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With this transaction, Xerox greatly enhances its liquidity and has made significant progress on its turnaround pledge to generate more than $2 billion in asset sales,

would throw sand into the gears of human progress.

We're still in the process of getting this out to everybody. It's a work in progress.

We're still in an infancy. We're in the 1940s as far as I'm concerned. We haven't even caught up with our own progress yet.

We're seeing strength in technology and current optimism is based upon inventories worked down -- even Motorola indicated they're making progress in that direction, ... Techs are doing well and people will be combing their lists of stocks to buy for the long-term, but it's going to be a highly selective process.

We're looking better today than yesterday. Progress has been made, but there is still a lot of work to do in a very short amount of time.

We're not happy with the 10 percent decline, but we are making progress.

We've got a lot to do. Don't get me wrong. But we've been very pleased with the progress that has been made, and it has been a long time coming. People have been coming here for the last 20 years trying to get to this place.

The fanatics for progress often have too little appreciation of the existing.

It seems with progress you gain certain things and you lose certain things. The automobile replaced the horse and buggy but you lost all of that nice manure.

We want to progress the pipeline, China wants to progress the pipeline but they are a bit concerned about reserves, ... Also we are yet to finalize equity interest in the project. That is key if we are to go ahead with financing.

We have no progress to report. That's not good because we have precious little time before the deadline approaches.

We have no progress to report, and that is not good.

To those who can hear me, I say - do not despair. The misery that is now upon us is but the passing of greed - the bitterness of men who fear the way of human progress.

Moral excellence is the bright consummate flower of all progress.

Without knowledge there can be no sure progress. Vice and barbarism are the inseparable companions of ignorance. Nor is it too much to say that, except in rare instances, the highest virtue is attained only through intelligence.

It so happens that the world is undergoing a transformation to which no change that has yet occurred can be compared, either in scope or in rapidity.

I don't keep anything on paper (except within an actual novel in progress, at which point I need a file to keep track of plot threads, characters, and so on).

Don't hurry anything. Don't worry about the future. Don't worry about what progress you're making. Just be entirely content to be aware of what is.

Im not satisfied with the progress of the work, but I am happy that the talks are going on. It might have a negative effect if the United States joins.

Progress in the Christian life is exactly equal to the growing knowledge we gain of the Triune God in personal experience.

Whenever God begins something, we have the assurance that He will finish it. Nothing will stand in the way of Him accomplishing His purpose in this world and in our lives. What God starts, He finishes, and nobody can hinder Him. Sure, delays will happen. Just remember, God is in charge of the delays as well as the progress.

We want to test ourselves, see the progress we've made against bodies other than the UB offense and get a feel for where we are, what we need to do, and take it into the season.

We want to see progress on agriculture, we want to see the European Union come back with a better market access offer that's going to be crucial to a successful meeting in Hong Kong,

Martyrs are needed to create incidents. Incidents are needed to create revolutions. Revolutions are needed to create progress.

James's expedition to Scotland is wholly imaginary, though there appears to have been space for it during Henry's progress to the North to pay his devotions at Beverley Minster.

Specialization and organization are the basis of human progress.

My dear brothers, never forget, when you hear the progress of enlightenment vaunted, that the devil's best trick is to persuade you that he doesn't exist!

Progress, this great heresy of decay.

The world progresses only through misunderstanding.

Determine value apart from price; progress apart from activity; wealth apart from size.

Existence of an excited state is not a prerequisite for the production of inhibition; inhibition can exist apart from excitation no less than, when called forth against an excitation already in progress, it can suppress or moderate it.

I think on this issue more than any other we're going to see sort of a bipartisan longing to get something done, and hopefully you're not going to find the fisticuffs that you would find on lots of other issues. I think you'll be able to glean a sense of progress without us revealing the specifics.

All the progress we have made in philosophy ... is the result of that methodical skepticism which is the element of human freedom.

If economic progress means that we become anonymous cogs in some great machine, then progress is an empty promise.

The extension of women's rights is the basic principle of all social progress.

A soldier's life revolves around his mail. Like many others, I've been able to follow my kid's progress from the day he was born until now he is able to walk and talk a little, and although I have never seen him I know him very well.

Religion is detrimental to the progress of society.

Contentment is wanting what you have. Ambition is wanting what another has. Progress comes from wanting what nobody has.

Tradition is the albatross around the neck of progress.

Scientific Progress goes boink?

I've never sat down to quantify how many hours I actually spend on the strip. I use the deadlines to estimate my progress; each month I know that I have to produce so many strips, and by the end of the month I'll make sure that I have.

Occasionally we sigh for an earlier day when we could just look at the stars without worrying whether they were theirs or ours.

For all the progress, we recognize we're very far from the finish line

Human progress depends on unreasonable people. Reasonable people accept the world as they meet it; unreasonable people persist in trying to change it. Well, I'm Bob and I'm an unreasonable person. And if TED is anything, it is the olympics of unreasonable people.

We'll see what progress can be made on Tuesday.

We'll see if we can make progress there.

We are (also) making steady progress on the planned sale of certain international operations. We expect to reach some final decisions in this area over the next few months.

We are all satisfied at the progress that has been made, and our report will be before the (U.N.) Security Council very shortly.

(The referendum) was a very hopeful day for peace, an exciting day for a country that only a few short years ago was ruled by a brutal tyrant. And I'm pleased at the progress being made,

When blocked or defeated in an enterprise I had much at heart, I always turned immediately to another field of work where progress looked possible, biding my time for a chance to resume the obstructed road.

In the modern world the intelligence of public opinion is the one indispensable condition for social progress.

Here was a place where men and life and death had reached the lowest form of degradation. How could any reward in national progress even faintly justify the establishment and operation of such a place?

Without death there would be no awareness of life, and the recurring selection and renewal that has caused life's progress would be ended.

'Time's noblest offspring is the last.' This line of Bishop Berkeley's expresses the real cause of the belief in progress in the animal creation.

I realized that the future of aviation, to which I had devoted so much of my life, depended less on the perfection of aircraft than on preserving the epoch-evolved environment of life, and that this was true of all technological progress.

There is no media freedom in China. As a result, the society is corrupt and lacks productivity. It is unable to adjust itself for progress. This will lead to the country's eventual downfall.

I see a little progress, ... So as long as I keep seeing that, then I'm willing to give him everything I've got.

The progress of despotism tends to disappoint its own purpose.

When we destroy something crated by man we call it vandalism but when we destroy something by nature we call it progress.

Here's what you must do. It's pretty simple, really, but I didn't say easy. It's what sets those who succeed apart from those who don't: You must have a sincere and burning desire to achieve what you dream, dedicate yourself to making progress, and take control of your circumstances to change your body.

Let us together commence a journey of peace, harmony and progress in South Asia.

If everyone enjoyed the unrestricted use of his faculties and the free disposition of the fruits of his labor, social progress would be ceaseless, uninterrupted, and unfailing.

There is not a tool, an implement, or a machine that has not resulted in a decrease in the contribution of human labor. Labor is not made permanently idle [though]; when replaced in one special category... it turns its attack against other obstacles on the main road to progress.

When misguided public opinion honors what is despicable and despises what is honorable, punishes virtue and rewards vice, encourages what is harmful and discourages what is useful, applauds falsehood and smothers truth under indifference or insult, a nation turns its back on progress and can be restored only by the terrible lessons of catastrophe.

We accept and welcome... as conditions to which we must accommodate ourselves, great inequality of environment; the concentration of business, industrial and commercial, in the hands of a few; and the law of competition between these, as being not only beneficial, but essential for the future progress of the race.

What is the thing that matters most to making progress right now?

At the most subtle level, your inner intelligence is steadily progressing along the corridors of eternity.

Whether it's in in livability, transportation, or the environment, Portland is always leading the country. We have more to do before we achieve our goals, but we should all be encouraged by our progress and this recognition.

Revolution does not insure progress. You may overturn thrones, but what proof that anything better will grow upon the soil?

Labor, with its coarse raiment and its bare right arm, has gone forth in the earth, achieving the truest conquests and rearing the most durable monuments. It has opened the domain of matter and the empire of the mind. The wild beast has fled before it, and the wilderness has fallen back.... its triumphal march is the progress of civilization.

Progress-progress is the dirtiest word in the language-who ever told us- And made us believe it-that to take a step forward was necessarily, was always A good idea?

I don't feel like a legend. I feel like a work in progress.

progress, whatever your definition of it, is not inevitable.

We cannot let the right wing roll back more than thirty years of social progress.

I'm a work in progress.

As you get older and you progress in your career, you start to want to have more control over things and you have ideas.

The more we progress the more we tend to progress. We advance not in arithmetical but in geometrical progression. We draw compound interest on the whole capital of knowledge and virtue which has been accumulated since the dawning of time.

At the present rate of progress, it is almost impossible to imagine any technical feat that cannot be achieved - if it can be achieved at all - within the next few hundred years.

One can only call that youth healthful which refuses to be reconciled to old ways and which, foolishly or shrewdly, combats the old. This is nature's charge and all progress hinges upon it.

I am not a liberal, not a conservative, not a believer in gradual progress, not a monk. I should like to be a free artist and nothing more.

No competition, no progress.

Society's dependence on fossil fuels is jeopardising social and economic progress.

We must turn the greatest collective challenge facing humankind today, climate change, into the greatest opportunity for common progress towards a sustainable future

Mr Palliser was one of those politicians in possessing whom England has perhaps more reason to be proud than of any other of her resources, and who, as a body, give to her that exquisite combination of conservatism and progress which is her present strength and best security for the future.

It appears that my worst fears have been realised: we have made progress in everything yet nothing has changed.

I think if I pick the right thing to spend my time doing, then time moves differently, because I really can get fully immersed in things and feel very alive and challenged, but in a good way. I feel a sense of progress.

Human beings are works in progress that mistakenly think they're finished.

Human beings are works in progress that mistakenly think they’re finished. The person you are right now is as transient, as fleeting and as temporary as all the people you’re ever been. The one constant in our lives is change.

But in the end, mastery involves working and working and showing little improvement, perhaps with a few moments of flow pulling you along, then making a little progress, and then working and working on that new, slightly higher plateau again. It's grueling, to be sure. But that's not the problem; that's the solution.

While I will always have the utmost respect for the superhuman out-of-bounds freestyle and extreme stunts that seem to continually progress beyond our imaginable limits, my highest appreciation goes out to the simple rider who's out there just for the experience.

One thing I've learned about the NBA is that you can have one good year, but you've always got to be progressing and working and making yourself better.

It is the hard-boiled employer, not the soft-hearted species, that incites most of our strikes and does most ot endanger the harmonious progress of democracy.

You can't stop progress, but you can help decide what is progress and what isn't.

The reports on human progress are beginning to come in, and some are a little discouraging.

And there hasn't been much progress in Darwinism since [the life of Darwin].

Imagination is what has driven human progress since very early times.

Discontent is the source of all trouble,but also of all progress, in individuals and nations.

I've heard claims that we can wish our way to perfect, permanent wellness, but I haven't seen any proof of that. Sickness and death are part of life. But you can optimize your life. You can make progress as you strive toward perfection.

Art is limited to the infinite, and beginning there cannot progress.