Faced with such lines, humans tend to imagine progress as an escape from linear waiting.
These are countries where it takes a little faith to imagine progress!
"It may be difficult to imagine progress in this current climate when many Israelis doubt that a willing and capable partner for peace even exists," Clinton said, neglecting to mention that Netanyahu himself is not a willing partner and has explicitly and repeatedly said that he is not open to a Palestinian state.
This series began with the English dissenter, John Bunyan, in Bedford prison, imagining the progress to redemption of a humble pilgrim.
Ghassan Khatib, vice president of Birzeit University in the West Bank and a former Palestinian Authority spokesman, said, "It would be difficult to imagine any progress without change in Israel's settlement policy".
Kariman imagined the progress of the works they performed: to supplicate deities in temples, honour the photo-frames of someone's ancestors, adorn the hair of wives and mothers and daughters.
Chung-in Moon of Yonsei University, an architect of the "sunshine policy", argues that decrepit North Korea is on the brink of opening up just as China did three decades ago, because Kim Jong Il recognises that his legitimacy now rests on future prosperity.But outside help is hard to imagine without progress on the nuclear issue.
Boris World Kingg, in which dramatist Tom Crawshaw farcically imagined the progress of the current Mayor of London to higher political responsibilities, and Patrick Ryecart's When Blair Had Bush and Bunga, in which Tony, George W and Silvio Berlusconi plotted the path to war in Iraq during a holiday at Cliff Richard's Caribbean villa.
To assume most Muslims are moderate is to imagine that progress is inevitable but if we want the next generation of Muslims to have values we associate with being moderate, we need to be prepared to make an argument for a progressive Islam.
If every state had a department of regenerative medicine, imagine the progress we might make!
