#progress

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There are three classes of men; the retrograde, the stationary and the progressive.


Johann Kaspar Lavater


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It is impossible to predict the time and progress of revolution. It is governed by its own more or less mysterious laws.


Vladimir Lenin


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The length of exposure (one minute in sunlight) is still too long for the portrait. It was fifteen minutes when I first began my work. Progress may continue.


Gabriel Lippmann


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Conservatives forget that citizenship is more than a thing to withhold from immigrants. Progressives forget it's more than a set of rights.


Eric Liu


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I used to play works in progress to people, but now I wait 'til it's finished, because you make excuses all the time: 'Well, there's gonna be an orchestra on it.' Rather than make excuses, wait 'til it's finished, and then they can say they don't like it.


Chris Lowe


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You will be courteous to your elders who have explored to the point from which you may advance; and helpful to your juniors who will progress farther by reason of your labors.


Abbott L. Lowell


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He who is firmly seated in authority soon learns to think security, and not progress, the highest lesson in statecraft.


James Russell Lowell


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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


#day #decision #deed #final #final analysis

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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