Quotes and Sayings About Advancement
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The powers contained in a constitution...ought to be construed liberally in advancement of the public good.
-- Alexander Hamilton -
It's impracticable to halt the exponential advancement of technology.
-- Ben Goertzel -
Thomas Jefferson explained, Congress has not unlimited powers to provide for the general welfare, but only those specifically enumerated. .. If Congress can determine what constitutes the general welfare and can appropriate money for its advancement, where is the limitation to carrying into execution whatever can be effected by money?.
-- Bill Drayton -
Your ability to work with others on a complex task is a critical skill for advancement at work.
-- Brian Tracy -
The Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching has been in existence for most of this century.
-- C. Everett Koop -
One general law, leading to the advancement of all organic beings, namely, multiply, vary, let the strongest live and the weakest die.
-- Charles Darwin -
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 -
Being involved in the well-being and advancement of one's own community is a most natural thing to do.
-- Clarence Clemons -
In America we have a Declaration of Independence, but our history, our advancements, our global strength all point to an American declaration of interdependence.
-- Cory Booker -
Nothing is more precious than peace. Peace is the most basic starting point for the advancement of humankind.
-- Daisaku Ikeda -
The advancement of all sciences, especially where there has been such a radical change, have been attended with persecution.
-- Daniel D. Palmer -
Setting is preliminary to brighter rising; decay is a process of advancement; death is the condition of higher and more fruitful life.
-- Edwin Hubbel Chapin -
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.
-- Elizabeth Gilbert -
We have to take away from humans in the long run their reproductive autonomy as the only way to guarantee the advancement of mankind.
-- Francis Crick -
Advancement only come with habitually doing more than you are asked
-- Gary Ryan -
... the business of life shuts us up within the environs of London and within sight of human advancement, which I should be so very glad to believe in without seeing.
-- George Eliot -
When any system has for its goal the advancement of the system over the betterment of its individual members, such a system is embedded in slavery.
-- Gerry Spence -
...reasonable natures have free will, and can turn to the good or the bad voluntarily by themselves. 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 -
It is important that spiritual advancement must keep pace with material advancement...
-- Haile Selassie -
Disputes among natural philosophers are of use to science, as the quarrels of the great, and the clamors of the little, are necessary to freedom of thought and the advancement of learning.
-- Hal Hellman -
the higher the step of advancement, the heavier is the fall.
-- Heloise -
Those who do the most for the world's advancement are the ones who demand the least.
-- Henry Latham Doherty -
Nothing tends so much to the advancement of knowledge as the application of a new instrument.
-- Humphry Davy -
Be grateful for every thing good and bad that comes to you. For all things have contributed to your advancement.
-- J. P. Blake -
Mary Lincoln provided Elizabeth Keckley with opportunities for social and economic advancement she probably had never imagined during her years as a slave, while Elizabeth offered Mary the loyal, steadfast friendship she craved but had always found so elusive.
-- Jennifer Chiaverini -
Without moving beyond a mere copy, there is no artistry, no originality or artistic advancement; only mechanics.
-- Jennifer Young -
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 -
Sometimes God makes use of instruments for good to His people, who designed nothing but evil and mischief to them. Thus Joseph's brethren were instrumental to his advancement in that very thing in which they designed his ruin (Gen. 50:20).
-- John Flavel -
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 -
In any country, corruption tends to increase when more respectable means of social advancement break down.
-- Katherine Boo