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  • A woman is handicapped by her sex, and handicaps society, either by slavishly copying the pattern of man's advance in the professions, or by refusing to compete with man at all.
  • To raise new questions, new possibilities, to regard old problems from a new angle, requires creative imagination and marks real advance in science.
  • My jobs on campaigns were pretty low on the totem pole - I was an advance man.
  • The most original of authors are not so because they advance what is new, but more because they know how to say something, as if it had never been said before.
  • The more thou dost advance, the more thy feet pitfalls will meet. The Path that leadeth on is lighted by one fire - the light of daring burning in the heart. The more one dares, the more he shall obtain. The more he fears, the more that light shall pale
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  • Yves Saint-Laurent A good model can advance fashion by ten years.
    Yves Saint-Laurent
    French fashion designer (1936 - 2008)
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  • A. J. P. Taylor Conformity may give you a quiet life; it may even bring you to a University Chair. But all change in history, all advance, comes from the nonconformists. If there had been no trouble-makers, no Dissenters, we should still be living in caves.
    A. J. P. Taylor
    British historian (1906 - 1990)
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  • Thomas Henry Huxley Every great advance in natural knowledge has involved the absolute rejection of authority.
    Thomas Henry Huxley
    English biologist (1825 - 1895)
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  • Thomas Traherne I will not by the noise of bloody wars and the dethroning of kings advance you to glory: but by the gentle ways of peace and love.
    Thomas Traherne
    British Clergyman, Poet, Mystic (1636 - 1674)
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  • Arthur Schopenhauer A man's delight in looking forward to and hoping for some particular satisfaction is a part of the pleasure flowing out of it, enjoyed in advance. But this is afterward deducted, for the more we look forward to anything the less we enjoy it when it comes.
    Arthur Schopenhauer
    German philosopher (1788 - 1860)
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  • Mary McCarthy A society person who is enthusiastic about modern painting or Truman Capote is already half a traitor to his class. It is middle-class people who, quite mistakenly, imagine that a lively pursuit of the latest in reading and painting will advance their status in the world.
    Mary McCarthy
    American author (1912 - 1989)
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  • Betty Friedan A woman is handicapped by her sex, and handicaps society, either by slavishly copying the pattern of man's advance in the professions, or by refusing to compete with man at all.
    Betty Friedan
    American feministisch writer (1921 - 2006)
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  • Edward Gibbon All that is human must retrograde if it does not advance.
    Edward Gibbon
    British historian (1737 - 1794)
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  • Bobby Ray Inman As best I can tell there was no advance warning of the attack on the World Trade Center in 1993, which was the first significant foreign terrorist activity in the U.S. No tip-offs that it was coming.
    Bobby Ray Inman
     
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  • James A. Froude As we advance in life we learn the limits of our abilities.
    James A. Froude
    British Historian (1818 - 1894)
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  • Bill Hybels Before bringing a request to the Lord, it's a good idea to ask: If God granted this request, would it bring glory to him? Would it advance his kingdom? Would it help people? Would it help me to grow spiritually?
    Too Busy Not to Pray
    Bill Hybels
    American church figure and author (1951 - )
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  • Maxwell Maltz Close scrutiny will show that most "crisis situations" are opportunities to either advance, or stay where you are.
    Maxwell Maltz
    American surgeon and author (1889 - 1975)
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  • Virgil Do not yield to misfortunes, but advance more boldly to meet them, as your fortune permits you.
    Virgil
    Roman poet (70 - 19)
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  • William Ellery Channing Error is discipline through which we advance.
    William Ellery Channing
    American Unitarian minister (1780 - 1842)
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  • John Dewey Every great advance in science has issued from a new audacity of imagination.
    John Dewey
    American philosopher (1859 - 1952)
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  • Juvenal Fortune can, for her pleasure, fools advance,
    And toss them on the wheels of Chance.
    Juvenal
    Roman poet
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  • Ban Ki-moon From the beginning of my time as Secretary-General, I have sought to advance a practical, action-oriented vision of the U.N. as the voice of the voiceless and the defender of the defenceless.
    Ban Ki-moon
    South Korean politician and diplomat (1944 - )
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  • Henry Louis Mencken Government is a broker in pillage, and every election is a sort of advance auction sale of stolen goods.
    A Carnival of Buncombe
    Henry Louis Mencken
    American journalist and critic (1880 - 1956)
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  • Samuel Johnson He that embarks on the voyage of life will always wish to advance rather by the impulse of the wind than the strokes of the oar; and many fold in their passage; while they lie waiting for the gale.''
    Samuel Johnson
    English writer (1709 - 1784)
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  • Thomas Carlyle He who could foresee affairs three days in advance would be rich for thousands of years.
    Thomas Carlyle
    Scottish writer and historicus (1795 - 1881)
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