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Advances in technology neither impede nor augment literature. -- Cynthia Ozick
Advances are Made by Answering Questions. Discoveries are Made by Questioning Answers. -- Bernard Haisch
Advances in the technology of telecommunications have proved an unambiguous threat to totalitarian regimes everywhere. -- Rupert Murdoch
Advances in science help to delegitimize the rule of kings and the power of the Church. -- Karl Marx
Advances are made by those with at least a touch of irrational confidence in what they can do. -- Lillian Hellman
Advances in medicine and agriculture have saved vastly more lives than have been lost in all the wars in history. -- Carl Sagan
Advances have fallen, generally, for everything except the biggest potential bestsellers. Given all the changes, both economic and technological, SF hasn't done too badly. -- Alan Dean Foster
Advances in science and medical research and public health policies have meant that life expectancy for Australians is one of the highest in the world. -- Julie Bishop
Advances in technology and in our understanding of illness and disease together with an expanded workforce and greater resources will allow us to provide more services to a higher quality. -- John Hutton
Advances in computer technology and the Internet have changed the way America works, learns, and communicates. The Internet has become an integral part of America's economic, political, and social life -- William J. Clinton
Advances in technology have opened up possibilities in the cultural realm throughout history. I'm intrigued by developments in technology - as an artist it gives me a new palette to explore. -- Janet Echelman
Advances in technology will continue to reach far into every sector of our economy. Future job and economic growth in industry, defense, transportation, agriculture, health care, and life sciences is directly related to scientific advancement. -- Christopher Bond
Advances in technology - hugely beneficial though they are - render us vulnerable in new ways. For instance, our interconnected world depends on elaborate networks: electric power grids, air traffic control, international finance, just-in-time delivery, and so forth. -- Martin Rees
Advances don't fundamentally interest me. It sounds terribly naive, but money doesn't really mean anything to me. If a lot of money came my way, I'm certainly not going to say no. But it hasn't come my way as yet, and I'm not heartbroken. -- Upamanyu Chatterjee
Woman begins by resisting a man's advances and ends by blocking his retreat. -- Oscar Wilde
To me there has never been a higher source of earthly honor or distinction than that connected with advances in science. -- Isaac Newton
Leisure and curiosity might soon make great advances in useful knowledge, were they not diverted by minute emulation and laborious trifles. -- Samuel Johnson
Some of the greatest, most revolutionary advances in science have been given their initial expression in attractively modest terms, with no fanfare. -- Daniel Dennett
Modern medical advances have helped millions of people live longer, healthier lives. We owe these improvements to decades of investment in medical research. -- Ike Skelton
The greatest advances of civilization, whether in architecture or painting, in science and literature, in industry or agriculture, have never come from centralized government. -- Milton Friedman
Government has a habit of blaming the private sector for its own failings while taking credit for advances we in fact owe to the private sector. -- Thomas Woods
I'm thankful for the incredible advances in medicine that have taken place during my lifetime. I almost certainly wouldn't still be here if it weren't for them. -- Billy Graham
In the industrial revolution Britain led the world in advances that enabled mass production: trade exchanges, transportation, factory technology and new skills needed for the new industrialised world. -- Lucy Powell
If one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams, and endeavors to live the life which he has imagined, he will meet with a success unexpected in common hours. -- Henry David Thoreau
There is no road too long to the man who advances deliberately and without undue haste; there are no honors too distant to the man who prepares himself for them with patience. -- Jean de la Bruyere
I'm not sure the least educated members of the population are missing out on the advances in medical technology as much as they are adopting harmful behavioral habits that shorten their life. -- S. Jay Olshansky
I have learned, that if one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams, and endeavors to live the life he has imagined, he will meet with a success unexpected in common hours. -- Henry David Thoreau
The general who advances without coveting fame and retreats without fearing disgrace, whose only thought is to protect his country and do good service for his sovereign, is the jewel of the kingdom. -- Sun Tzu
The major advances in speed of communication and ability to interact took place more than a century ago. The shift from sailing ships to telegraph was far more radical than that from telephone to email! -- Noam Chomsky
While advances in scientific research have led to some new and exciting treatments that have enlarged and enhanced the quality and length of human life, we must not lose sight as to what we are trying to accomplish. -- Nathan Deal
If you ask an economist what's driven economic growth, it's been major advances in things that mattered - the mechanization of farming, mass manufacturing, things like that. The problem is, our society is not organized around doing that. -- Larry Page
As civilisation advances, the deities lessen in number, the divine powers become concentrated more and more in one Being, and God rules over the whole earth, maketh the clouds his chariot, and reigns above the waterfloods as a king. -- Annie Besant
From stoplights to skyscrapers, turn anywhere in civilization and you will see imagination at work. It's in our inventions, advances and remedies and how a single parent masterminds each day. Imagination is boundless, surrounds us and resides in us all. -- Geoffrey S. Fletcher
People get cranky when you burst their bubble. Over time, advances in astronomy have relentlessly reinforced the utter insignificance of Earth on a celestial scale. Fortunately, political and religious leaders stopped barbecuing astronomers for saying so, turning their spits with human-rights activists instead. -- Nathan Myhrvold
Since boredom advances and boredom is the root of all evil, no wonder, then, that the world goes backwards, that evil spreads. This can be traced back to the very beginning of the world. The gods were bored; therefore they created human beings. -- Soren Kierkegaard
Although prefabrication has a long history - the ancient Romans shipped pre-cut stone columns, pediments, and other architectural elements to their colonies in North Africa, where the numbered parts were reassembled into temples - the idea took on a new impetus with the technological advances of the Industrial Revolution. -- Martin Filler
We live increasingly in a world of haves and have-nots, of gated communities next to ghettos, of extreme poverty and unbelievable riches. Some enjoy rights that are completely denied to others. Relative inequalities are exploding, and the world's poorest, despite all the advances of globalisation, may even be getting poorer. -- Noreena Hertz
The ever quickening advances of science made possible by the success of the Human Genome Project will also soon let us see the essences of mental disease. Only after we understand them at the genetic level can we rationally seek out appropriate therapies for such illnesses as schizophrenia and bipolar disease. -- James D. Watson
Science advances funeral by funeral -- Max Planck
Funeral by funeral, theory advances. -- Paul Samuelson
Mankind advances only through struggle. -- Gustav Stresemann
I don't take advances for my books. -- Andrew Vachss
Hail to the chief in triumph advances. -- Walter Scott
Science advances one funeral at a time. -- Max Planck
As civilization advances, poetry almost necessarily declines. -- Thomas B. Macaulay
As civilization advances, poetry almost necessarily declines. -- Thomas B. Macaulay
As technology advances, the rendering time remains constant. -- Jim Blinn
As society advances the standard of poverty rises. -- Theodore Parker
Knowledge advances by steps, and not by leaps. -- Thomas B. Macaulay
Men are much more agressive with their advances. -- Dave Navarro
All human advances occur in the outlaw area. -- R. Buckminster Fuller
The more humanity advances, the more it is degraded. -- Gustave Flaubert
Knowledge does not advance practice. Rather practice advances knowledge. -- Richard Pascale
That saint who advances on his knees never retreats... -- Jim Elliot
Really advanced civilization is based on advances in energy. -- Bill Gates
The future of society is 100% dependent on scientific advances. -- Craig Venter
Who cares how time advances? I am drinking ale today. -- Edgar Allan Poe
Development comes from within. Nature does not hurry but advances slowly. -- Fred Rogers
individual advances turn into social change when enough of them occur ... -- Elizabeth Janeway
I grew up in a generation that had exponential technological advances. -- Louis C. K.
The road recedes as the traveler advances, leaving a continuous present. -- Richard Le Gallienne
Scientific knowledge advances haltingly and is stimulated by contention and doubt. -- Claude Levi-Strauss
Thank heaven for startups; without them we'd never have any advances. -- Seymour Cray
Female cats are very Lascivious, and make advances to the male. -- Aristotle
As technology advances in complexity and scope, fear becomes more primitive. -- Don DeLillo
[Man will never reach the Moon] regardless of all future scientific advances. -- Lee De Forest
Real progress is progress in charity, all other advances being secondary thereto. -- Aldous Huxley
Scientists have made extraordinary advances in understanding the brain and its disorders. -- Kay Redfield Jamison
Time ... advances like the slowest tide, but retreats like the swiftest torrent. -- Charles Caleb Colton
The tide of history only advances when people make themselves fully visible. -- Anderson Cooper
Technological advances could allow us to see more clearly into our own lives. -- Kevin Kelly
One of the big technical advances that's really great looking is the water. -- John Lasseter
Synergy and serendipity often play a big part in medical and scientific advances. -- Julie Bishop
Humanity, like armies in the field, advances at the speed of the slowest. -- Gabriel Garcia Marquez
Walks. The body advances, while the mind flutters around it like a bird. -- Jules Renard
With scientific advances, Congress must now make changes to reflect new therapeutic options. -- Nathan Deal
Beautiful girls should know how to defend themselves against the advances of gentlemen. -- Cassandra Clare
To fairy flutes, As the light advances, In square black boots The cabman dances. -- J. B. Morton
The impediment to action advances action. What stands in the way becomes the way. -- Marcus Aurelius
The cross pollination of disciplines is fundamental to truly revolutionary advances in our culture. -- Neil deGrasse Tyson
Fierce language and pretentious advances are signs that the enemy is about to retreat. -- Sun Tzu
Nearly all of the advances in structural and aesthetic innovation is coming from abroad. -- Arthur Erickson
Most young women do not welcome promiscuous advances. (Either that, or my luck's terrible.) -- Groucho Marx
In spite of the advances of medicine, deathly epidemics are more menacing than ever before. -- Christian de Duve
The great advances in science usually result from new tools rather than from new doctrines. -- Freeman Dyson
The further the soul advances, the greater are the adversaries against which it must contend. -- Evagrius Ponticus
Technology continues to bring us wondrous advances in filmmaking to improve how we view movies. -- Ridley Scott
In science the important thing is to modify and change one's ideas as science advances. -- Herbert Spencer
Continuing advances in stem cell medicine will change all of our lives for the better. -- Peter Jackson
The good is, like nature, an immense landscape in which man advances through centuries of exploration. -- Jose Ortega y Gasset
Physics advances by accepting absurdities. Its history is one of unbelievable ideas proving to be true. -- Rivka Galchen
Modern medicine, for all its advances, knows less than 10 percent of what your body knows instinctively. -- Deepak Chopra
When science advances religion goes along with it; science builds the altar at which religion prays. -- Joseph Parker
When natural inclination develops into a passionate desire, one advances towards his goal in seven-league boots. -- Nikola Tesla
A man's ideal, like his horizon, is constantly receding from him as he advances toward it. -- William Greenough Thayer Shedd
A lady has every right to defend herself against unsought advances. And creatures of the night. -- Teresa Medeiros
Birth Control and abortion are turning out to be the great eugenic advances of our time. -- Frederick Osborn
Justice is not to be taken by storm. She is to be wooed by slow advances. -- Benjamin Cardozo
Civilization advances by extending the number of important operations which we can perform without thinking of them. -- Alfred North Whitehead
Explore, Dream & Discover are 3 secrets which the time traveler is unaware. They demystify as the journey advances! -- Vishwanath S J
For the concept of a circuit of the blood does not destroy, but rather advances traditional medicine. -- William Harvey
When the enemy advances, withdraw; when he stops, harass; when he tires, strike; when he retreats, pursue. -- Mao Zedong
The theist and the scientist are rival interpreters of nature, the one retreats as the other advances. -- Joseph McCabe
All children find chaos congenial. Any unruliness, even by nature, advances the child's program of subverting authority. -- George Will
Virtue would not make such advances if there were not a little vanity to keep it company. -- Francois de La Rochefoucauld
Music raises in the mind of the hearer great conceptions: it strengthens and advances praise into rapture. -- Joseph Addison
Science advances, not by the accumulation of new facts, but by the continuos development of new concepts. -- James Bryant Conant
Indeed, it is not intellect, but intuition which advances humanity. Intuition tells man his purpose in this life. -- Albert Einstein
Humanity's greatest advances are not in its discoveries but in how those discoveries are applied to reduce inequity -- Bill Gates
The playing adult steps sideward into another reality; the playing child advances forward to new stages of mastery. -- Erik Erikson
Moreover, I wish to assure you both that I did not make any amorous advances on female monkeys. -- Cassandra Clare
it is inconceivable that poverty eradication can make much headway in the absence of major advances in literacy. -- Koichiro Matsuura
Most of my advances were by mistake. You uncover what is when you get rid of what isn't. -- R. Buckminster Fuller
The further art advances the closer it approaches science, the further science advances the closer it approaches art. -- R. Buckminster Fuller
There is nothing wrong with a woman welcoming all men's advances as long as they are in cash -- Zsa Zsa Gabor
The world changes materially. Science makes advances in technology and understanding. But the world of humanity doesn't change. -- Pierre Schaeffer
Too often, advances in civil rights or women's rights are undermined by wrong-headed legislation or weak-kneed political leadership. -- Mike Quigley
The quicker humanity advances, the more important it is to be the one who deals the first blow. -- Ernst Kaltenbrunner
Democracy does not have to be a bloodsport, it can be an honorable enterprise that advances the public interest. -- William J. Clinton
Certainly none of the advances made in civilization has been due to counterrevolutionaries and advocates of the status quo. -- Bill Mauldin

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