Quotes with advancement

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  • Victor Hugo A saint addicted to excessive self-abnegation is a dangerous associate; he may infect you with poverty, and a stiffening of those joints which are needed for advancement - in a word, with more renunciation than you care for - and so you flee the contagion.
    Victor Hugo
    French writer (1802 - 1885)
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  • Ben Stein Personal relationships are the fertile soil from which all advancement, all success, all achievement in real life grows.
    Ben Stein
    American professor, writer
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  • Thomas B. Macaulay Generalization is necessary to the advancement of knowledge; but particularly is indispensable to the creations of the imagination. In proportion as men know more and think more they look less at individuals and more at classes. They therefore make better theories and worse poems.
    Thomas B. Macaulay
    American essayist and historian (1800 - 1859)
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  • Bell Hooks Indeed much of the literature written about black folks in the post-civil rights era emphasized the need for jobs. Material advancement was deemed the pressing agenda. Mental health concerns were not a high priority. - From (2003) Rock My Soul
    Bell Hooks
    American author, professor, feminist (born G.J.Watkins) (1952 - 2021)
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  • Atal Bihari Vajpayee Poverty is multidimensional. It extends beyond money incomes to education, health care, political participation and advancement of one's own culture and social organisation.
    Atal Bihari Vajpayee
    Indian statesman (1924 - 2018)
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  • Niels Bohr Technology has advanced more in the last thirty years than in the previous two thousand. The exponential increase in advancement will only continue. Anthropological Commentary The opposite of a trivial truth is false; the opposite of a great truth is also true.
    Niels Bohr
    Danish scientist and physicist (1885 - 1962)
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  • Bayard Rustin The barometer for judging the character of people, in regard human rights, is now those who consider themselves gay, homosexual, lesbian. The judgment as to whether you can trust the future, the social advancement - depending on people - will be judged on where they come out on that question.
    Bayard Rustin
    American activist (1912 - 1987)
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  • C. Everett Koop The Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching has been in existence for most of this century.
    C. Everett Koop
    American doctor and pediatric surgeon (1916 - 2013)
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  • John Stuart Mill The despotism of custom is everywhere the standing hindrance to human advancement.
    John Stuart Mill
    English economist (1806 - 1873)
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  • John F. Kennedy The goal of education is the advancement of knowledge and the dissemination of truth.
    John F. Kennedy
    American politician (1917 - 1963)
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  • Sir Henry Taylor The hope, and not the fact, of advancement, is the spur to industry.
    Sir Henry Taylor
    English dramatist and poet (1800 - 1886)
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  • H.G. Wells The path of social advancement is, and must be, strewn with broken friendships.
    H.G. Wells
    British-born American author (1866 - 1946)
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  • John F. Kennedy The purpose of education is dedicated to the advancement of knowledge and the dissemination of truth.
    Source: Harvard, 14-06-1956
    John F. Kennedy
    American politician (1917 - 1963)
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  • Jean de la Bruyère The slave has but one master, the ambitious man has as many as there are persons whose aid may contribute to the advancement of his fortunes.
    Jean de la Bruyère
    French writer (1645 - 1696)
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  • Thomas Reid There is no greater impediment to the advancement of knowledge than the ambiguity of words.
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  • Henry L. Doherty Those who do the most for the world's advancement are the ones who demand the least.
    Henry L. Doherty
    Irish-American financier and oilman
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  • Peter F. Drucker Today knowledge has power. It controls access to opportunity and advancement.
    Peter F. Drucker
    American management consultant and writer (1909 - 2005)
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