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“Substantial progress was made in spreading our foreign trade to other areas. Our total trade with Northwest Europe in the first 8 months of last year was 42.3 per cent above the corresponding period the year previous, and our total trade with Asia was up 13.5 per cent. For the first time since 1919, the United States in the first 8 months of 1956 accounted for less than 60 percent of our total trade.”

Years Firsts Made States Lasts United United States Progress Months Periods Percent First Time Europe Areas Trade Cents Last Year Asia Corresponding Foreign Trade

Author:Ramon Magsaysay

“Every step in human progress, from the first feeble stirrings in the abyss of time, has been opposed by the great majority of men. Every valuable thing that has been added to the store of man's possessions has been derided by them when it was new, and destroyed by them when they had the power. They have fought every new truth ever heard of, and they have killed every truth-seeker who got into their hands.”

Men Firsts Humans Has Beens Hands Steps Progress Heard Majority Possession Valuable Stores Destroyed Abyss Seekers Every Step Stirring Human Progress Valuable Things Truth Seekers

Author:H. L. Mencken

“John declared that "Christ received not of the fulness at the first," but that he "continued from grace to grace until he received a fulnesss and thus he was called the Son of God, because he received not of the fulness at the first." Thus is it with us all. We must work out our salvation and exaltation by coming to this earth. Man must be born into mortality and live and die that he may continue in his progress toward eternal life and exaltation.”

Men Life Firsts May Earth Dies Christ Born Grace Progress Son Eternal Salvation Work Out Mortality Eternal Life Exaltation

Author:Alma P Burton

“The cause which is blocking all progress today is the subtle scepticism which whispers in a million ears that things are not good enough to be worth improving. If the world is good we are revolutionaries, if the world is evil we must be conservatives. These essays, futile as they are considered as serious literature, are yet ethically sincere, since they seek to remind men that things must be loved first and improved afterwards.”

Ifs Men World Firsts Enough Today Evil Literature Causes Millions Progress Serious Ears Block Revolutionary Subtle Good Enough Sincere Improving Essays Not Good Enough Scepticism

Author:Gilbert K. Chesterton

“We may make progress only by freeing ourselves from the rut of the past, but without this rut an orderly society would hardly be possible in the first place.”

Firsts May Past Progress Orderly Ruts

Author:Robert Heilbroner

“From its first faint glimmerings, History shews Man's constant progress as a beast of prey. As such he conquers every land, subdues the fruit-fed races, founds mighty realms by subjugating other subjugators, forms states and sets up civilisations, to enjoy his prey at rest.”

Men Firsts States Form Found Enjoy Race Progress Land Constant Fruit Conquer Realms Beast Feds Prey Civilisation

Book:Religion and Art

Source: Religion and Art

“Then let every one of us, being warned by this sentence of the angel, acknowledge that he as yet cleaves to first principles, or, at least, does not comprehend all those things which are necessary to be known; and that therefore progress is to be made to the very end of life: for this is our wisdom, to be learners to the end.”

Firsts Doe Made Ends Known Principles Progress Angel Sentences Acknowledge End Of Life Learners

Book:John Calvin's Commentaries On Zechariah And Malachi (Annotated Edition)

Source: John Calvin's Commentaries On Zechariah And Malachi (Annotated Edition)

“I am a technophile, so there is no such thing as a first draft. The first draft plunges on, and about a quarter of the way through it I realise I'm doing things wrong, so I start rewriting it. What you call the first draft becomes rather like a caterpillar; it is progressing fairly slowly, but there is movement up and down its whole length, the whole story is being changed. I call this draft zero, telling myself how the story is supposed to go.”

Way Firsts Whole Stories Progress Movement Changed Length Zero Realising Quarters Up And Down Plunge Rewriting Caterpillars

Author:Terry Pratchett

“Christian, that sin which first came between you and God is bad, but that is not the last step in the progress of sin. The most guilty part in this quadruple sin is to hide it, deny it, ignore it, refust to confess it, refuse to repent of it!”

Firsts Christian Lasts Sin Steps Progress Refuse Deny Guilty Repent

Author:John R. Rice

“Liberalism is fundamentally an ideology of liberation that has throughout history risen in protest against the totalitarian and anti-human movements of various kinds, such as communism and nazism. It is therefore natural that the Progress Party with its liberal base once again stands first in the line and takes up the fight when a new fascist ideology as Islamism is spreading throughout the world.”

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Author:Carl I. Hagen

“The record of the rocks contains very little, other than bacteria and one-celled plants until, about a billion years ago, after some three billion years of invisible progress, a major breakthrough occurred. The first many-celled creatures appeared on earth.”

Years Firsts Littles Earth Three Records Progress Rocks Creatures Majors Years Ago Plant Billions Invisible Breakthrough Bacteria

Author:Robert Jastrow

“Louis B. Mayer is one of those with a claim to posessing the equation... he began to buy up nickelodeon arcades in the years before the First World War in and around Boston. He had noticed that people liked going into the dark to see the light... the appeal of the movies is beyond the sensible, rational or the hard-working. Going into the dark, afte centuries of progress in which mankind has staggered toward artificial light, smacks of delicious perversity.”

“That wall, embodied in the First Amendment, is perhaps America's most important contribution to political progress on this planet.”

Firsts Important America Political Progress Atheism Planets Wall Positive Atheism Contribution Amendments First Amendment Important Contributions

Author:Lowell P. Weicker, Jr.

“Congratulations to the Auburn team and coach Malzahn. The piece for us was that we took some first and ten's and could not get a third down conversion. We kept putting the defense on the field. We tackled, we played hard, but offensively we did not execute. We are a work in progress. Certainly a group of men that are committed to fixing things. But frankly we did not get it done today.”

Men Firsts Hard Done Today Pieces Progress Groups Team Fields Ten Thirds Committed Defense Coaches Conversion Tigers Congratulations Fixing Get It Done Work In Progress Lsu Auburn Fixing Things

Author:Les Miles

“Necessity is always the first stimulus to industry, and those who conduct it with prudence, perseverance and energy will rarely fail. Viewed in this light, the necessity of labor is not a chastisement, but a blessing,--the very root and spring of all that we call progress in individuals and civilization in nations.”

Firsts Light Individual Energy Nations Progress Failing Industry Civilization Blessing Spring Labor Roots Perseverance Prudence Stimulus Chastisement

Book:Self-help: With Illustrations of Character and Conduct

Source: Self-help: With Illustrations of Character and Conduct

“Method means primarily a way or path of transit. From this we are to understand that the first idea of method is a progressive transition from one step to another in any course. If in the right course, it will be the true method; if in the wrong, we cannot hope to progress.”

Ifs Way Firsts Mean Ideas Courses Steps Path Progress Method Progressive Transition

Author:Samuel Taylor Coleridge

“The art of flirtation is dying. A man and woman are either in love these days or just friends. In the realm of love, reticence and sophistication should go hand in hand, for one of the joys of life is discovery. Nowadays, instead of progressing from vous to tu, from Mister to Jim, it's 'darling' and 'come to my place' in the first hour.”

“But weightier still are the contentment which comes from work well done, the sense of the value of science for its own sake, insatiable curiosity, and, above all, the pleasure of masterly performance and of the chase. These are the effective forces which move the scientist. The first condition for the progress of science is to bring them into play.”

“Life is like invading Russia. A blitz start, massed shakos, plumes dancing like a flustered henhouse; a period of svelte progress recorded in ebullient despatches as the enemy falls back; then the beginning of a long, morale-sapping trudge with rations getting shorter and the first snowflakes upon your face. The enemy burns Moscow and you yield to General January, whose fingernails are very icicles. Bitter retreat. Harrying Cossacks. Eventually you fall beneath a boy-gunner's grapeshot while crossing some Polish river not even marked on your general's map.”

“When the first people started to argue against slavery, for example, this was a new idea. If you crowd-source, you'd never come up with this. And so the - exactly the kind of progress we've made couldn't be made if we depend it on crowd-sourcing.”

People Ifs Firsts Kind Made Ideas Progress Example Source Depends Slavery Come Up Crowds Arguing New Ideas

Author:Rebecca Goldstein

“Jews were the first to believe that history itself has meaning and that progress, not repetition, is the law of life.”

Firsts Believe Law Progress Jew Repetition Laws Of Life

Author:Barbara Ward, Baroness Jackson of Lodsworth

“As an element in human progress, the right of private property, in importance, has taken first and almost only place in the current systems of law and of political economy. While admitting its great importance, we cannot conceal the fact that the writers on those subjects have wholly failed to distinguish between its use and its abuse, or to recognize its rational and equitable limits.”

“Nothing of that which is conducive to help man, collectively or individually, to live not "happily" but less unhappily in this world, ought to be indifferent to the Theosophist-Occultist. It is no concern of his whether his help benefits a man in his worldly or spiritual progress; his first duty is to be ever ready to help if he can, without stopping to philosophize.”

Ifs Men World Firsts Helping Spiritual Progress This World Ready Duty Ought Benefits Concern Indifferent Stopping Worldly Spiritual Progress

Author:H. P. Blavatsky

“The culture of any country is gauged first by its progress in art.”

Firsts Art Country Culture Progress

Author:Ignacy Jan Paderewski

“The few have said, Think! The many have said, Believe! The first doubt was the womb and cradle of progress, and from the first doubt, man has continued to advance.”

Thinking Men Firsts Believe Said Doubt Progress He Man Womb Cradle

Book:The Works of Robert G. Ingersoll

Source: The Works of Robert G. Ingersoll

“People will set a New Year's resolution: "I'm gonna get in shape this year." But they don't set a parameter for how they're gonna measure it. Or if they do measure it, they wait until the first day of the next year. You'd never run a business that way. Document your progress.”

People Ifs Way Years Firsts Running Next Waiting Progress Shapes Resolution New Year Documents Next Year Parameters New Year's Resolutions Getting In Shape

Author:Jack LaLanne

“We are not here to give challenges to anyone, but we will also not take challenges casually. Our defence mechanisms would be the best in the world. A secure India is the first requirement for the country to progress and achieve new heights.”

World Giving Firsts Country Would Be Challenges Progress Achieve India Secure Height Being The Best Mechanism Requirements Governance Defence Defence Mechanism

Author:Narendra Modi

“Ten years have now passed since many of us first felt the jolt of history-when the second plane crashed into the South Tower of the World Trade Center. We knew from that moment that things can go terribly wrong in our world-not because life is unfair, or moral progress impossible, but because we have failed, generation after generation, to abolish the delusions of our ignorant ancestors.”

“The policy of man consists, at first, in endeavoring to arrive at a state equal to that of animals, whom nature has furnished with food, clothing, and shelter.”

Men Firsts States Animal Progress Policy Equal Clothings Shelter

Book:Voltaire – The Philosophical Works: Treatise On Tolerance, Philosophical Dictionary, Candide, Letters on England, Plato’s Dream, Dialogues, The Study of Nature, Ancient Faith and Fable, Zadig…: From the French writer, historian and philosopher, famous for his wit, his attacks on the established Catholic Church, and his advocacy of freedom of religion and freedom of expression

Source: Voltaire – The Philosophical Works: Treatise On Tolerance, Philosophical Dictionary, Candide, Letters on England, Plato’s Dream, Dialogues, The Study of Nature, Ancient Faith and Fable, Zadig…: From the French writer, historian and philosopher, famous for his wit, his attacks on the established Catholic Church, and his advocacy of freedom of religion and freedom of expression

“What is the first step to take and how do you measure your progress? How far have you gone and how close are you to getting to your goals?”

Firsts Goal Steps Gone Progress First Steps

Author:Michael Gerber

“If we trace the progress of our minds, and with attention observe how it repeats, adds together, and unites its simple ideas received from sensation or reflection, it will lead us farther than at first, perhaps, we should have imagined.”

Ifs Should Mind Firsts Ideas Together Simple Attention Progress Reflection Should Have Add Repeats Sensations Simple Ideas

Book:An Essay Concerning Human Understanding

Source: An Essay Concerning Human Understanding

“If Jesus was alive today, we would kill him with lethal injection. I call that progress. We would have to kill him for the same reason he was killed the first time. His ideas are just too liberal.”

Ifs Firsts Ideas Reason Today Jesus Alive Progress First Time Live For Today Injection Lethal Injection

Book:Armageddon in Retrospect

Source: Armageddon in Retrospect

“Every good laboratory consists of first rate men working in great harmony to insure the progress of science; but down at the end of the hall is an unsociable, wrong-headed fellow working on unprofitable lines, and in his hands lies the hope of discovery.”

Men Firsts Ends Hands Lying Lines Progress Discovery Harmony Fellows Rate Very Good Halls Laboratory

Author:Ernest Rutherford

“At first, it must be remembered, that [women] can never accomplish anything until they put womanhood ahead of wifehood, and make motherhood the highest office on the social scale.”

Firsts Remember Social Women Wife Progress Office Highest Accomplish Motherhood Scales Remembered Womanhood

Author:Herbert Croly

“Act first! The ideas will follow, and if not - well, it's progress”

Ifs Firsts Wells Ideas Progress

Book:Shipwreck: The Coast of Utopia

Source: Shipwreck: The Coast of Utopia

“Liberalism should be found not striving to spread bureaucracy but striving to set bounds to it. True liberalism seeks all legitimate freedom first in the confident belief that without such freedom the pursuit of all other blessings and benefits is vain. That belief is the foundation of all American progress, political as well as economic.”

Should Firsts Wells Political Found Belief Progress Economic Blessing Benefits Foundation Strive Bounds Spread Pursuit Vain Liberalism Bureaucracy

Book:Herbert Hoover: Containing the Public Messages, Speeches, and Statements of the President

Source: Herbert Hoover: Containing the Public Messages, Speeches, and Statements of the President

“My goal is to help elect not only the first but second woman president. That will be real progress. I believe our next presidential election will see women at the top of the ticket for both parties.”

Firsts Believe Real Helping Next I Believe Goal President Party Progress Election Presidential Being Real Tickets Presidential Election

Author:Barbara Lee

“The first step toward the management of disease was replacement of demon theories and humours theories by the germ theory. That very step, the beginning of hope, in itself dashed all hopes of magical solutions. It told workers that progress would be made stepwise, at great effort, and that a persistent, unremitting care would have to be paid to a discipline of cleanliness. So it is with software engineering today.”

“To bring one's self to believe in a truth that has just dawned upon one is the first step towards progress; to persuade others is the second.”

Firsts Believe Self Steps Progress First Steps

Book:Studies on Fermentation: The Diseases of Beer, Their Causes, and the Means of Preventing Them

Source: Studies on Fermentation: The Diseases of Beer, Their Causes, and the Means of Preventing Them

“The invention progress is tough sometimes. When I first choreographed the Drunken Master in the past with Jackie Chan, I spent months to create the whole sequence. There were no fight sequences before; it's just a name. I have to choreograph it all by myself.”

Firsts Sometimes Whole Past Fighting Names Progress Masters Months Tough Invention Sequence Jackie

Author:Yuen Woo-ping

“I'm at my most productive before I even have my first cup of coffee. I only get slower and stupider as the day progresses.”

Firsts Progress Coffee Cups Productive Coffee Cup

Author:Anthony Bourdain

“Fellow countrymen: At this second appearing to take the oath of the Presidential office, there is less occasion for an extended address than there was at the first...The progress of our arms, upon which all else chiefly depends, is as well known to the public as to myself; and it is, I trust, reasonably satisfactory and encouraging to all. With high hope for the future, no prediction in regard to it is ventured.”

Firsts Wells Known Progress Arms Depends Office Regard Fellows Occasions Presidential Addresses Predictions Well Known Oath Appearing Countrymen Hope For The Future Inaugural Address

Author:Abraham Lincoln

“And so we said to General Motors that the solution had to be a first year increase, which had to be sizeable because we bad to catch up with the lost position as against the cost of living and we had to make some progress.”

Years Firsts Said Lost Progress Position Cost Solutions Increase Motor Cost Of Living General Motors

Author:Leonard Woodcock

“The US is often the first to call for transparency and integrity in the reporting of other governments. It has never provided transparency or integrity in its reporting on the war in Iraq. It has downplayed the growth of the insurgency and other civil conflicts. It exaggerated progress in the development of Iraqi forces, and has reported meaningless macroecomic figures claiming 'progress' in the face of steadily deteriorating economic conditions for most Iraqis outside the Kurdish security zone, and does so in the face of almost incredible incompetence by USAID and the Corps of Engineers.”

“My students - all adults - bring a lot of writing skill to the first class, and they and I get better as the class progresses.”

Writing Firsts Class Progress Students Skills Adults Get Better First Class Writing Skills

Author:James Thayer

“A first-person voice helps to ensure the uniformity and cohesiveness of the narrative; it gathers unto itself incidents and characters in its unstoppable progress toward the story's end.”

Firsts Persons Ends Character Helping Stories Voice Progress Narrative Incidents First Person Uniformity Unstoppable Cohesiveness

Author:Norman Lock

“The first issue that compelled me was a very strange split between India being highly development scientifically (we were the third biggest scientific manpower in the world then) and yet at the same time struggling with amazing poverty. The linear equation that says that modern science equals progress and the reduction of poverty did not apply to India. It wasn't working.”

World Firsts Poverty Struggle Issues Progress Modern Strange Development Thirds India Splits Compelled Equations Reduction Linear Modern Science Manpower Linear Equations

Author:Vandana Shiva

“When men and women think, the first step to progress is taken.”

Thinking Men Firsts Steps Taken Progress Men And Women First Steps

Author:Elizabeth Cady Stanton

“Science walks forward on two feet, namely theory and experiment. Sometimes it is one foot which is put forward first, sometimes the other, but continuous progress is only made by the use of both.”

Firsts Made Two Sometimes Use Walks Progress Feet Theory Experiments

Author:Robert Andrews Millikan

“There is no single test or formula for producing moral progress anymore than there is for generating scientific truths. It is a process involving theoreticians, fact-gatherers, protestors, martyrs for the cause, authors of first- person narratives who change the way we see and evaluate the distribution of harms and benefits.”

Way Firsts Persons Facts Causes Process Moral Progress Benefits Tests Harm Narrative Formulas Distribution Martyr Evaluate Involving First Person Scientific Truth

Author:Catherine Wilson