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• The separation of science and non-science is not only artificial but also detrimental to the advancement of knowledge. If we want to understand nature, if we want to master our physical surroundings, then we must use all ideas, all methods, and not just a small selection of them.

  Paul Feyerabend

  Knowledge, Science, Ideas

  "Against Method". Book by Paul Feyerabend, 1975.

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• People complain that our generation has no philosophers. They are wrong. They now sit in another faculty. Their names are Max Planck and Albert Einstein. Upon appointment as the first president of the Kaiser Wilhelm Society, Berlin, formed for the advancement of science.

  Adolf von Harnack

  Our Generation, Names, People

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• Most worshippers of God are intent on the advancement of their own destiny, not on His worship. In India, no one has ever claimed to be a prophet. The reason is that claims to divinity are customary.

  Akbar

  Destiny, Hypocrisy, India

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• For our personal advancement in virtue and truth one quality is sufficient, namely, love; to advance humanity there must be two, love and intelligence; to accomplish the Great Work there must be three love, intelligence, and activity. And yet love is ever the root and the source.

  Louis Claude de Saint-Martin

  Love, Inspirational, Truth

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• It is important that spiritual advancement must keep pace with material advancement.

  Haile Selassie

  Spiritual, Important, Pace

  The Voice of Ethiopia, April 5, 1948.

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• All who are genuinely committed to the advancement of women can and must offer a woman or a girl who is pregnant, frightened and alone a better alternative than the destruction of her own unborn child.

  Mary Ann Glendon

  Girl, Children, Pro Life

  "Hillary Clinton Tells Activists It's Up to Them / `You will be the key players,' she says to women at forum" by Pamela Burdman, www.sfgate.com. September 6, 1995.

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• Im gonna try to pay for CLERKS III myself. As much as I love the crowd-funding model, thats an advancement in indie film that belongs to the next generation of artists. I started on my own dime, and if Im allowed, I should finish on my own dime.

  Kevin Smith

  Artist, Trying, Clerks

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• It is important that spiritual advancement must keep pace with material advancement. When this comes to be realized man's journey toward higher and more lasting values will show more marked progress while the evil in him recedes into the background. Knowing that material and spiritual progress are essential to man, we must ceaselessly work for the equal attainment of both. Only then shall we be able to acquire that absolute inner calm so necessary to our well-being.

  Haile Selassie

  Spiritual, Journey, Men

  The Voice of Ethiopia, April 5, 1948.

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• Each soul in entering the material experience does so for those purposes of advancement towards that awareness of being fully conscious of the oneness with the Creative Forces.

  Edgar Cayce

  Spiritual, Oneness, Creative

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• As you experience success in applying kaizen to clear goals like weight loss or career advancement, remember to hold onto its essence: an optimistic belief in our potential for continuous improvement.

  Robert D. Maurer

  Optimistic, Loss, Clear Goals

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• Without an acquaintance with chemistry, the statesman must remain a stranger to the true vital interests of the state, to the means of its organic development and improvement; ... The highest economic or material interests of a country, the increased and more profitable production of food for man and animals, ... are most closely linked with the advancement and diffusion of the natural sciences, especially of chemistry.

  Justus von Liebig

  Country, Knowledge, Mean

  Justus von Liebig (1859). “Familiar Letters on Chemistry, in its relation to Physiology, Dietetics, Agriculture, Commerce and Political Economy: Edited by John Blyth”, p.21

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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

  Soul, Curse, Enrichment

  Mary Parker Follett, Pauline Graham (1996). “Mary Parker Follett--prophet of management: a celebration of writings from the 1920s”, Harvard Business Press

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• Sadat provides an important, insistent voice for continued advancement in peace and social justice.

  Jehan Sadat

  Voice, Justice, Important

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• Too early religious advancement of the Hindus and that superfineness in everything which made them cling to higher alternatives, have reduced them to what they are. The Hindus have to learn a little bit of materialism from the West and teach them a little bit of spirituality.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Religious, Alternatives, Littles

  Swami Vivekananda (2015). “The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda”, p.2608, Manonmani Publishers

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• The more one makes spiritual advancement, one feels humble and as one's devotion is superficial that much he feels that he is a great devotee.

  Radhanath Swami

  Spiritual, Humility, Humble

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• I was taught the method for advancement is not quick or simple.

  Marie Curie

  Simple, Taught, Method

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• Nothing tends so much to the advancement of knowledge as the application of a new instrument. The native intellectual powers of men in different times are not so much the causes of the different success of their labours, as the peculiar nature of the means and artificial resources in their possession.

  Humphry Davy

  Mean, Men, Intellectual

  Sir Humphry Davy (1812). “Elements of Chemical Philosophy”, p.54

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• Adversity is not simply a tool. It is God's most effective tool for the advancement of our spiritual lives. The circumstances and events that we see as setbacks are oftentimes the very things that launch us into periods of intense spiritual growth. Once we begin to understand this, and accept it as a spiritual fact of life, adversity becomes easier to bear.

  Charles Stanley

  Spiritual, Disappointment, Adversity

  Charles Stanley (1991). “How to Handle Adversity”, p.59, Thomas Nelson Inc

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• A fast food job, for most people, should be an entry level position. If you see no path for advancement beyond that, it's time to take a real fast look at your human capital and learn a skill that will make you more money.

  William J. Bernstein

  Jobs, Real, Skills

  Source: www.npr.org

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• Assess the work of whatever others do to you or say about you, and cultivate fortitude and the understanding to appreciate their behaviour and pardon their faults. This capacity is as invaluable as truth, righteousness, wisdom, non-violence, renunciation, delight and compassion. It is all that one need possess for spiritual advancement.

  Sathya Sai Baba

  Spiritual, Compassion, Appreciate

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• Our expectations for a technology rise with its advancement.

  Henry Petroski

  Technology, Expectations

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• All my money comes from show money. You might get your deals, your advancements to do your album, but it wasn't in great abundance. Everybody's money in the '90s came from doing shows. That's a whole lot of show money, and that's it.

  Redman

  Albums, Might, Abundance

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• Thus, Protestantism will always stand up for the advancement of all Germans as such, as long as matters of inner purity or national deepening as well as German freedom are involved, since all these things have a firm foundation in its own being; but it combats with the greatest hostility any attempt to rescue the nation from the embrace of its most mortal enemy, since its attitude toward the Jews just happens to be more or less dogmatically established.

  Adolf Hitler

  Attitude, Long, Enemy

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• I did not read from a sense of superiority, or advancement, or even learning. I read because I loved it more than any other activity on earth.

  Anna Quindlen

  Earth, Activity, Superiority

  Anna Quindlen (2010). “How Reading Changed My Life”, p.9, Ballantine Books

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• Jail is no place for a young fellow. There's no advancement.

  Groucho Marx

  Inspiration, Jail, Young

  "Fictional character: Hammer". "The Cocoanuts", www.imdb.com. 1929.

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