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• By bells and many other similar techniques they (schools) teach that
  nothing is worth finishing. The gross error of this is progressive: if
  nothing is worth finishing then by extension nothing is worth starting
  either. Few children are so thick-skulled they miss the point.

  John Taylor Gatto

  Children, School, Errors

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• Homeopathy is a progressive and aggressive step in medicine.

  John D. Rockefeller

  Medicine, Steps, Aggressive

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• Like an organism, photography was born whole. It is in our progressive discovery of it that its history lies.

  John Szarkowski

  Photography, Lying, Discovery

  "Was John Szarkowski the most influential person in 20th-century photography?" by Sean O'Hagan, www.theguardian.com. July 20, 2010.

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• I define sustainable history as a durable progressive trajectory in which the quality of life on this planet or other planets is premised on the guarantee of human dignity for all at all times and under all circumstances.

  Nayef Al-Rodhan

  Quality, Guarantees, Dignity

  "Sustainable History and the Dignity of Man: A Philosophy of History and Civilisational Triumph". Book by Nayef Al-Rodhan, 2009.

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• Progressive white teachers seem to say to their black students 'Let me help you find your voice. I promise not to criticize one note as you search for your song'. But the black teachers say 'I've heard your song loud and clear. Now I want to teach you to harmonize with the rest of the world.

  Lisa Delpit

  Song, Teacher, Teaching

  Lisa Delpit (2006). “Other People's Children: Cultural Conflict in the Classroom”, p.18, The New Press

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• It is subversive to set up inquisitions like this, state or national, into the thoughts and consciences of Americans. . . . It is subversive for commissions like this to spread hysteria and intimidation throughout the land that Americans are afraid to sign petitions, afraid to read progressive magazines, afraid to make out checks for liberal causes, afraid to join organizations, afraid to speak their mind on public issues. Americans dare not be free citizens! This is the destruction of democracy.

  Florence Luscomb

  Women, Hysteria, Issues

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• Because Social Security is specifically designed to boost the retirement income of low earners with a progressive benefit formula, the program has played an enormous and necessary role in keeping Latinas out of poverty.

  Grace Napolitano

  Retirement, Income, Roles

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• The paleontological evidence before us today clearly demonstrates ordered progressive change with the successive development of new faunal and floral assemblages through the changing epochs of our earth's history. There should be no real conflict between science, which is the search for truth, and Christ's teachings, which I hold to be truth itself. It is only when scientists remove God from creation that the Christian is faced with an irreconcilable situation.

  Wendell Phillips

  Christian, Truth, Real

  Wendell Phillips (1955). “Qataban and Sheba: Exploring the Ancient Kingdoms on the Biblical Spice Routes of Arabia”

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• People who are willing to give up freedom for the sake of short term security, deserve neither freedom nor security.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Inspirational, Peace, Giving Up

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• My definition of success is: 1.) The progressive realization of worthy goals 2.) The ability to love and have compassion 3.) To be in touch with the creative source within.

  Deepak Chopra

  Compassion, Goal, Creative

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• From the moment they had left the Earth, their own weight, and that of the Projectile and the objects therein contained, had been undergoing a progressive diminution. . . . Of course, it is quite clear, that this decrease could not be indicated by an ordinary scales, as the weight to balance the object would have lost precisely as much as the object itself. But a spring balance, for instance, in which the tension of the coil is independent of attraction, would have readily given the exact equivalent of the loss.

  Jules Verne

  Spring, Future, Independent

  Jules Verne (2014). “All Around The Moon”, p.111, Jazzybee Verlag

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• However, we all share the firm belief in the triumph of humanist and progressive values that mankind has achieved during its long history of struggle and creativeness.

  Tran ?uc Luong

  Struggle, Long, Triumph

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• France turned a deaf ear to the demands, but Ho had succeeded in attracting great publicity in progressive French circles to the situation in Indochina.

  Wilfred Burchett

  Circles, Ears, Demand

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• If you want to say something radical, you should dress conservative.

  Steven Biko

  Dresses, Want, Conservative

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• I will burn, but this is a mere incident. We shall continue our discussion in eternity.

  Michael Servetus

  Eternity, Incidents, Discussion

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• The road to success is always under construction. It is a progressive course, not an end to be reached.

  Tony Robbins

  Inspirational, Road To Success, Construction

  Twitter post from Apr 15, 2016

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• Politically, Swift was one of those people who are driven into a sort of perverse Toryism by the follies of the progressive party of the moment.

  George Orwell

  Party, People, Moments

  George Orwell, Ian Angus, Sheila Davison (1998). “The Complete Works of George Orwell: Smothered under journalism, 1946”

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• The destiny of humans cannot be separated from the destiny of earth.

  Thomas Berry

  Destiny, Earth, Humans

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• Soldiers are the foundation of an army; unless they are imbued with a progressive political spirit, and unless such a spirit is fostered through progressive political work, it will be impossible to achieve genuine unity between officers and men, impossible to arouse their enthusiasm for the War of Resistance to the full, and impossible to provide an excellent basis for the most effective use of all our technical equipment and tactics.

  Mao Zedong

  War, Army, Men

  Mao Zedong (2017). “Quotations from Chairman Mao Tse-tung (The Little Red Book) & Other Works”, p.75, Lulu.com

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• Every attempt, by whatever authority, to fix a maximum of productive labor by a given worker in a given time is an unjust restriction upon his freedom and a limitation of his right to make the most of himself in order that he may rise in the scale of the social and economic order in which he lives. The notion that all human beings born into this world enter at birth into a definite social and economic classification, in which classification they must remain permanently through life, is wholly false and fatal to a progressive civilization.

  Nicholas Murray Butler

  Life, Order, Civilization

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• It is the darling delusion of mankind that the world is progressive in religion, toleration, freedom, as it is progressive in machinery.

  Moncure D. Conway

  World, Machinery, Darling

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• I address myself to the Communists, to those Communists who were prompted to join the Party by the progressive ideas of mankind and socialism, and not by selfish personal interests - let us represent our pure and just ideas by pure and just means.

  Janos Kadar

  Selfish, Party, Mean

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• If the propositions of this Discourse are tenable, the "state of progressive collapse" is precisely that state in which alone we are warranted in considering All Things.

  Edgar Allan Poe

  States, Discourse, Collapse

  Edgar Allan Poe (1856). “The Select Works: With a Memoir of the Author. ¬The narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym”, p.269

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• Progressive societies outgrow institutions as children outgrow clothes.

  Henry George

  Children, Clothes, Progress

  Henry George (2006). “Social Problems”, p.7, Cosimo, Inc.

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• Our lazy embrace of Stewart and Colbert is a testament to our own impoverished comic standards. We have come to accept coy mockery as genuine subversion and snarky mimesis as originality. It would be more accurate to describe our golden age of political comedy as the peak output of a lucrative corporate plantation whose chief export is a cheap and powerful opiate for progressive angst and rage.

  Steve Almond

  Powerful, Political, Lazy

  "The Joke’s on You" by Steve Almond, The Baffler, No. 20, www.huffingtonpost.com. July 19, 2012.

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