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• Right from the outset, the prevailing mindset in British comics fandom was a radical and progressive one. We were all proto-hippies, and we all thought that comics would be greatly improved if everything was a bit psychedelic like Jim Steranko.

  Alan Moore

  Hippie, Would Be, Fandoms

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• The liberals who demanded equality of taxation on behalf of the poor, for instance, did not imagine that they would obtain progressive taxation to the disadvantage of the well-off, and that they would end up with an arrangement in which taxes are voted by those who do not pay them.

  Vilfredo Pareto

  Philosophy, Progressive Taxation, Political

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• Even those who fancy themselves the most progressive will fight against other kinds of progress, for each of us is convinced that our way is the best way.

  Louis L'Amour

  Change, Fighting, Growth

  Louis L'Amour (2003). “The Lonely Men”, p.90, Bantam

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• I'm a Progressive. Much in the same way our founding fathers - who, oddly enough, wouldn't get elected today - were Progressives.

  Will Ferrell

  Father, Today, Way

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• Naturally, when one makes progressive steps, there may be some who see it as a betrayal of their goals and interests.

  Louis Farrakhan

  Betrayal, Goal, May

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• A man is a method, a progressive arrangement; a selecting principle, gathering his like to him; wherever he goes.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Men, Organization, Principles

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1983). “Essays and Lectures”, p.311, Library of America

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• I'm not interested in making all-black films - I come from a very diverse culture, I want to work with every type of person. I work a lot with women executives because they seem to be a lot more open minded about that and a lot more progressive in that way.

  Idris Elba

  Black, Culture, Want

  "The god in Idris Elba". Interview with Afua Hirsch, www.theguardian.com. April 2, 2011.

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• I'm progressive in some ways, old-fashioned in others. I like it when guys hold the door open and are sweet and thoughtful.

  Nina Dobrev

  Sweet, Thoughtful, Doors

  "Nina Dobrev Is Our September Cover Girl!" by Laura Brounstein, www.cosmopolitan.com. August 5, 2013.

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• Progressive art can assist people to learn not only about the objective forces at work in the society in which they live, but also about the intensely social character of their interior lives. Ultimately, it can propel people toward social emancipation.

  Salvador Dali

  Art, Character, People

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• I am fiscally prudent and socially progressive. I believe in protecting a woman's right to choose. I believe in marriage equality.

  Andrew Cuomo

  Believe, Equality, Prudent

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• The next thing I am doing is moving back home to Minnesota and getting involved in politics. I'm looking at a run for Senate in 2008, but in the meantime I am focused on knitting together the progressive network in the upper Midwest.

  Al Franken

  Moving On, Running, Home

  "Al Franken gets serious about politics". www.today.com. November 9, 2005.

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• MS is not really a degenerative illness. It is not fatal, nor is it always progressive.

  Annette Funicello

  Illness

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• Under Thatcher, who ruled us with an iron rod, great art was made. Amazing designers and musicians. Acid house was born. Very colourful and progressive.

  Noel Gallagher

  Art, Iron, House

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• The liberals have not softened their view of actuality to make themselves live closer to the dream, but instead sharpen their perceptions and fight to make the dream actuality.

  Margaret Mead

  Dream, Fighting, Views

  Margaret Mead (1975). “Male and female: a study of the sexes in a changing world”, William Morrow & Co

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• People always think that history proceeds in a straight line. It doesn't. Social attitudes don't change in a straight line. There's always a backlash against progressive ideas.

  Erica Jong

  Attitude, Thinking, Ideas

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• You can't do progressive government from the inside. You have to rally those outsiders and make them a force.

  Jim Hightower

  Government, Outsiders, Force

  "Bill Moyers Journal", www.pbs.org. April 30, 2010.

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• My musical tastes go from Zeppelin to Bob Dylan to Kanye West and Lil' Wayne. Anything modern and progressive.

  Josh Hartnett

  Musical, Zeppelins, Bob

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• In reality, it si more fruitful to wound than to kill. While the dead man lies still, counting only one man less, the wounded man is a progressive drain upon his side.

  B. H. Liddell Hart

  Lying, Reality, Men

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• The main propoganda trick of supporters of the allegedly "progressive" policy of government control is to blame capitalism for all that is unsatisfactory in present-day conditions and to extol the blessings of socialism. They have never attempted to prove their fallacious dogmas, all they did was to call their adversaries names and cast suspicion upon their motives. And, unfortunately, the average citizen cannot see through these stratagems. The liars must be afraid of the truth and are therefore driven to suppress its pronouncement.

  Ludwig von Mises

  Philosophy, Liars, Blessing

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• If you are going to be progressive, then you have to make progress. And that sometimes depends on breaking a few legs.

  Jennifer Granholm

  Progress, Legs, Sometimes

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• Even today, in our progressive times, in most movies that come out, the men have to have biceps and the women have to be thin or something.

  Joseph Gordon-Levitt

  Men, Biceps, Today

  "Joseph Gordon-Levitt: the new Heath Ledger?". Interview with Catherine Shoard, www.theguardian.com. August 27, 2009.

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• Measures must always in a progressive society be held superior to men, who are after all imperfect instruments, working for their fulfilment.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Men, Progressive Society, Imperfect

  Mahatma Gandhi (1965). “Glorious Thoughts of Gandhi: Being a Treasury of about Ten Thousand Valuable and Inspiring Thougths of Mahatma Gandhi, Classified Under Four Hundred Subjects”

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• I mean there's certainly a lot of progressive rock and metal that exists at the underground level, which has its own vitality, as it should. But it seems to have lost its ability to really charge up the hill.

  Billy Corgan

  Mean, Rocks, Levels

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• While the vaccine discovery was progressive, the joy I felt at the prospect before me of being the instrument destined to take away from the world one of its greatest calamities [smallpox], blended with the fond hope of enjoying independence and domestic peace and happiness, was often so excessive that, in pursuing my favourite subject among the meadows, I have sometimes found myself in a kind of reverie.

  Edward Jenner

  Science, Discovery, Vaccines

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• Nature as a whole is a progressive realization of purpose strictly comparable to the realization of purpose in any single plant or animal.

  John Dewey

  Nature, Animal, Purpose

  William James, John Dewey, John M. Capps, Donald Capps (2005). “James and Dewey on Belief and Experience”, p.181, University of Illinois Press

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