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There is no greater impediment to the advancement of knowledge than the ambiguity of words.
Thomas Reid
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You will not see anyone who is truly striving after his spiritual advancement who is not given to spiritual reading.
Athanasius of Alexandria
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Coercive power is the curse of the universe, coactive power, the enrichment and advancement of every human soul.
Mary Parker Follett
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There is no knowledge and science like pondering and thought; and there is no prosperity and advancement like knowledge and science.
Ali ibn Abi Talib
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It is important that spiritual advancement must keep pace with material advancement.
Haile Selassie
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If we continue to develop our technology without wisdom or prudence, our servant may prove to be our executioner.
Omar N. Bradley
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Scientific advancement should aim to affirm and to improve human life.
Nathan Deal
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If anyone says that it is possible that at some time, given the advancement of knowledge, a sense may be assigned to the dogmas propounded by the Church which is different from that which the Church has understood and understands: let him be anathema.
Pope Pius IX
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During the civilisation and development process of more than 5,000 years, the Chinese nation has made an indelible contribution to the civilisation and advancement of mankind.
Xi Jinping
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As is natural with contiguous states having like institutions and like aims of advancement and development, the friendship of the United States and Mexico has been constantly maintained.
Chester A. Arthur
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The powers contained in a constitution...ought to be construed liberally in advancement of the public good.
Alexander Hamilton
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The surest way to lose democracy is to take it for granted. Every citizen must contribute to its advancement in some way. No nation or culture can long survive the absence of transcendent values and absolutes.
Carl F. H. Henry
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It is the great beauty of our science, chemistry, that advancement in it, whether in a degree great or small, instead of exhausting the subjects of research, opens the doors to further and more abundant knowledge, overflowing with beauty and utility.
Michael Faraday
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Now is the time to take up the cause of the advancement of human rights for all and the moment is yours to grasp.
Roméo Dallaire
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Humility must accompany all our actions, must be with us everywhere; for as soon as we glory in our good works they are of no further value to our advancement in virtue.
Saint Augustine
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He who is the cause of another's advancement is thereby the cause of his own ruin.
Niccolo Machiavelli
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I was taught the method for advancement is not quick or simple.
Marie Curie
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My unlimited desire to create stuff surpasses the advancement in hardware power.
Hideo Kojima
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The advancement of all sciences, especially where there has been such a radical change, have been attended with persecution.
Daniel D. Palmer
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It is a remarkable honor to receive a Nobel Prize, because it not only recognizes discoveries, but also their usefulness to the advancement of fundamental science.
Peter Agre
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As women demanded access to power, the power structure used the beauty myth materially to undermine women's advancement.
Naomi Wolf
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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
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Nothing tends so much to the advancement of knowledge as the application of a new instrument.
Humphry Davy
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The crisis is not in the outward technological advancement, but rather in the way we think, and the way we live, and the way we feel. I think that is where a revolution must take place.
Jiddu Krishnamurti
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There have to be people who are vocal about the advancement of knowledge over faith.
Seth MacFarlane
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The despotism of custom is everywhere the standing hindrance to human advancement.
John Stuart Mill
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Genetic engineering is a result of science advancement, so I don't think that in itself is bad.
Hideo Kojima
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Do not hold the delusion that your advancement is accomplished by crushing others.
Marcus Tullius Cicero
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Spiritual advancement is measured by faithful obedience.
Watchman Nee
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All experiences of life seems to prove that the impediments thrown in the way of the human advancement may for the most part be overcome by steady good conduct, honest zeal, activity, perseverance and above all, by a determined resolution to surmount.
Samuel Smiles
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The power to hurt ... has evolved in a direct relationship to technological advancement.
Roger Zelazny
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Temporary success can be achieved in spite of lack of other fundamental qualities, but no advancements can be maintained without hard work.
William Feather
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The pupil is ... 'schooled' to confuse teaching with learning, grade advancement with education, a diploma with competence, and fluency with the ability to say something new.
Ivan Illich
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Educators must resist the quest for certainty. If there were certainty there would be no scientific advancement. So it is with morals and patriotism.
John Goodlad
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In the most dysfunctional organizations, signaling that work is being done becomes a better strategy for career advancement than actually doing work (if this describes your company, you should quit now).
Peter Thiel
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With globalization and with a lot of power evaporating from the nation-states, the late-19th century established hierarchies of importance, or 'pecking orders' of cultures, presenting assimilation as an advancement or promotion, dissolved.
Zygmunt Bauman
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Nothing is more precious than peace. Peace is the most basic starting point for the advancement of humankind.
Daisaku Ikeda
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We are in the midst of a violent backlash againist feminism that uses images of female beauty as political weapons against women's advancement.
Naomi Wolf
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One general law, leading to the advancement of all organic beings, namely, multiply, vary, let the strongest live and the weakest die.
Charles Darwin
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Today, we are pleased to announce the biggest advancement in iPhone.
Tim Cook
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They either attach themselves to God's will, which results in their continuous progress, improvement and advancement, or they oppose God's will, are justly subjected to what He permits, and sink wretchedly from bad to worse.
Gregory Palamas
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Today with technological advancement, with the Internet, with planes, with the rate at which we travel - even if you wanted, you cannot hide from the rest of the world. And whether you like it or not, you are part of this global marketplace, and so you might as well understand it, you might as well embrace it, because even if you hide, it will find you.
Wangari Maathai
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the higher the step of advancement, the heavier is the fall.
Heloise
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Could an android listen to the whining, requests for advancement, and entreaties for guidance and affection that pour from subordinates? Sure it could. Frankly, all that would be easier on the robot than it is on me.
Stanley Bing
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In any country, corruption tends to increase when more respectable means of social advancement break down.
Katherine Boo
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Studios and networks who ignore either shift - whether the increasing sophistication of storytelling, or the constantly shifting sands of technological advancement - will be left behind.
Kevin Spacey
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Being involved in the well-being and advancement of one's own community is a most natural thing to do.
Clarence Clemons
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The object of all the former voyages to the South Seas undertaken by the command of his present majesty, has been the advancement of science and the increase of knowledge.
William Bligh
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Those who do the most for the world's advancement are the ones who demand the least.
Henry Latham Doherty
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Generalization is necessary to the advancement of knowledge; but particularity is indispensable to the creations of the imagination.
Thomas B. Macaulay