“At the first meeting we had five people and three stuck around. The next year things started to roll. It just grew progressively and we had more people who were willing to put in the work.”
“My overall goal is to be an Olympian. It may seem a little bit far-fetched right now, but after improving this much in just one year I feel I have a lot more progress to make.”
“I wouldn't say I've progressed since last year. I don't think I'm going to play in college, so this is my last year playing and I'm going to play as hard as I can.”
“With the National Guard being such a high presence in the war, they felt it was important for them to see what the guard is doing, give them a pat on the back for a job well done, and come back here and give a report on their progress.”
“This team has made a lot of accolades as the year has progressed. The Sweet 16 would just be another step. We're taking it one step at a time, and we're just looking forward to everything that comes from it.”
They say if you're a better person today than you were yesterday you're well on the road to perfection. So I figure if I'm a real snot today, tomorrow I should make huge progress.
The adventure is which I have shared so passionately is not over--this adventure with its doubt, failure, the dreariness of no progress, then a glimpse of light, a hope, a hypothesis confirmed; and then after weeks and months of anxious perseverance, the intoxication of success.
The idea [passing the 17th amendment] benefited from a unique political and cultural atmosphere that consumed a nation during the late 19th and early 20th centuries-a progressive populism promoting simultaneously radical egalitarianism and centralized authoritarianism.
On the other hand, the waging of peace as a science, as an art, is in its infancy. But we can trace its growth, its steady progress, and the time will come when there will be particular individuals designated to assume responsibility for and leadership of this movement.
Until the last great war, a general expectation of material improvement was an idea peculiar to Western man. Now war and its aftermath have made economic and social progress a political imperative in every quarter of the globe.