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The price we pay for our advance in civilization is a loss of happiness through the heightening of the sense of guilt. — Sigmund Freud
Perhaps some day in the dim future it will be possible to advance the computations faster than the weather advances and at a cost less… — Lewis Fry Richardson
Doubt is a precipice on the way to God. Blessed is he who is freed from its bonds. He who fares without any doubt, adhere… — Unknown Author
There has been a vigorous acceleration of health, resource and education programs designed to advance the role of the American Indian in our society. Last… — Dwight D. Eisenhower
It is just not enough to strengthen the secret services for the fight against terrorism but it's also necessary to advance dialogue between cultures. — Horst Kohler
We cannot advance without new experiments in living, but no wise man tries every day what he has proved wrong the day before. — James Truslow Adams
We live in the hope and faith that, by the advance of molecular physics, we shall by-and-by be able to see our way as clearly… — Thomas Huxley
The qualities which technique requires for its advance are precisely those characteristics of a technical order which do not represent indivisual intelligence...The individual, in order… — Jacques Ellul
Personally I do not resort to force- not even the force of law- to advance moral reforms. I prefer education, argument, persuasion, and above all… — Rutherford B. Hayes
I am not myself apt to be alarmed at innovations recommended by reason. That dread belongs to those whose interests or prejudices shrink from the… — Thomas Jefferson
Our job is to make change. Our job is to connect to people, to interact with them in a way that leaves them better than… — Seth Godin
The great question is, can war be outlawed from the world? If so, it would mark the greatest advance in civilization since the Sermon on… — Douglas MacArthur
Today [the voice of women] is being heard loud and clear. But I do not read the welcome triumph of feminism, social, economic, and creative,… — E. O. Wilson
It is my contention that a really great novel is made with a knife and not a pen. A novelist must have the intestinal fortitude… — Frank Yerby
The writer is an explorer. Every step is an advance into a new land. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
Every sentence must do one of two things-reveal character or advance the action. — Kurt Vonnegut
What must novel dialogue . . . really be and do? It must be pointed, intentional, relevant. It must crystallize situation. It must express character.… — Elizabeth Bowen
Jane Austen, much in advance of her day, was a mistress of the use of the dialogue. She used it as dialogue should be used-to… — Elizabeth Bowen
Every paragraph should accomplish two goals: advance the story, and develop your characters as complex human beings. — Nancy Kress
The calculus was the first achievement of modern mathematics and it is difficult to overestimate its importance. I think it defines more unequivocally than anything… — John von Neumann

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