Haile Selassie
Emperor
"It is important that spiritual advancement must keep pace with material advancement."
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Advancement
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Saint Augustine
Theologian, Philosopher
"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."
Niccolo Machiavelli
Political Philosopher, Historian
"He who is the cause of another's advancement is thereby the cause of his own ruin."
Marie Curie
Physicist, Chemist
"I was taught the method for advancement is not quick or simple."
Victor Hugo
Novelist, Poet
"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."
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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."
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"The despotism of custom is everywhere the standing hindrance to human advancement."
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"Do not hold the delusion that your advancement is accomplished by crushing others."
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"Nothing is more precious than peace. Peace is the most basic starting point for the advancement of humankind."
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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."
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"Government isn't that good at rapid advancement of technology. It tends to be better at funding basic research. To have things take off, you've got to have commercial companies do it."
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"No body of knowledge needs an organizational policy. Organizational policy can only impede the advancement of knowledge. There is a basic incompatibility between any organization and freedom of thought."
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"Nay, do not think I flatter. For what advancement may I hope from thee, That no revenue hast but thy good spirits To feed and clothe thee? Why should the poor be flattered?"
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"Even the development of the steam engine owed but little to the advancement of science."
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"Without moving beyond a mere copy, there is no artistry, no originality or artistic advancement; only mechanics."
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"Your ability to work with others on a complex task is a critical skill for advancement at work."
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"The perpetual obstacle to human advancement is custom."
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"But we need a medical community that's trained and knowledgeable and working on advancement."
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"So on this Human Rights Day, let us rededicate ourselves to the advancement of human rights and freedoms for all, and pledge always to live by the ideals we promote to the world."
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"Modern marriage is first and foremost a romantic and private union, but the tax laws and inheritance laws and religious implications that still surround this institution indicate that marriage has evolved without casting away its earlier purposes or assumptions. It's like we just keep building on this thing, piling new advancements on the old model."
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"Science is my JAM. I am very excited to see where science and technological advancements will take us in the next few decades."
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"An absence of antecedents and of relatives is sometimes an aid rather than an impediment to social advancement . . ."
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"There is a material advancement; we desire it. There is, also, a moral grandeur; we hold fast to it."
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"Virtually every advancement made by our species since civilization first peeked out of its nest of stone has been initiated by lone individuals, mavericks who more often than not were ignored, mocked, or viciously persecuted by society and its institutions."
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"It is absolutely necessary, both for our advancement and the salvation of others, to follow always and in all things the beautiful light of faith"
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