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Quotes About Advancing

Knowledge-it excites prejudices to call it science-is advancing as irresistibly, as majestically, as remorselessly as the ocean moves in upon the shore.
~ Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
The psychologist had said, "The border is advancing Ã¢â'¬Â¦ a little bit more every year." But I found that statement too limiting, too ignorant. There were thousands of "dead" spaces like the lot I had observed, thousands of transitional environments that no one saw, that had been rendered invisible because they were not "of use.
~ Jeff Vandermeer
In snow thou comest Thou shalt go with resuming ground The sweet derision of thx crow And Glee's advancing sound
~ Emily Dickinson
Finally, you must learn always to
~ Robert Greene
The credit of advancing science has always been due to individuals and never to the age.
~ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
The average man may be capable of benefiting by initiation, or he may not; it also depends upon his capacity; but each individual should have the opportunity of advancing to the highest development of which he is capable.
~ Dion Fortune
There was nothing to do about him. It was Easter Sunday and the Fascists were advancing toward the Ebro. It was a gray overcast day with a low ceiling so their planes were not up. That and the fact that cats know how to look after themselves was all the good luck that old man would ever have.
~ Ernest Hemingway
There Peter sat in the new sunlight, plaiting the straw for baskets, until he saw the thing he had been taught most to fear advancing silently along the lea of an outcrop of rock.
~ Angela Carter
To all my colleagues at the Department of Justice, let me say that it is a privilege to serve with you. I will do all I can to support your work in advancing the cause of justice.
~ William Barr
We are not retreating - we are advancing in another direction.
~ Douglas MacArthur
I fundamentally believed in the NASA mission of advancing our space frontier, all the while developing innovations and new technologies that would benefit all of humankind.
~ Jonny Kim
We are not retreating - we are advancing in another Direction
~ Douglas MacArthur
That great, mighty current of evolution which is advancing the life of everything in creation is simply invincible - no one can resist it.
~ Maharishi Mahesh Yogi
I feel like my place in this industry is still progressing.
~ Ed Harris
The McCarthy boys, at the proper moment, gave orders to fire upon the advancing enemy.
~ Buffalo Bill
There are powerful forces of destruction loose in the world, advancing inexorably toward her children and mine. The onslaught of progress, well-intentioned to improve human habitat, threatens the nest I've chosen for my children as surely as I threatened hers.
~ Robin Wall Kimmerer
The credit of advancing science has always been due to individuals and never to the age.
~ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Every proposal I'm making, every idea I'm advancing has a single, central purpose: to revive a failing economy and give working Americans the help and security they need.
~ Dick Gephardt
The history of political movements in the African diaspora is that the solution to the problem is never in the hands of people who are advancing the movement. I try and operate on my own terms.
~ Kerry James Marshall
Businesses have played an important role in advancing nondiscrimination protections across the county because they have recognized that inclusion is the right thing to do and fairness and equality are good for business.
~ London Breed
Heh? Eh? Our youth is dead. From the minute we discover it with eyes closed Advancing into mountain light. Ouch.
~ John Ashbery
They had applied their doubts to the very head that had introduced doubt as a tool for advancing knowledge. And in the end they gave the head a nod.
~ Russell Shorto
Advancing bourgeois society liquidates memory, time, recollection as irrational leftovers of the past.
~ Theodor Adorno
Do not imagine, comrades, that I am simply looking for a revolutionary form of justice. We have no concern about justice at this hour! We are at war, on the front where the enemy is advancing, and the fight is to the death."3
~ Arthur Herman