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• When the path becomes difficult, that's no reason to give up. In fact, it means you're making real progress.

  Ralph Marston

  Giving Up, Real, Mean

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• Advertising as the printed form of selling would seem . . . ultimately to be justified in so far as it serves as a means of increasing legitimate human wants, as an agency of fair and economic competition in the distribution of goods, and as a stimulant to social progress.

  Daniel Starch

  Mean, Agency, Competition

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• Disarmament or limitation of armaments, which depends on the progress made on security, also contributes to the maintenance of peace.

  Ludwig Quidde

  Maintenance, Made, Armament

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• The UN is committed to the goal of ensuring that all nations share in economic, social, & scientific progress. It delivers humanitarian assistance to the victims of wars and natural disasters.

  Bill Bradley

  War, Goal, Economic

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• Much of our American progress has been the product of the individual who had an idea; pursued it; fashioned it; tenaciously clung to it against all odds; and then produced it, sold it, and profited from it.

  Hubert H. Humphrey

  Success, Creativity, Odds

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• I'm hopeful that increased awareness of the issues in Africa will bring about a new wave of progress and activism among young people everywhere.

  Angelina Jolie

  Issues, People, Hopeful

  "MTV to Air Trip by Jolie to Africa", www.foxnews.com. March 30, 2006.

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• To deride the hope of progress is the ultimate fatuity, the last word in poverty of spirit and meanness of mind.

  Peter Medawar

  Science, Mind, Lasts

  Peter Brian Medawar (1996). “The Strange Case of the Spotted Mice and Other Classic Essays on Science”, p.119, Oxford University Press, USA

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• Reasonable men adapt themselves to their environment; unreasonable men try to adapt their environment to themselves. Thus all progress is the result of the efforts of unreasonable men.

  George Bernard Shaw

  Men, Effort, Trying

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• Growth is improving the lot of the poor in many countries, reducing poverty by half since 1981. Freer trade could accelerate progress.

  Francois Bourguignon

  Country, Growth, Half

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• Take any path you like; follow any prophet you like; but have only that method which suits your own nature, so that you will be sure to progress.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Path, Suits, Prophet

  Swami Vivekananda (2016). “Vivekananda Reader”, p.167, Advaita Ashrama (A publication branch of Ramakrishna Math, Belur Math)

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

  Swami Vivekananda

  Treatment, Thermometers, Nations

  Swami Vivekananda (1964). “Complete Works”

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• The progress of the world means more enjoyment and more misery too.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Mean, World, Misery

  Swami Vivekananda (2015). “The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda”, p.2921, Manonmani Publishers

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• The progress of the world through all its evils making it fit for the ideals, slowly but surely.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Evil, World, Fit

  Swami Vivekananda (2015). “The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda”, p.2100, Manonmani Publishers

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• There is implanted in every man, naturally, a strong desire for progress.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Strong, Men, Desire

  Swami Vivekananda (2015). “The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda”, p.1845, Manonmani Publishers

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• We do not progress from error to truth, but from truth to truth

  Swami Vivekananda

  Errors

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• We know there is no progress in a straight line.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Lines, Knows, Straight Lines

  Swami Vivekananda (2015). “The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda”, p.379, Manonmani Publishers

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• We shall progress inch by inch.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Inches

  Swami Vivekananda (2015). “The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda”, p.1984, Manonmani Publishers

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• The world is progressing and resources are becoming more abundant. I'd rather go into a grocery store today than a king's banquet a hundred years ago.

  Bill Gates

  Gratitude, Kings, Food

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• What an extraordinary episode in the economic progress of man that age was which came to an end in August, 1914!

  John Maynard Keynes

  Men, August, History

  "The Economic Consequences of the Peace".

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• If you want to progress in your life and grow, act not to react.

  Harbhajan Singh Yogi

  Inspirational, Bhajans, Want

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• To know only one thing well is to have a barbaric mind: civilization implies the graceful relation of all varieties of experience to a central humane system of thought. The present age is peculiarly barbaric: introduce, say, a Hebrew scholar to an ichthyologist or an authority on Danish place names and the pair of them would have no single topic in common but the weather or the war (if there happened to be a war in progress, which is usual in this barbaric age).

  Robert Graves

  War, Knowledge, Civilization

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• I would have it inscribed on the curtains of your bed and the walls of your chamber: "If you do not rise early you can make progress in nothing."

  William Pitt, 1st Earl of Chatham

  Wall, Bed, Kick Ass

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• The greatest minds, as they are capable of the highest excellencies, are open likewise to the greatest aberrations; and those who travel very slowly may yet make far greater progress, provided they keep always to the straight road, than those who, while they run, forsake it.

  Rene Descartes

  Running, Mind, Aberration

  Rene Descartes, Voltaire (2010). “French and English Philosophers: Descartes, Voltaire, Rousseau, Hobbes”, p.5, Cosimo, Inc.

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• Confidence allows you to progress in something you're attempting to accomplish, whether it's playing basketball or baseball or whether it's trying to succeed in business.

  Michael Jordan

  Success, Basketball, Baseball

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• The state incurs debts for politics, war, and other higher causes and 'progress'. . . . The assumption is that the future will honour this relationship in perpetuity. The state has learned from the merchants and industrialists how to exploit credit; it defies the nation ever to let it go into bankruptcy. Alongside all swindlers the state now stands there as swindler-in-chief.

  Jacob Burckhardt

  War, Let It Go, Credit

  Jacob Burckhardt (2012). “Judgements on History and Historians”, p.188, Routledge

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