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In the final analysis there is no other solution to man's progress but the day's honest work, the day's honest decision, the day's generous utterances, and the day's good deed. ↗

— Clare Boothe Luce

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Teach thy tongue to say 'I do not know,' and thou shalt progress. ↗

— Maimonides

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Law is stable; the societies we are speaking of are progressive. The greater or less happiness of a people depends on the degree of promptitude with which the gulf is narrowed. ↗

— Henry James Sumner Maine

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There is a point in every young person's life when you realize that the youth that you've progressed through and graduate to some sort of adulthood is equally as messed up as where you're going. ↗

— Jena Malone

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Maybe the preoccupation with technological progress has overshadowed our concern with human progress. ↗

— Wynton Marsalis

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My daddy expected that my brothers and I and our generation would make the world a better place. He had lived in an America of continual social progress. ↗

— Wynton Marsalis

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Unquestionably, there is progress. The average American now pays out twice as much in taxes as he formerly got in wages. ↗

— H. L. Mencken

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I have learned so much from working with other poets, travelling and reading with them, spending days discussing poems in progress. There is the sense that we are all, as writers, part of something which is more powerful than any of us. ↗

— Helen Dunmore

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In the progress of personality, first comes a declaration of independence, then a recognition of interdependence. ↗

— Henry Van Dyke

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What we call progress is the exchange of one nuisance for another nuisance. ↗

— Havelock Ellis

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