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We all want progress, but if you're on the wrong road, progress means doing an about-turn and walking back to the right road; in that case, the man who turns back soonest is the most progressive.

Man You Walking Road

What's it like to envision the ten-thousand-year environmental impact of tossing a plastic bottle into the trash bin, all in the single second it takes to actually toss it? Or the ten-thousand-year history of the fossil fuel being burned to drive to work or iron a shirt? It may be environmentally progressive, but it's not altogether pleasant.

Douglas Rushkoff

Work History Environmental Drive

In the child, consciousness rises out of the depths of unconscious psychic life, at first like separate islands, which gradually unite to form a 'continent,' a continuous landmass of consciousness. Progressive mental development means, in effect, extension of consciousness.

Life Child Development Like

The ancient superficial idea of the uniform and progressive growth of the human personality has remained unaltered, and the erroneous belief has persisted that it is the duty of the adult to fashion the child according to the pattern required by society.

Maria Montessori

Personality Growth Fashion Society

Journalism is what maintains democracy. It's the force for progressive social change.

Change Democracy Journalism Force

Sixty years ago I knew everything; now I know nothing; education is a progressive discovery of our own ignorance.

Education Ignorance Know Nothing

I'm drawn to almost any piece of writing with the words 'divine love' and 'impeachment' in the first sentence. But I know the word 'divine' makes many progressive people run screaming for their cute little lives, and so one hesitates to use it.

Love Cute People Words

Naturally, when one makes progressive steps, there may be some who see it as a betrayal of their goals and interests.

Louis Farrakhan

Goals See Betrayal Some

Political correctness is as exploitable as any other progressive ideal, but its aim is to stifle the incessant noise of those who flap their careless lips without a thought about those they might offend and why that might be important.

Marcus Brigstocke

Political Thought Important Lips

A man is a method, a progressive arrangement; a selecting principle, gathering his like to him; wherever he goes.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Man Gathering Like Wherever

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It's good to be progressive, but don't shun the good things about tradition.

Good Tradition Good Things Things

The same law takes place in a system, consisting of many bodies, as in one single body, with regard to their persevering in their state of motion or of rest. For the progressive motion, whether of one single body or of a whole system of bodies, is always to be estimated from the motion of the center of gravity.

Rest Law Place Body

Education is a progressive discovery of our own ignorance.

Education Ignorance Own Discovery

Progressive art can assist people to learn not only about the objective forces at work in the society in which they live, but also about the intensely social character of their interior lives. Ultimately, it can propel people toward social emancipation.

Work Art Character People

Success is the progressive realization of a worthy goal or ideal.

Earl Nightingale

Success Success Is Worthy Realization

The reactionary is always willing to take a progressive attitude on any issue that is dead.

Theodore Roosevelt

Attitude Dead Always Take

I think for anybody, regardless of what industry you work in, when you get a new job, and it's progressive in terms of your career, that is one of the best feelings in the world.

Work Best You World

We have to start grounding our policies in facts and recognize that a strong economy is critical for funding progressive priorities.

Strong Start Priorities Facts

People claim to be progressive by celebrating curvy bodies - but the standards for those hourglass shapes are equally rigid. They mask that with body positivity - but what about unconventionally attractive bodies?

Barbie Ferreira

People Body Mask Attractive

People do not realize that Alzheimer's is not old age. It is a progressive and fatal disease and staggering amounts of people develop Alzheimer's every day.

Melina Kanakaredes

Day Age People Old Age

The establishment of free trade agreements can be a critical and progressive step towards greater economic integration, and continues to become more valuable in an increasingly global world.

World Step Free Economic

Reggae has a philosophy, you know? It's not just entertainment. There's an idea behind it, a way of life behind the music, which is a positive way of life, which is a progressive way of life for better people.

Positive Life Music You

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

Helena Blavatsky

Life Nature Higher Order

In reality, it si more fruitful to wound than to kill. While the dead man lies still, counting only one man less, the wounded man is a progressive drain upon his side.

B. H. Liddell Hart

Man Reality Dead Side

I'm surrounded by very powerful women and very progressive men.

Christie Hefner

Women Men Powerful Surrounded

A majority of Americans support Social Security and Medicare, a progressive tax system and a government that regulates business in the public interest, but most share deep skepticism about the government's ability to do all this well.

Business Support Government Deep

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