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• The problem with the World Bank has to do with development - the spreading of Western over-consumption worldwide.

  Herman E. Daly

  Development, World, Problem

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• By logic and reason we die hourly; by imagination we live.

  William Butler Yeats

  Imagination, Logic, Reason

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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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• But, when Scripture makes a clear distinction between the act of creation and the process of preservation, we cannot accept the idea of a progressive creation process.

  Walter Lang

  Ideas, Scripture, Creation

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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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• Our mind has its own ideal time, which is no other but the consciousness of the progressive development of our beings.

  August Wilhelm von Schlegel

  Mind, Development, Consciousness

  August Wilhelm von Schlegel (1879). “Lectures on Dramatic Art and Literature”

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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

  Law, People, Degrees

  Henry Sumner Maine, Sir, J. H. Morgan (2000). “Ancient Law”, p.15, Beard Books

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• In the progressive growth of astronomy, physics or mechanical science was developed, and when this had been, to a certain degree, successfully cultivated, it gave birth to the science of chemistry.

  Justus von Liebig

  Science, Growth, Degrees

  David M. Knight, Justus von Liebig (1998). “The Development of Chemistry, 1789-1914: Familiar letters on chemistry”, p.2, Taylor & Francis

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• This excerpt is presented as reproduced by Copernicus in the preface to De Revolutionibus: "Some think that the earth remains at rest. But Philolaus the Pythagorean believes that, like the sun and moon, it revolves around the fire in an oblique circle. Heraclides of Pontus and Ecphantus the Pythagorean make the earth move, not in a progressive motion, but like a wheel in rotation from west to east around its own center."

  Plutarch

  Believe, Moving, Moon

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• Pedagogy of the Oppressed resonated with progressive educators, already committed to a 'child-centered' rather than a 'teacher-directed' approach to classroom instruction. Freire's rejection of teaching content knowledge seemed to buttress what was already the ed schools' most popular theory of learning, which argued that students should work collaboratively in constructing their own knowledge and that the teacher should be a 'guide on the side,' not a 'sage on the stage.'

  Sol Stern

  Education, Teacher, Children

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• Progressive improvement beats delayed perfection.

  Mark Twain

  Perfection, Excellence, Improvement

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• If men make war in slavish observance of rules, they will fail. No rules will apply to conditions of war as different as those which exist in Europe and America...War is progressive, because all the instruments and elements of war are progressive.

  Ulysses S. Grant

  War, Men, Europe And America

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• There are people out there who are into traditional country music and for those people you have artists like Brad Paisley and Josh Turner and Alan Jackson. Then you have artists with a progressive style of country music, like myself and Eric Church and Luke Bryan and Miranda Lambert.

  Jason Aldean

  Country, Artist, People

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• I have an idealistic view of science as a liberalising and progressive force for humanity.

  Paul Nurse

  Views, Humanity, Force

  "Sir Paul Nurse - Biographical". "Les Prix Nobel" ("The Nobel Prizes 2001") edited by Tore Frängsmyr, Nobel Foundation, Stockholm, www.nobelprize.org. 2002.

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• Progressive rock was happening.

  Tony Orlando

  Rocks, Happenings

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• Bill Clinton was in the line of great progressive presidents who faced the realities in his own time and applied innovative solutions to problems.

  Sidney Blumenthal

  Reality, President, Lines

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• I will say that the environment I grew up in was not the most progressive.

  Alan Ball

  Environment, Grew Up, Grew

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• I like Akon, I like some of Lil Wayne when he uses that funky voice. Anything progressive.

  Afrika Bambaataa

  Voice, Use, Wayne

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• I was very restless. I really wanted to be a part of a kind of a progressive society. I was fed up with these Communist doctrines and you were hassled all the time with members of the Party committee who were KGB, what you have to do, where in the West you can go or not to go.

  Mikhail Baryshnikov

  Party, Kgb, Doctrine

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• I support concrete and progressive immigration reform based on three primary criteria: family reunification, economic contributions, and humanitarian concerns.

  Jeff Bingaman

  Support, Immigration, Reform

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• The whole order of nature evinces a progressive march towards a higher life.

  H. P. Blavatsky

  Order, March, Higher

  H.P. Blavatsky (2016). “The Secret Doctrine”, p.196, Penguin

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• I have managed to infuriate the bank bosses; acquire a fatwa from the revolutionary guards of the trades union movement; frighten the 'Daily Telegraph' with a progressive graduate payment; and upset very rich people who are trying to dodge British taxes. I must be doing something right.

  Vince Cable

  People, Boss, Upset

  "Liberal Democrat Conference: Vince Cable Speech in Full". www.theguardian.com. September 22, 2010.

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• We need to reach out to small 'l' liberal voters who have a modern outlook on life, who want a party that is hard-headed on the economy - more credible on the economy than Labour - but more socially progressive and fairer than the Conservatives.

  Nick Clegg

  Party, Outlook On Life, Needs

  "Nick Clegg takes thorny path out of the Rose Garden". Interview with Nicholas Watt, www.theguardian.com. August 28, 2012.

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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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