roles

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• It's not so much for me where you come from, who you are, what race you are. We're just human beings that are still a work in progress and there's a lot that we've got to overcome, so that we can all be equal.

  Gloria Estefan

  Race, Progress, Overcoming

  "Singer-songwriter Gloria Estefan". The Travis Smiley Show, www.pbs.org. September 27, 2011.

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• Van Halen is a work in progress.

  Alex Van Halen

  Progress, Vans, Van Halen

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• 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.

  Dan Brown

  Spiritual, Long, Progress

  "The Guardian profile: Dan Brown" by Dan Glaister, www.theguardian.com. August 5, 2004.

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• But I'm still a work in progress. My mother calls me quite frequently with various critiques of my performance on TV and other public events. She's usually pretty severe with her comments.

  John McCain

  Mother, Progress, Events

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• I'm used to going into the studio and smoking and drinking until three in the morning. But I can't drink as much because I'm breastfeeding. See this glass of wine? Before, I'd have, like, four of them. Now, one is good. Oh, and I quit smoking. . . I've exorcised a lot of my demons, but I'm still working on myself. I think I'll be a work in progress for the rest of my life.

  Pink

  Morning, Badass, Drinking

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• Just live! Live now! Don't wait, and don't let anyone tell you that you're a work in progress.

  Lindy West

  Waiting, Progress, Just Live

  Source: www.mtv.com

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• Human nature is a work in progress.

  Nick Bostrom

  Progress, Human Nature, Humans

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• 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.

  Ashley Greene

  Thinking, Progress, Too Much

  "Exclusive Ashley Greene Interview". www.seventeen.com. December 7, 2012.

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• We are His greatest handiwork even though we are still a work in progress.

  Gerrit W. Gong

  Progress, Handiwork, Stills

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