Liberalism regards life as an adventure in which we must take risks in new situation, in which there is no guarantee that the new will always be the good or the true, in which progress is a precarious achievement rather than inevitability.
Morris Raphael Cohen
LifeGoodAchievementProgressRisks
From a child I was fond of reading, and all the little money that came into my hands was ever laid out in books. Pleased with the 'Pilgrim's Progress,' my first collection was of John Bunyan's works in separate little volumes.
Benjamin Franklin
MoneyProgressChildReadingHands
Artistic mediums go through phases where progress happens really rapidly, and then other moments where it slows down.
Doug Liman
ProgressMomentsDownGoThrough
If workmen are denied any increase in real wages and they can look forward only to a better standard of living through reduction of prices, progress for them is terribly slow, and they become impatient and dissatisfied.
Charles E. Wilson
ProgressForwardSlowBetterLook
As has been pointed out with Libya, the debate over Libya, sometimes we allow diplomatic relations with imperfect regimes because progress can best be made through engagement instead of isolation.
Earl Blumenauer
BestProgressIsolationSometimes
We can have no progress without change, whether it be basketball or anything else.
John Wooden
ChangeProgressBasketballAnything
Changes call for innovation, and innovation leads to progress.
Li Keqiang
InnovationProgressChangesCall
I never like to get political, but when you have the ability, through your media, to influence a large mass of people, I would want to be a part of the evolving cycle of progress vs. keeping things the way that they are.
Zoe Saldana
ProgressPeopleInfluencePolitical
And we owe science to the combined energies of individual men of genius, rather than to any tendency to progress inherent in civilization.
Chauncey Wright
ScienceMenProgressGeniusRather
It's odd to say we had our first African American president before our first African-American-owned movie studio, but we're making progress.
Byron Allen
ProgressAmericanSayFirstOddOur
Chemical weapons simply have no place in the 21st century. Progress in this vital area will help generate momentum to meet our goal of eliminating all weapons of mass destruction.
Ban Ki-moon
ProgressHelpMomentumGoalPlace
We can no longer allow multinationals to parade as agents of progress and democracy in the newspapers, even as they subvert it at the workplace.
John Sweeney
ProgressDemocracyWorkplaceParade
A great gulf, however, has been opened between man's material advance and his social and moral progress, a gulf in which he may one day be lost if it is not closed or narrowed.
Lester B. Pearson
GreatDayProgressManLostMoral
Social movements are at once the symptoms and the instruments of progress. Ignore them and statesmanship is irrelevant; fail to use them and it is weak.
Walter Lippmann
ProgressIgnoreWeakFailSocial
It was a natural progression for me to find that if acting was what made me most comfortable, the best thing for me to progress toward was television and film.
Chris Wood
BestProgressMeFindActingFilm
I like being able to see an innocence in people. I see a lot of beauty in youth. Young people are in progress. Their faces and bodies and minds are constantly changing. It's exciting to capture that on film.
Bernardo Bertolucci
BeautyProgressPeopleYouthYoung
Life with a scientist who is often changing jobs and is frequently away at meetings and on lecture tours is not easy. Without a secure home base, I could not have made much progress.
John Pople
LifeHomeProgressMeetingsEasy
This led me to understand that trade unionism, the instrument of working-class liberation and of social change could, and indeed should, be also an instrument of industrial progress.
Leon Jouhaux
ChangeProgressMeUnderstandTrade
Another symptom of progress toward the Singularity: ideas themselves should spread ever faster, and even the most radical will quickly become commonplace.
Vernor Vinge
ProgressIdeasWillBecomeSpread
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
WorkGoodDecisionDayProgressMan
We talked with PSG, but quickly, I knew that it wasn't where I wanted to go. In France, for me, it was only Lyon. PSG could have enabled me to make progress because they have great players, but I wanted to experience another league.
Alexandre Lacazette
GreatExperienceProgressMeGo
You've gotta find a way to get out of your own way, so you can progress in life.
Steve Carlton
LifeProgressYouFindWayOut
As we have heard, the end of al-Zarqawi is a significant blow to al-Qaida operations in Iraq. It is another clear indication of the progress we are making.
Kit Bond
ProgressEndOperationsClearMaking
I wouldn't put a big trust in what people in Silicon Valley say. They may be good at manipulating ones and zeroes and writing software, but beyond that, their contribution to human progress has been pretty dismal. I'm not impressed.
Vaclav Smil
GoodTrustProgressPeopleWriting
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