Cipolla's words were a comic twist on the observation that society makes progress despite excessive pessimism and abundant stupidity.
Now, the legislation I'm signing today also makes progress on another front for which many Americans have long waited.
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Kudlow has long recognized what makes progress and prosperity possible: tax cuts, sound money -- low or no inflation, free trade, deregulation and spending restraints.
Kudlow has long recognized what makes progress and prosperity possible: tax cuts, sound money -- low or no inflation, free trade, deregulation and spending re-straints.
Broadly speaking, the new START treaty makes progress in several areas.
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Following a full briefing, the Chinese will make plans for their next manned mission, the Shenzhou-10, as the country steadily makes progress toward its goal of having a permanent space station in orbit between 2020 and 2022.
Sanctions should roll back, with Israel and Arab state endorsements, if Iran makes tangible progress in talks.
Rashwan said holding a Mideast peace conference in Washington with a U.S. presidential campaign in full swing makes real progress unlikely.
And the record will be even stronger if Mrs Gregoire makes the progress she hopes on education reform, health-care costs and government accountability.
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Rather than letting voters decide how their councils are doing, Whitehall monitors them through inspections and makes them report progress on over 1, 000 performance indicators.
But euro membership also makes it difficult to make fast progress on wage competitiveness.
Yes, in a very narrow sense the Constitution makes the political branches partners for progress.
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This process makes IT even costlier when technologies that progress at different rates are bound together in the same device.
As we all know, the openness that makes the Internet a force for unprecedented progress can also enable wrongdoing on a vast scale.
This makes some independent observers sceptical of reported progress.
To be fair, the report also makes a number of positive observations about progress towards collaboration and the way some examples the researchers looked at had improved communication and understanding, led to better decision-making and facilitating best practice.
The biggest issue may be the relentless progress of our technology, that makes older devices and all the component technologies used in them obsolete.
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Basis has made a lot of progress on the habits and dashboards side that makes them stand out from the Fitbits and Jawbones of the world.
It makes a huge difference whether humanity uses its assets to achieve progress, or whether it strives to stop and reverse it, essentially sacrificing the less fortunate to the climate gods.
At Shirelands Language College, an inner-city school in Birmingham, England, a portal called the Shirelands Learning Gateway makes it easier for parents to follow their children's progress, and it helps teachers and students keep track of schoolwork and take advantage of individualized instruction.
We discovered that nothing makes people feel happier and more engaged at work than making meaningful progress on something they care about.
"There's so much positive momentum on the battlefield that it makes sense not to give up while we are starting to make progress, " O'Hanlon says.
His main thesis is that the buzz of urban life, and the opportunities it offers for co-operation and collaboration, is what attracts people to the city, which in turn makes cities into the engines of art, commerce, science and progress.
All this makes it highly unlikely, by the way, that there will be any progress on a climate-change bill in time for December's global meeting in Copenhagen.
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Because it preserves excess capacity, in a way that makes it more difficult for new business to grow and thrive, and it also holds back the progress of bigger more successful businesses.
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