Advancing Quotes - Page 2

• The General who in advancing does not seek personal fame, and in withdrawing is not concerned with avoiding punishment, but whose only purpose is to protect the people and promote the best interests of his sovereign, is the precious jewel of the state.

  Sun Tzu

  Art, War, Punishment

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• The careful student of history will discover that Christianity has been of very little value in advancing civilization, but has done a great deal toward retarding it.

  Matilda Joslyn Gage

  Civilization, Religion, Atheism

  Matilda Joslyn Gage (1893). “Woman, Church and State: A Historical Account of the Status of Woman Through the Christian Ages: with Reminiscences of Matriarchate”

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• It is true that we shall not be able to reach perfection, but in our struggle toward it we shall strengthen our characters and give stability to our ideas, so that, whilst ever advancing calmly in the same direction, we shall be rendered capable of applying the faculties with which we have been gifted to the best possible account.

  Confucius

  Being Strong, Struggle, Character

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• Slumber not in the tents of your fathers. The world is advancing.

  Giuseppe Mazzini

  Change, Father, Progress

  Giuseppe Mazzini (1905). “Autobiographical and political”

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• While General Howe with a Large Armament is advancing towards New York, our Congress resolved to Declare the United Colonies free and Independent States. A Declaration for this Purpose, I expect, will this day pass Congress...It is gone so far that we must now be a free independent State, or a Conquered Country.

  Abraham Clark

  Country, New York, 4th Of July

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• To measur whether it is humility or depression, check whether you are advancing spiritually or going down.

  Radhanath Swami

  Humility, Checks

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• ...the mayor should not be advancing a policy that encourages [illegal] immigrants to think of New York City as their safe haven.

  Ed Koch

  New York, Safe Haven, Thinking

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• The EU and the U.S. often work together to develop international standards. This is the case in fighting terrorism and transnational crime, advancing trade liberalization, and combating piracy and intellectual property violations.

  John Bruton

  Fighting, Intellectual, Working Together

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• Our colonizers have taught us to believe that our health has improved because of Western medicine, Western foods, and Western technology. In a society that values progress, our colonizers taught us that conditions in the world are perpetually improving, that with each new technological advancement, each new discovery, each new way to utilize resources, each new way to alter the environment, that the world is getting better, that it is advancing. These are all lies.

  Waziyatawin

  Lying, Believe, Technology

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• Perhaps this is an area where every generation starts from scratch. Although the crisis of the First World War inaugurated an especially strong period of disillusion with regard to the optimism of the previous age, the pattern has repeated itself in many ways in more recent times, e.g., the loss of faith in politics as a means of advancing human well-being. And perhaps this also has to do with basic elements in growing up.

  George Pattison

  Strong, Growing Up, War

  "Towards hope". Interview with Richard Marshall, www.3ammagazine.com. July 18, 2014.

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• Come with me into the woods where spring is advancing, as it does, no matter what, not being singular or particular, but one of the forever gifts, and certainly visible.

  Mary Oliver

  Spring, Forever, Doe

  Mary Oliver (2013). “Dog Songs: Deluxe Edition”, p.30, Penguin

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• A plodding diligence brings us sooner to our journey's end than a fluttering way of advancing by starts.

  Roger L'Estrange

  Journey, Way, Diligence

  Sir Roger L'Estrange (1714). “Fables of Æsop and other eminent mythologists: with morals and reflections”, p.150

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• The analytical writer observes the reader as he is; accordingly, he makes his calculation, sets his machine to make the appropriate effect on him. The synthetic writer constructs and creates his own reader; he does not imagine him as resting and dead, but lively and advancing toward him. He makes that which he had invented gradually take shape before the reader's eyes, or he tempts him to do the inventing for himself. He does not want to make a particular effect on him, but rather enters into a solemn relationship of innermost symphilosophy or sympoetry.

  Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

  Eye, Doe, Machines

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• No, no! The energy of life may be Kept on after the grave, but not begun; And he who flagg'd not in the earthly strife, From strength to strength advancing--only he His soul well-knit, and all his battles won, Mounts, and that hardly, to eternal life.

  Matthew Arnold

  Energy Of Life, Soul, Battle

  Matthew Arnold (1869). “Poems”, p.129

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• ... we will hope that future historians will explain the morbid symptoms of present-day society as the childhood ailments of an aspiring humanity, due entirely to the excessive speed at which civilization was advancing.

  Albert Einstein

  Civilization, Childhood, Humanity

  Albert Einstein (2011). “The World As I See It”, p.18, Open Road Media

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• The man whose acquisitions stick is the man who is always achieving and advancing whilst his neighbors, spending most of their time in relearning what they once knew but have forgotten, simply hold their own.

  William James

  Learning, Men, Sticks

  William James (1961). “Psychology: The Briefer Course”, p.160, Courier Corporation

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• O give me new figures! I can't go on dancing The same that were taught me ten seasons ago; The schoolmaster over the land is advancing, Then why is the master of dancing so slow? It is such a bore to be always caught tripping In dull uniformity year after year; Invent something new, and you'll set me a skipping: I want a new figure to dance with my Dear!

  Thomas Haynes Bayly

  Years, Land, Giving

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• 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

  Evolution, Creation, Currents

  Maharishi Mahesh Yogi (1986). “Thirty Years Around the World: 1957-1964”, Stichting Drukkerij En Uitgeverij Mvu

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• I hold that in this country there must be complete severance of Church and State; that public moneys shall not be used for the purpose of advancing any particular creed; and therefore that the public schools shall be nonsectarian and no public moneys appropriated for sectarian schools.

  Theodore Roosevelt

  Country, School, Presidential

  Theodore Roosevelt (2005). “Fear God and Take Your Own Part”, p.361, Cosimo, Inc.

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• If a scene doesn't work on three levels - it's not advancing the story, the characters, and telling me something new - then put it in the trash.

  Catherine Hardwicke

  Character, Three, Stories

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• OneBeat is one of the greatest initiatives in advancing the meeting of cultures worldwide.

  Dave Douglas

  Culture, Initiative, Meetings

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• We are advancing, we are responding, we are having major apprehensions of the most wanted, most dangerous criminals, overall, we continue to work toward a Mexico of peace that we all want.

  Enrique Pena Nieto

  Peace, Criminals, Mexico

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• There's a feeling that feels like what I've been told is love. It has to do with what Louis Schwartzberg said today about beauty, love, whether it's squirrels outside my door, the rabbits, or the birds. They're not trying to impress me or anything, and me watching them isn't getting me or advancing me in anything. It's just beautiful. When I think of the relationship I'm in, there's a feeling that comes over me sometimes.

  Daphne Zuniga

  Beautiful, Thinking, Squirrels

  "Daphne Zuniga Opens Up About Mindfulness And Finding Love In ORIGIN Magazine". Interview with Maranda Pleasant, www.huffingtonpost.com. October 13, 2013.

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• ACA is advancing an agenda of dramatic and necessary change in how medical care is delivered in the U.S.

  John E. McDonough

  Aca, Necessary Change, Agendas

  Source: sponsored.bostonglobe.com

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• You have far more power to heal and be healthy than you ever dreamed possible. Your health is not outside of you. And you don't need to deteriorate with advancing age.

  Christiane Northrup

  Healthy, Age, Needs

  "Christiane Northrup, MD, New York Times Best-Selling Author: Growing Older Mindfully". Interview with Maranda Pleasant, www.marandapleasantmedia.com. January 27, 2015.

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