Advance Quotes
1037 Advance quotes by 816 unique authors
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The tragedy of government welfare programs is not just wasted taxpayer money but wasted lives. The effects of welfare in encouraging the break-up of low-income…
— Michael Tanner
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The credulous ... advance the authority of hearsay in place of reasons for possible success or facts that can be demonstrated.
— Vannoccio Biringuccio
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It is not the multitude of hard duties, it is not the constraint and contention that advance us in our Christian course. On the contrary,…
— Francois Fenelon
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One of the anomalies of modern ecology is the creation of two groups, each of which seems barely aware of the existence of the other.…
— Aldo Leopold
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What about the accusation that Hollywood is trying to advance its liberal agenda? Well, the fact is, while the creative community admittedly leans left, Hollywood…
— Steven Levitan
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The object of most prayers is to wangle an advance on good intentions.
— Robert Breault
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No one can bar the road to truth, and to advance its cause I am prepared to accept even death.
— Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
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We resent all criticism which denies us anything that lies in our line of advance.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
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General Reynolds immediately found himself engaged with a force which greatly outnumbered his own, and had scarcely made his dispositions for the action when he…
— Edward Everett
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Successful democratic politicians are insecure and intimidated men. They advance politically only as they placate, appease, bribe, seduce, bamboozle, or otherwise manage to manipulate the…
— Walter Lippmann
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People always fancy that we must become old to become wise; but, in truth, as years advance, it is hard to keep ourselves as wise…
— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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Give unto us this day the daily manna Without which, in this desert where we dwell, He must go backward who would most advance.
— Dante Alighieri
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I would say keep supporting space flight, keep telling the public and the politicians why it's important to advance science and explore the galaxy. I…
— Leroy Chiao
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What eludes logic is the most precious element in us, and one can draw nothing from a syllogism that the mind has not put there…
— Andre Gide
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If you ask me a question, don't tell me what the question is in advance, 'cause I'd rather not know.
— Geraldine Ferraro
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A new regulation for the publishing industry: "The advance for a book must be larger than the check for the lunch at which it was…
— Calvin Trillin
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I was out in the combat engineers. We would throw up bridges in advance of the infantry but mainly we would just throw up.
— Mel Brooks
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The problem is essentially that of communications to an army in action. After a rapid advance communications become disorganized, and there is a temporary halting…
— John Desmond Bernal
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May the days be aimless. Do not advance action according to a plan.
— Don DeLillo
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I don't plan massively in advance.
— Stella McCartney
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It's too simplistic to advance the notion of the autonomy of art as a reason for turning away from the public. You can have autonomy…
— Thom Mayne
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I think recordings have been a terrific advance because now, when you have a piece of music, particularly something that appears to the listener very…
— Leo Ornstein
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Men acquiesce in a thousand things, once righteously and boldly done, to which, if proposed to them in advance, they might find endless objections.
— Robert Dale Owen
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To include freedom in the very definition of democracy is to define a process not by its actual characteristics as a process but by its…
— Thomas Sowell
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The correct prayer is therefore never a prayer of supplication, but a prayer of gratitude. When you thank God in advance for that which you…
— Neale Donald Walsch
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