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As we advance in life it becomes more and more difficult, but in fighting the difficulties the inmost strength of the heart is developed.
, painter
It's important to see how we can advance in healing wounds.
, politician
Civilization is merely an advance in taste: accepting, all the time, nicer things, and rejecting nasty ones.
, writer
The advancement and diffusion of knowledge is the only guardian of true liberty.
, president
No greater injury can be done to any youth than to let him feel that because he belongs to this or that race he will be advanced in life regardless of his own merits or efforts.
, educator
All my children have spoken for themselves since they first learned to speak, and not always with my advance approval, and I expect that to continue in the future.
, president
Thus, in a sense, mathematics has been most advanced by those who distinguished themselves by intuition rather than by rigorous proofs.
, mathematician
If I planned everything out in advance, I'd expire of boredom.
, writer
As civilization advances, poetry almost necessarily declines.
, historian
In my work, I have never had any use for anything that I have known in advance.
, sculptor
The greatest advances of civilization, whether in architecture or painting, in science and literature, in industry or agriculture, have never come from centralized government.
, economist
Genius is the very eye of intellect and the wing of thought; it is always in advance of its time, and is the pioneer for the generation which it precedes.
, novelist
The anvil of justice is planted firm, and fate who makes the sword does the forging in advance.
, poet
I don't think we should tell them what we're going to do in advance. Let them think. Worry. Wonder. Uncertainty is the most chilling thing of all.
, soldier
In the Soviet army it takes more courage to retreat than advance.
, leader
The very best impromptu speeches are the ones written well in advance.
, actress
If you wish in this world to advance your merits you're bound to enhance; You must stir it and stump it, and blow your own trumpet, Or, trust me, you haven't a chance.
, composer
You feel a sense of urgency, especially at my advanced age, when you're staring into the grave.
, author
In this eventful period the colony of New South Wales is already far advanced.
, explorer
Follow me if I advance! Kill me if I retreat! Revenge me if I die!
, statesman
Progress, of the best kind, is comparatively slow. Great results cannot be achieved at once; and we must be satisfied to advance in life as we walk, step by step.
, author
America was indebted to immigration for her settlement and prosperity. That part of America which had encouraged them most had advanced most rapidly in population, agriculture and the arts.
, president
The most important thing we can do is inspire young minds and to advance the kind of science, math and technology education that will help youngsters take us to the next phase of space travel.
, astronaut
The position of modern science, as far as an ignorant man of letters can understand it, seems not a step in advance of that held by Huxley and Romanes in the last century.
, philosopher
Evolution seems to close the heart to some of the plainest spiritual truths while it opens the mind to the wildest guesses advanced in the name of science.
, lawyer
In externals we advance with lightening express speed, in modes of thought and sympathy we lumber on in stage-coach fashion.
, activist
We need to stop spending money on those weapons systems that do not advance national security.
,
With guests who are 'in the middle of the fight,' we're able to hear their point-of-view on the topics, as well as advance our own feelings.
, writer
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.
, statesman
I cannot help fearing that men may reach a point where they look on every new theory as a danger, every innovation as a toilsome trouble, every social advance as a first step toward revolution, and that they may absolutely refuse to move at all.
, historian
The substantial uncertainty about the path of asset price movements going forward necessarily reduces the case for altering policy in advance of the move.
, public servant
The President and the Democrats on Congress have exploited the financial crisis to advance their socialist big government tax, spend and borrow agenda.
, businessman
There's a lot more to see when you're playing and because of the advances in technology it makes room for all kinds of new characters.
, actress
I wrote my thesis on the benefits of war and very near got thrown out of college. But I can show you where the greatest advancement of mankind comes under stress and strain, not comfort.
, politician
The first stage in a technology's advance is that it'll fall below a critical price. After it falls below a critical price, it will tend, if it's successful, to rise above a critical mass, a penetration.
, businessman
It's rather amusing at my advanced age to become a sex symbol.
, actor
They've just gone over the line in my opinion, and again, there's a proper time for a pat down, there's a proper time for an advanced technology body search, but it has to be done with some thought.
, politician
History is replete with examples of moments in time when we talk about deficit reduction and try to advance on it around the world, that is, where it leads to job losses, not job creation.
, author
We know that defence work results in more than great defence hardware - it can drive innovation and advances in all areas of our life.
, politician
If you ask an economist what's driven economic growth, it's been major advances in things that mattered - the mechanization of farming, mass manufacturing, things like that. The problem is, our society is not organized around doing that.
, businessman
When the Americans advance, we harass and retreat, fire from new positions and then retreat again. If the attacking force is too big, we call for support.
, clergyman
I don't plan massively in advance.
, designer
The more humanity advances, the more it is degraded.
, novelist
May the days be aimless. Do not advance action according to a plan.
, novelist
You can't say civilization don't advance... in every war they kill you in a new way.
, actor
Let us not bankrupt our todays by paying interest on the regrets of yesterday and by borrowing in advance the troubles of tomorrow.
, leader
Could I have but a line a century hence crediting a contribution to the advance of peace, I would yield every honor which has been accorded by war.
, general
My main mistake was to have made an ancient people advance by forced marches toward independence, health, culture, affluence, comfort.
, royalty
He who could foresee affairs three days in advance would be rich for thousands of years.
, philosopher
Use power to help people. For we are given power not to advance our own purposes nor to make a great show in the world, nor a name. There is but one just use of power and it is to serve people.
, president
Advancement only comes with habitually doing more than you are asked.
,
To raise new questions, new possibilities, to regard old problems from a new angle, requires creative imagination and marks real advance in science.
, physicist
Victory must be assured in advance. And the American public must be all for it from the outset.
,
It is reasonable to have perfection in our eye that we may always advance toward it, though we know it can never be reached.
, author
While all other sciences have advanced, that of government is at a standstill - little better understood, little better practiced now than three or four thousand years ago.
, president
Anyone who considers using a weapon of mass destruction against the United States or its allies must first consider the consequences... We would not specify in advance what our response would be, but it would be both overwhelming and devastating.
, politician
Leisure and curiosity might soon make great advances in useful knowledge, were they not diverted by minute emulation and laborious trifles.
, author
If what I do prove well, it won't advance. They'll say it's stolen, or else it was by chance.
, poet
I have sacrificed everything in my life that I consider precious to advance the political career of my husband.
, first lady
Idealists foolish enough to throw caution to the winds have advanced mankind and have enriched the world.
, activist
It is not possible for civilization to flow backwards while there is youth in the world. Youth may be headstrong, but it will advance it allotted length.
, author
Close scrutiny will show that most "crisis situations" are opportunities to either advance, or stay where you are.
, scientist
The wisest use of American strength is to advance freedom.
, president
Every election is a sort of advance auction sale of stolen goods.
, writer
They told me my services were no longer desired because they wanted to put in a youth program as an advance way of keeping the club going. I'll never make the mistake of being seventy again.
, athlete
The plan was criticized by some retired military officers embedded in TV studios. But with every advance by our coalition forces, the wisdom of that plan becomes more apparent.
, vice president
There is a spirit and a need and a man at the beginning of every great human advance. Every one of these must be right for that particular moment of history, or nothing happens.
, activist
The liberation of Iraq is a crucial advance in the campaign against terror.
, politician
In spite of advances in technology and changes in the economy, state government still operates on an obsolete 1970s model. We have a typewriter government in an Internet age.
, politician
Advances in technology will continue to reach far into every sector of our economy. Future job and economic growth in industry, defense, transportation, agriculture, health care, and life sciences is directly related to scientific advancement.
, politician
Diplomacy is not an end in itself if it does not advance U.S. interests.
, statesman
Economic advance is not the same thing as human progress.
, economist
I have never wavered from my intention to advance the cause of diversity in new and more effective ways.
, politician
We recognized in 1996 that, with progress in the field of genetics accelerating at a breathtaking pace, we need to ensure that advances in treatment and prevention of disease do not constitute a new basis for discrimination.
, politician
I can honestly, and proudly, say that I never was on the casting couch. Oh, of course there have been advances from certain men in the movie industry, but nothing overwhelming.
, celebrity
I don't believe medical discoveries are doing much to advance human life. As fast as we create ways to extend it we are inventing ways to shorten it.
, scientist
Our clear goal must be the advancement of the white race and separation of the white and black races. This goal must include freeing of the American media and government from subservient Jewish interests.
, celebrity
In fact what I would like to see is thousands of computer scientists let loose to do whatever they want. That's what really advances the field.
, scientist
I thank you in advance for the great round of applause I'm about to get.
, musician
My photographs are not planned or composed in advance, and I do not anticipate that the onlooker will share my viewpoint. However, I feel that if my photograph leaves an image on his mind, something has been accomplished.
, photographer
If there is technological advance without social advance, there is, almost automatically, an increase in human misery.
, writer
Yesterday I was a dog. Today I'm a dog. Tomorrow I'll probably still be a dog. Sigh! There's so little hope for advancement.
, cartoonist
There has been a huge advance in technology, which has improved the safety of the cars incredibly, but there are still some heavy crash impacts and in certain circumstances there is still the chance of fire today.
, athlete
As a consequence of the victories we have registered during our first ten years of freedom, we have laid a firm foundation for the new advances we must and will make during the next decade.
, statesman
Of course, Third World leaders love you. By ascribing third world ills to First World sins, you absolve them of blame for their countries' failure to advance.
, politician
I have enjoyed the personal use of money; but I have gotten the greatest satisfaction from using it to advance my beliefs in human relations, human values.
, politician
The existence of an area of free land, its continuous recession, and the advance of American settlement, explain American development.
, historian
The theist and the scientist are rival interpreters of nature, the one retreats as the other advances.
, writer
The advancement of all sciences, especially where there has been such a radical change, have been attended with persecution.
, celebrity
After this urgent protest against entering into battle at Gettysburg according to instructions - which protest is the first and only one I ever made during my entire military career - I ordered my line to advance and make the assault.
, soldier
Men are much more agressive with their advances.
, musician
The mind cannot foresee its own advance.
, economist
The ideas which now pass for brilliant innovations and advances are in fact mere revivals of ancient errors, and a further proof of the dictum that those who are ignorant of the past are condemned to repeat it.
, philosopher
Infectious diseases introduced with Europeans, like smallpox and measles, spread from one Indian tribe to another, far in advance of Europeans themselves, and killed an estimated 95% of the New World's Indian population.
, author
The southward advance of native African farmers with Central African crops halted in Natal, beyond which Central African crops couldn't grow - with enormous consequences for the recent history of South Africa.
, author
Funeral by funeral, theory advances.
, economist
We slow the progress of science today for all sorts of ethical reasons. Biomedicine could advance much faster if we abolished our rules on human experimentation in clinical trials, as Nazi researchers did.
, writer
Found everybody in a terrible state of excitement on account of the enemy's advance upon this place.
, soldier
Synergy and serendipity often play a big part in medical and scientific advances.
, politician
Advances in science and medical research and public health policies have meant that life expectancy for Australians is one of the highest in the world.
, politician
Is a decision made in advance really any kind of choice.
, poet
Socialist democracy is not, a luxury and its need is not limited to the most advanced industrial countries.
, author
They urged me to take up winter quarters at the forks of the Platt, stating that if I attempted to advance further until spring, I would endanger the lives of my whole party.
, businessman
Having now reached a point where danger might be reasonably apprehended from strolling war parties of Indians, spies were kept in advance and strict diligence observed in the duty of sentinels.
, businessman
The next release of mainline is going to have a lot of the advanced features people want, by the way.
, scientist
In writing a series of stories about the same characters, plan the whole series in advance in some detail, to avoid contradictions and inconsistencies.
, author
To the extent that these advanced weapons or their components are treated as articles of commerce, perhaps for peaceful uses as in the Plowshare program, their cost would be well within the resources available to many large private organizations.
, scientist
The rare person is still interested in new advances when they are adults. There is possibly a correlation with intelligence. In any case, you have to be fairly bright to keep learning and changing attitudes as you get older.
, scientist
The advance guard in the campaign for peace that America wages today must be the State Department.
, public servant
It is characteristic of science that the full explanations are often seized in their essence by the percipient scientist long in advance of any possible proof.
, scientist
Marxists have some way of analyzing the development of affairs which enables them to judge far in advance of scientific thinkers what the trend of social and economic development is to be.
, scientist
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 until they are again in working order.
, scientist
At times we expected the allies unquestioningly to follow our leads; sometimes we failed to consult them in advance before reversing policies; at other times we ignored their requests.
, diplomat
George Lucas wanted this moving camera for all of the photography in Star Wars. He was willing to take a risk with the concepts that I advanced with regard to ways for doing that.
, scientist
While all of these are important and significant events, it is the United States' foreign policy that furthers the advancement of freedoms and rights for women that is the most striking for me.
, politician
While that amendment failed, human cloning continues to advance and the breakthrough in this unethical and morally questionable science is around the corner.
, politician
The two most important things that can be done to promote democracy in the world is first, to bring moral clarity back to world affairs and second, to link international policies to the advance of democracy around the globe.
, writer
When we are unwilling to draw clear moral lines between free societies and fear societies, when we are unwilling to call the former good and the latter evil, we will not be able to advance the cause of peace because peace cannot be disconnected from freedom.
, writer
You should pull him back besides in all the lines before the quarter, just as you make the others advance.
, public servant
After taking my B.A. degree in 1939 I remained at the University for a further year to take an advanced course in Biochemistry, and surprised myself and my teachers by obtaining a first class examination result.
, scientist
So what I was essentially doing was, I compromised the confidentiality of their proprietary software to advance my agenda of becoming the best at breaking through the lock.
, businessman
But had they not paid that advance we would have lost much more, we would have started to go and look for the product all over again, the refinery would have stopped working.
, politician
Naming a transition team varies with the intentions of the candidate; some candidates have been careful to name a transition team as much as a year in advance.
, public servant
Every year the progress of advanced capitalist society makes our population consist of more and more isolates. This is because of the infrastructure of the economy, especially electronic communications.
, scientist
The great weight of the ship may indeed prevent her from acquiring her greatest velocity; but when she has attained it, she will advance by her own intrinsic motion, without gaining any new degree of velocity, or lessening what she has acquired.
, poet
Poverty is multidimensional. It extends beyond money incomes to education, health care, political participation and advancement of one's own culture and social organisation.
, statesman
China has legally purchased high performance computers, advanced machine tools, and semiconductor-manufacturing equipment from several American companies.
, politician
I get to the theatre in plenty of time; I prepare my shoes in advance; I eat and drink the right things at the right time. The rest you have to leave to luck!
, dancer
I didn't want the headache of having a publisher reviewing everything I wrote in advance.
, writer
Most of all, we should remember all of us are capable of individually helping advance the spirit of equality for all.
, politician
Because the better an organization is at fulfilling its purpose, the more it attracts people who see the organization as an opportunity to advance themselves.
, author
We can provide beta software to our developers in advance of the general public. We can easily link up with external partners, customers, and suppliers.
, businessman
I am a firm believer in education and have worked very hard to tell young Latinos that they must go to college and that, if possible, they should pursue an advanced degree. I am convinced that education is the great equalizer.
, actor
It will, of course, be understood that directly or indirectly, soon or late, every advance in the sciences of human nature will contribute to our success in controlling human nature and changing it to the advantage of the common weal.
, psychologist
Let us tell our legislators in advance, that this is a right, restraints on which, we will not, cannot bear; and that every attempt to restrain it is a palpable wrong on God and man.
, politician
Space exploration is important research to our economic and national defense, and America's space program is a symbol of our success as a scientifically and technologically advanced nation.
, politician
You have to remember that coaching wasn't sophisticated back then - you didn't have the camps, clinics and all the technical advances that are available today - so from that standpoint, playing with a cast on my arm was a fortunate event in my life.
, athlete
Yes, I get a report from BMI about the frequency of performances, and it is very surprising. They played one of my most advanced pieces, and one of my most unusual ones on the radio.
, composer
Well I tried to, but I could never write anything that I liked or was worthwhile. I threw it all out and realized that I had to make a serious study- that my tastes were far more advanced than my abilities.
, composer
If you ask me a question, don't tell me what the question is in advance, 'cause I'd rather not know.
, politician
I was fifteen years old, and I hardly knew how to play a simple Bach prelude on the piano when I began to compose music, and at the most advanced level. I had never studied such things as harmony.
,
By 3000 B.C. the art of Egypt was so ripe and so far advanced that it is surprising to find any student of early culture proposing that the crude contemporary art of the early Babylonians is the product of a civilization earlier than that of the Nile.
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Advances have fallen, generally, for everything except the biggest potential bestsellers. Given all the changes, both economic and technological, SF hasn't done too badly.
, author
It is the lone worker who makes the first advance in a subject; the details may be worked out by a team, but the prime idea is due to enterprise, thought, and perception of an individual.
, scientist
I wanted to do a movie about being really good at something, yet being socially awkward and not as advanced in your personal life as you are in your creative life.
, actress
We always had chocolates and my mother was careful to make sure they were unwrapped in advance so the paper wouldn't rustle in the middle of a performance.
, actress
I certainly feel my career was a great career because it inspired so many many people, literally hundreds of people to follow a new kind of life and to realize that they could make out and advance their own professional and private and social lives.
, dancer
Technological advances could allow us to see more clearly into our own lives.
, editor
The great advance of personal computers was not the computing power per se but the fact that it brought it right to your face, that you had control over it, that were confronted with it and could steer it.
, editor
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 complicated, there's really a push to the world to try to figure out what it was that he was hearing.
, composer
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