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• The world will not be inherited by the strongest, it will be inherited by those most able to change.

  Charles Darwin

  World, Able, Strongest

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• It is not the brains that matter most, but that which guides them — the character, the heart, generous qualities, progressive ideas.

  Fyodor Dostoevsky

  Love, Heart, Character

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• I believe moderates will need to be driven out in order to usher in the progressive era.

  Barack Obama

  Believe, Order, Needs

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• Liberals never, ever drop a heinous idea; they just change the name. Abortion becomes choice, communist becomes progressive, communist dictatorship becomes people's democratic republic and Nikita Khrushchev becomes Barack Obama.

  Ann Coulter

  Names, Ideas, People

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• I've been regulated my whole life. We have progressive taxes. It's not a free-market free-for-all. I completely understand that society has a perfectly legitimate right to put in structures and regulations and rules that make it fairer, better, cleaner.

  Jamie Dimon

  Regulation, Structure, Taxes

  "Jamie Dimon on Finance: 'Who Owns the Future?'". Interview with John Micklethwait, www.bloomberg.com. March 1, 2016.

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• American views today are weak, confused, and divided. On one side, many progressive liberals still think that we humans are essentially good and getting better and better. On the other side, many postmoderns actually think it is worse to judge evil than to do evil. And in the middle, many ordinary folk plaster life with rainbows and smile buttons and wander through life on the basis of sentiment and clichés.

  Os Guinness

  Confused, Thinking, Views

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• I am a progressive who gets things done. And the root of that word, progressive, is progress.

  Hillary Clinton

  Roots, Progress, Done

  Hillary Clinton's speech at the Clinton-Sanders Democratic presidential debate in Durham, New Hampshire, hosted by MSNBC, www.nytimes.com. February 4, 2016.

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• The pause - that impressive silence, that eloquent silence, that geometrically progressive silence which often achieves a desired effect where no combination of words, howsoever felicitous, could accomplish it.

  Mark Twain

  Silence, Achieve, Combination

  Mark Twain (2016). “Mark Twain in Eruption (Abridged, Annotated)”, p.154, BIG BYTE BOOKS

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• A great democracy must be progressive or it will soon cease to be a great democracy.

  Theodore Roosevelt

  Democracy, Cease

  Theodore Roosevelt, Paul H. Jeffers (1998). “The Bully Pulpit: A Teddy Roosevelt Book of Quotations”, p.40, Taylor Trade Publications

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• Many interviewers when they come to talk to me, think they're being progressive by not mentioning in their stories any longer that I'm black. I tell them, 'Don't stop now. If I shot somebody you'd mention it.'

  Colin Powell

  Thinking, Black, Stories

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• Meditation is the progressive quieting of our mind, until we reach the source of thought, which in wisdom traditions are the realm of our soul and spirit. In this domain of awareness there is infinite creativity, synchronicity, the power of intention, and freedom from limitations.

  Deepak Chopra

  Creativity, Meditation, Soul

  "Questions About Meditation You Were Too Embarrassed To Ask, Explained By Deepak Chopra". Interview with Whitney Jefferson, www.buzzfeed.com. August 7, 2014.

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• I couldn't possibly explain why the common person would be against something like that. It's all rooted in sexual hang-ups. The whole institution of marriage itself really has no place in a progressive society. I don't know why anyone would want to get married heterosexually, so why they'd be against homosexual marriage is flummoxing. I only use that word when I'm talking to someone from the British press.

  Doug Stanhope

  Homosexual Marriage, Talking, Would Be

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• The American people, whether you are Democrat, independent, Republican, progressive, conservative, do not believe corporations are people or that corporations should be able to buy elections.

  Bernie Sanders

  Believe, Independent, People

  Source: www.realclearpolitics.com

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• I'm always looking for an opportunity to bring progressive Democrats together with some conservative libertarian types, because there are places where we can agree.

  Ron Paul

  Opportunity, Together, Libertarian

  "Reps. Barney Frank & Ron Paul on Military Spending". "The Situation Room", www.realclearpolitics.com. July 7, 2010.

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• It is not 'progressive' to try to resolve problems by eliminating a human life.

  Pope Francis

  Trying, Problem, Human Life

  Pope Francis (2014). “The Joy of the Gospel”, p.62, BookBaby

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• Unless our conception of patriotism is progressive, it cannot hope to embody the real affection and the real interest of the nation.

  Jane Addams

  Real, Patriotic, Patriotism

  Jane Addams (2007). “Newer Ideals of Peace”

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• Only in the last moment in history has the delusion arisen that people can flourish apart from the rest of the living world.

  E. O. Wilson

  People, World, Lasts

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• The fact is that every war suffers a kind of progressive degradation with every month that it continues, because such things as individual liberty and a truthful press are simply not compatible with military efficiency.

  George Orwell

  Military, War, Suffering

  George Orwell (2016). “Homage to Catalonia / Down and Out in Paris and London”, p.190, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Without liberals we wouldn't have unions. We wouldn't have environmental protections. We wouldn't have seat belts or birth control or the ACLU! Any of these things!

  Janeane Garofalo

  Environmental, Birth Control, Unions

  "The Majority Report" with Janeane Garofalo, April 21, 2005.

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• Sixty years ago I knew everything. Now I know nothing. Education is a progressive discovery of our own ignorance.

  Will Durant

  Ignorance, Discovery, Years

  "Books: The Great Gadfly". Time Magazine (review of "The Age of Voltaire" by Will and Ariel Durant), October 8, 1965.

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• Moderation is a fatal thing. Nothing succeeds like excess.

  Oscar Wilde

  Funny, Drinking, Beer

  Oscar Wilde (2012). “Oscar Wilde's Wit and Wisdom: A Book of Quotations”, p.26, Courier Corporation

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• I'm very progressive in a lot of ways, but I'm a very proud American. It sounds so corny to say, but I am and have always been very... I'm just so proud. I don't ever not want to live in America.

  Nick Viall

  America, Sound, Want

  Source: www.glamour.com

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• The silent majority really is a liberal majority, even though the word liberal has taken a real beating over the last 20 years by radical conservatives.

  Robert Reich

  Real, Taken, Years

  "Robert Reich's Call to 'Reason'". BuzzFlash Interview, www.alternet.org. June 16, 2004.

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• The most wonderful of all things in life is the discovery of another human being with whom one's relationship has a growing depth, beauty and joy as the years increase. This inner progressiveness of love between two human beings is a most marvelous thing; it cannot be found by looking for it or by passionately wishing for it. It is a sort of divine accident, and the most wonderful of all things in life.

  Hugh Walpole

  Love, Life, Relationship

  "Wisdom for the Soul: Five Millennia of Prescriptions for Spiritual Healing". Book by Larry Chang, p. 597, 2006.

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• On issue after issue, the polls - and these are not snapshot polls; these are polls over a consistent period of time - show that most Americans share what one could call core liberal or progressive values: investment in health care and education over tax cuts; fair trade over free trade; corporate accountability over deregulation; environmental protection over laissez-faire policies; defending Social Security and Medicare over privatizing them; raising the minimum wage over eliminating it. The country prefers progressive alternatives to the failed policies of the conservative right.

  Katrina vanden Heuvel

  Country, Health, Cutting

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