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the Week of Proper 7 / Ordinary 12
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Quotations regarding 'Progress'

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The characteristic of scientific progress is our knowing that we did not know.
Gaston Bachelard, French Philosopher (1884-1962)
The idea is that they wouldn't want to deal with militant Islam but an Islam and Muslims who are committed to progress, committed to development, who like peace and are moderate in their ways. So that's what we are doing here.
Abdullah Ahmad Badawi, Politician (1939-  )
Progress would not have been the rarity it is if the early food had not been the late poison.
Walter Bagehot, English Author (1826-1877)
On the other hand, the waging of peace as a science, as an art, is in its infancy. But we can trace its growth, its steady progress, and the time will come when there will be particular individuals designated to assume responsibility for and leadership of this movement.
Fredrik Bajer, Danish Writer (1837-1922)
Usually, terrible things that are done with the excuse that progress requires them are not really progress at all, but just terrible things.
Russell Baker, American Journalist (1925-  )
I think and hope and believe that the Japanese government and the people of Japan will be happy and content with the progress of justice in this case and that it will not become a great issue in the future.
Howard Baker, American Statesman (1925-  )
The reason of the close concurrence between the individual's progress and that of the race appears, therefore, when we remember the dependence of each upon the other.
James M. Baldwin, -
The exact measure of the progress of civilization is the degree in which the intelligence of the common mind has prevailed over wealth and brute force.
George Bancroft, American Historian (1800-1891)
Yet the evil still increased, and, like the parasite of barnacles on a ship, if it did not destroy the structure, it obstructed its fair, comfortable progress in the path of life.
William Banting, English Celebrity
The incorrectness and weaknesses of a theory cause other minds to formulate the problems more exactly and in this way scientific progress is made.
Robert Barany, Austrian Scientist (1876-1936)
The Nobel awards should be regarded as giving recognition to this general scientific progress as well as to the individuals involved.
John Bardeen, American Scientist (1908-1991)
Action and reaction, ebb and flow, trial and error, change - this is the rhythm of living. Out of our over-confidence, fear; out of our fear, clearer vision, fresh hope. And out of hope, progress.
Bruce Barton, American Author (1886-1967)
It would do the world good if every man would compel himself occasionally to be absolutely alone. Most of the world s progress has come out of such loneliness.
Bruce Barton, American Author (1886-1967)
My progress was rendered delightful by the sylvan elegance of the groves, chearful meadows, and high distant forests, which in grand order presented themselves to view.
William Bartram, American Environmentalist (1739-1823)
Progress, this great heresy of decay.
Charles Baudelaire, French Poet (1821-1867)
Poetry and progress are like two ambitious men who hate one another with an instinctive hatred, and when they meet upon the same road, one of them has to give place.
Charles Baudelaire, French Poet (1821-1867)
Thus in Christianity the alienation had become total, and it was this total alienation that was the biggest obstacle to the progress of self-consciousness.
Bruno Bauer, German Theologian (1809-1882)
Progressivism is the cancer in America and it is eating our Constitution, and it was designed to eat the Constitution, to progress past the Constitution.
Glenn Beck, American Journalist (1964-  )
It's the same each time with progress. First they ignore you, then they say you're mad, then dangerous, then there's a pause and then you can't find anyone who disagrees with you.
Tony Benn, English Politician (1925-  )
The government I led gave ordinary people peace, security, dignity, and opportunity to progress.
Benazir Bhutto, Pakistani Leader (1953-2007)
 
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