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• Each album we [The Replacements] made was the one we were capable of making and wanted to make at the time. Each one was a progression or, depending on your opinion, a sidestep or tumble forward. I don't know what.

  Paul Westerberg

  Albums, Opinion, Replacements

  Source: pitchfork.com

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• I'm a very optimistic person. I have the chance to listen to so much phenomenal music. Connecting with social networking to create music is a progression of what electronic music does anyway - it connects people.

  Paul van Dyk

  Optimistic, People, Networking

  "DJ Paul Van Dyk is Back After A Five Year Break". Hollywood Life Interview, hollywoodlife.com. May 31, 2012.

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• The advance of knowledge is an infinite progression towards a goal that ever recedes.

  James G. Frazer

  Goal, Infinite

  "The Golden Bough: A Study in Comparative Religion". Book by James G. Frazer, 1890.

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• As there must be moderation in other things, so there must be moderation in self-criticism. Perpetual contemplation of our own actions produces a morbid consciousness, quite unlike that normal consciousness accompanying right actions spontaneously done; and from a state of unstable equilibrium long maintained by effort, there is apt to be a fall towards stable equilibrium, in which the primitive nature reasserts itself. Retrogression rather than progression may hence result.

  Herbert Spencer

  Fall, Self, Long

  "The Principles of Ethics" by Herbert Spencer, (Ch. 10), 1897.

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• The statement of ideas in a poem may have to do with logic. More profoundly, it may be identified with the emotional progression of the poem, in terms of the music and images, so that the poem is alive throughout. Another, more fundamental statement in poetry, is made through the images themselves those declarations, evocative, exact, and musical, which move through time and are the actions of a poem.

  Muriel Rukeyser

  Moving, Emotional, Ideas

  "The Life of Poetry". Book by Muriel Rukeyser, p. 31, 1949.

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• Nothing in Nature stands still; everything strives and moves forward. If we could only view the first stages of creation, how the kingdoms of nature were built one upon the other, a progression of forward-striving forces would reveal itself in all evolution.

  Johann Gottfried Herder

  Moving, Views, Kingdoms

  "'Ideen zur Philosophie der Geschichte der Menschheit' ('Outlines of a Philosophy of the History of Man')". Book by Johann Gottfried Herder, translated by T. Churchill. Book 5, 1803.

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• As ages roll on there is doubtless a progression in human nature. The intellectual comes to rule the physical, and the moral claims to subordinate both. It is no longer strength of body that prevails, but strength of mind; while the law of God proclaims itself superior to both.

  James McCosh

  Law, Mind, Intellectual

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• If I don't already know a song's chord progression, I'll stop writing and try to figure it out. I can occasionally listen to unstructured, amelodic ambient music, but I prefer no music. I don't need silence - I can write just about anywhere - but music is a major distraction.

  F. Paul Wilson

  Song, Writing, Silence

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• Modern anthropology ... opposes the utilitarian assumption that the primitive chants as he sows seed because he believes that otherwise it will not grow, the assumption that his economic goal is primary, and his other activities are instrumental to it. The planting and the cultivating are no less important than the finished product. Life is not conceived as a linear progression directed to, and justified by, the achievement of a series of goals; it is a cycle in which ends cannot be isolated, one which cannot be dissected into a series of ends and means.

  John Carroll

  Believe, Mean, Goal

  John Carroll (2010). “Break-Out from the Crystal Palace: The Anarcho-Psychological Critique: Stirner, Nietzsche, Dostoevsky”, p.121, Taylor & Francis

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• By a persistent effort of will it is possible to change the whole body. The athlete must always keep in mind this concept of change and progression. He must never accept his limitations as being permanent, because they are not.

  Emil Zatopek

  Athlete, Effort, Mind

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• Yeah, I am a little bit, and I think it is a natural progression of the sport, of going upwards in technical ability and everything like that.

  Brian Boitano

  Sports, Thinking, Littles

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

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• As Buddha points out, you should not rely on the opinions of others for validation of your internal progression.

  Frederick Lenz

  Buddhist, Buddhism, Validation

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• Vice is a peripatetic, always in progression.

  Owen Feltham

  Vices

  Owen Feltham (1840). “Resolves: divine, moral and political”, p.254

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• There are certain things that I'll hear about and that I think will make a great book and I put it in a file. Sometimes it's a situation that interests me, and I don't even realize what I'm trying to say about it until I get closer to it. Sometimes the book after that I've written 125 pages of, and I can tell you what the book is after that. I just sort of have a linear progression, but more than anything, the topics land in your lap. I don't feel that I go out searching for them.

  Jodi Picoult

  Book, Thinking, Land

  "Thinking a Little Harder". Interview with Nikki Tranter, www.popmatters.com. May 4, 2005.

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• Life, to be worthy of a rational being, must be always in progression; we must always purpose to do more or better than in time past.

  Samuel Johnson

  Past, Purpose, Worthy

  Samuel Johnson (1788). “Letters to and from the Late Samuel Johnson, LL.D.: To which are Added Some Poems Never Before Printed”, p.334

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• I've been performing since I came out of the womb. I've been dancing and singing since I was a toddler. Acting seemed like a natural progression from that.

  Mary Elizabeth Winstead

  Dancing, Singing, Acting

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• A people who have suffered so much for so long at hands of a racist society must draw the line somewhere.... the black communities of America must rise up as one man to halt the progression of a trend that leads inevitably to their total destruction.

  Bobby Seale

  Men, Hands, America

  Bobby Seale (1991). “Seize the Time: The Story of the Black Panther Party and Huey P. Newton”, p.162, Black Classic Press

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• I continue to be amazed by our bodies' ability for self-repair. ... Our bodies want to be healthy, if we would just let them. That's what these new research articles are showing: Even after years of beating yourself up with a horrible diet, your body can reverse the damage, open back up the arteries-even reverse the progression of some cancers. Amazing! So it's never too late to start exercising, never too late to stop smoking and never too late to start eating healthier.

  Michael Greger

  Cancer, Exercise, Self

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• We can consider the process of healthy growth to be a never ending series of free choice situations, confronting each individual at every point throughout his life, in which he must choose between the delights of safety and growth, dependence and independence, regression and progression, immaturity and maturity.

  Abraham Maslow

  Maturity, Safety, Choices

  Abraham H. Maslow (2013). “Toward a Psychology of Being”, p.53, Simon and Schuster

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• All mathematics is is a language that is well tuned, finely honed, to describe patterns; be it patterns in a star, which has five points that are regularly arranged, be it patterns in numbers like 2, 4, 6, 8, 10 that follow very regular progression.

  Brian Greene

  Stars, Numbers, Patterns

  "CITY BRIGHTS: TODD MILLER 'The Hidden Reality' – an Interview with Brian Greene". Interview with Todd Miller, blog.sfgate.com. January 28, 2011.

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• The origin of brain disease is in many cases predominantly dietary. Although several factors play into the genesis and progression of brain disorders, to a large extent numerous neurological afflictions often reflect the mistake of consuming too many carbs and too few healthy fats.

  David Perlmutter

  Mistake, Play, Healthy

  David Perlmutter (2014). “Grain Brain: The Surprising Truth about Wheat, Carbs, and Sugar - Your Brain's Silent Killers”, p.27, Hachette UK

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• In the complex course of its evolution, life exhibits a remarkable contrast to the tendency expressed in the Second Law to Thermodynamics. Where the Second Law expressed an irreversible progression toward increased entropy and disorder, life evolves continually higher levels of order. The still more remarkable fact is that this evolutionary drive to greater and greater order also is irreversible. Evolution does not go backward.

  J. H. Rush

  Law, Order, Levels

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• I can hope that this long sad story, this progression of priests and ministers and rabbis and ulamas and imams and bonzes and bodhisattvas, will come to an end. I hope this is something to which science can contribute ... it may be the most important contribution that we can make.

  Steven Weinberg

  Long, Important, Atheism

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• There is a progression of understanding vis-à-vis pro football that varies drastically with the factor of distance --physical, emotional, intellectual and every other way. . . Which is exactly the way it should be . . .

  Hunter S. Thompson

  Football, Distance, Emotional

  Hunter S. Thompson, Jann Wenner (2012). “Fear and Loathing at Rolling Stone: The Essential Writing of Hunter S. Thompson”, p.232, Simon and Schuster

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• Throughout history, human exploitation of the earth has produced this progression: colonize-destroy-move on.

  Garrett Hardin

  Moving, Earth, Exploitation

  Garrett Hardin (1995). “Living within Limits: Ecology, Economics, and Population Taboos”, p.17, Oxford University Press

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