"The perpetual obstacle to human advancement is custom." — John Stuart Mill

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• Technology has advanced more in the last thirty years than in the previous two thousand. The exponential increase in advancement… — Niels Bohr
• Advances in technology will continue to reach far into every sector of our economy. Future job and economic growth in… — Christopher Bond
• The slave has but one master, the ambitious man has as many as there are persons whose aid may contribute… — Jean de la Bruyere
• No body of knowledge needs an organizational policy. Organizational policy can only impede the advancement of knowledge. There is a… — William S. Burroughs
• Being involved in the well-being and advancement of one's own community is a most natural thing to do. — Clarence Clemons
• The advancement of agriculture, commerce and manufactures, by all proper means, will not, I trust, need recommendation. But I cannot… — George Washington
• The Catholics have a Pope. Protestants laugh at them, and yet the Pope is capable of intellectual advancement. In addition… — Robert Green Ingersoll
• An absence of antecedents and of relatives is sometimes an aid rather than an impediment to social advancement . .… — Arthur Conan Doyle
• Achieving vulnerability-based trust (where team members have overcome their need for invulnerability) is difficult because in the course of career… — Patrick Lencioni
• A mass movement attracts and holds a following not because it can satisfy the desire for self-advancement, but because it… — Eric Hoffer
• I remember that after that teaching given to me as a young man, as a boy, almost, by the President… — Heber J. Grant
• Do not hold the delusion that your advancement is accomplished by crushing others. — Marcus Tullius Cicero

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