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We are either progressing or retrograding all the while. There is no such thing as remaining stationary in this life. ↗

— James Freeman Clarke

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The repeal of racist language in the Constitution of Alabama was and still is a necessary step in the state's ability to progress. ↗

— Artur Davis

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I think more about the family now. That's an interesting progression for me. ↗

— John Denver

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I think mistakes are the essence of science and law. It's impossible to conceive of either scientific progress or legal progress without understanding the important role of being wrong and of mistakes. ↗

— Alan Dershowitz

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Conservatism discards Prescription, shrinks from Principle, disavows Progress; having rejected all respect for antiquity, it offers no redress for the present, and makes no preparation for the future. ↗

— Benjamin Disraeli

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We who are liberal and progressive know that the poor are our equals in every sense except that of being equal to us. ↗

— Lionel Trilling

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The progress of rivers to the ocean is not so rapid as that of man to error. ↗

— Voltaire

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It was progressively more difficult to find work in the theatre, as well. ↗

— Andrzej Wajda

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When we are sure that we are on the right road there is no need to plan our journey too far ahead. No need to burden ourselves with doubts and fears as to the obstacles that may bar our progress. We cannot take more than one step at a time. ↗

— Orison Swett Marden

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The progress of freedom depends more upon the maintenance of peace, the spread of commerce, and the diffusion of education, than upon the labors of cabinets and foreign offices. ↗

— Richard Cobden

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