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The way of the samurai is found in death. When it comes to either or, there is only the quick choice of death. It is… — Nabeshima Naoshige
Prayer is of transcendent importance. Prayer is the mightiest agent to advance God's work. Praying hearts and hands only can do God's work. Prayer succeeds… — Edward McKendree Bounds
The clever, albeit fragile, coalition against terrorism brought together by the U.S. government might be able to advance the transition from classical international law to… — Jurgen Habermas
Too much openness and you accept every notion, idea, and hypothesis-which is tantamount to knowing nothing. Too much skepticism-especially rejection of new ideas before they… — Carl Sagan
Last week I told my psychiatrist, 'I keep thinking about suicide', and he told me from now I have to pay in advance. — Rodney Dangerfield
There are three ways in which a ruler can bring misfortune on his army: By commanding the army to advance or to retreat, being ignorant… — Sun Tzu
When the enemy's envoy's speak in humble terms, but continues his preparations, he will advance. When their language is deceptive but the enemy pretentiously advances,… — Sun Tzu
In war, numbers alone confer no advantage. Do not advance relying on sheer military power. — Sun Tzu
We must, therefore, be confident that the general measures we have adopted will produce the results we expect. most important in this connection is the… — Carl von Clausewitz
After we have thought out everything carefully in advance and have sought and found without prejudice the most plausible plan, we must not be ready… — Carl von Clausewitz
People are the common denominator of progress. So... no improvement is possible with unimproved people, and advance is certain when people are liberated and educated.… — John Kenneth Galbraith
The only 'good' learning is that which is in advance of development. — Lev S. Vygotsky
With goals you can create the future in advance. — Tony Robbins
Her silent course advance With inoffensive pace, that spinning sleeps On her soft axle. — John Milton
He who is silent is forgotten; he who does not advance falls back; he who stops is overwhelmed; out distanced, crushed; he who ceases t… — Henri Frederic Amiel
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

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