Advance Quotes
1037 quotes by 816 authors
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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The writer is an explorer. Every step is an advance into a new land.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Every sentence must do one of two things-reveal character or advance the action.
— Kurt Vonnegut
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What must novel dialogue . . . really be and do? It must be pointed, intentional, relevant. It must crystallize situation. It must express character.…
— Elizabeth Bowen
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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
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Every paragraph should accomplish two goals: advance the story, and develop your characters as complex human beings.
— Nancy Kress
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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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