Advance Quotes

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You consider war to be inevitable? Very good. Let everyone who advocates war be enrolled in a special regiment of advance-guards, for the front of… — Leo Tolstoy
In private enterprises men may advance or recede, whereas they who aim at empire have no alternative between the highest success and utter downfall. — Tacitus
Never refuse any advance of friendship, for if nine out of ten bring you nothing, one alone may repay you. — Claudine Guerin de Tencin
In physiology, as in all other sciences, no discovery is useless, no curiosity misplaced or too ambitious, and we may be certain that every advance… — Ernest Starling
Science in England is not a profession: its cultivators are scarcely recognised even as a class. Our language itself contains no single term by which… — Charles Babbage
The solitary ascent of the Dru had the immediate effect of expanding the horizons of my ideas about mountaineering. It made me aware of possibilities… — Walter Bonatti
I can't turn around without hearing about some 'civil rights advance'! White people seem to think the black ought to be shouting 'hallelujah'! Four hundred… — Malcolm X
The mind and spirit of man advance when he is tried by suffering. ... so suffering and tribulation free man from the petty affairs of… — Abdu'l-BahÃ¡
If individuality has no play, society does not advance; if individuality breaks out of all bounds, society perishes. — Thomas Huxley
Indomitable in retreat, invincible in advance; insufferable in victory. — Winston Churchill
It is only by doing things others have not that one can advance. — George S. Patton
This past Christmas, I told my girlfriend for months in advance that all I wanted was an Xbox. That's it. Beginning and end of list,… — Anthony Jeselnik
The most original of authors are not so because they advance what is new, but more because they know how to say something, as if… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Who is sure of their own motives can in confidence advance or retreat. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
One way to sell a consumer something in the future is simply to get his or her permission in advance. — Seth Godin
If you wish to advance into the infinite, explore the finite in all directions. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
God's children improve all advantages to advance their grand end; they labour to grow better by blessings and crosses, and to make sanctified use of… — Richard Sibbes
The advance of scientific knowledge does not seem to make either our universe or our inner life in it any less mysterious. — John B. S. Haldane
The suppression of uncomfortable ideas may be common in religion or in politics, but it is not the path to knowledge; it has no in… — Carl Sagan
If you wish in this world to advance your merits you're bound to enhance; you must stir it and stump it, and blow your own… — William Gilbert

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