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Letter "A" » advancing
«There is no sudden leap into the stratosphere... There is only advancing step by step, slowly and tortuously, up the pyramid towards your goals...»
«We are not retreating. We are advancing in another direction.»
«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»
Author: Matilda Joslyn Gage
| Keywords:
advancing, History of Christianity, retard, retarding, student
«Wildness and silence disappeared from the countryside, sweetness fell from the air, not because anyone wished them to vanish or fall but because throughways had to floor the meadows with cement to carry the automobiles which advancing technology produced. Tropical beaches turned into high-priced slums where thousand-room hotels elbowed each other for glimpses of once-famous surf not because those who loved the beaches wanted them there but because enormous jets could bring a million tourists every year -- and therefore did.»
Author: Archibald MacLeish
(Critic, Poet)
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Advanced Technology, advancing, beaches, cement, cementing, cements, countryside, every year, Famous Or, glimpses, high-priced, high technology, hotels, jets, meadows, priced, slum, slums, surf, surfing, sweetness, The Beaches, tourists, tropical, vanish, wildness
«The wine of youth does not always clear with advancing years; sometimes it grows turbid»
«The credit of advancing science has always been due to individuals and never to the age.»
«What convinces is conviction. Believe in the argument you're advancing. If you don't you're as good as dead. The other person will sense that something isn't there, and no chain of reasoning, no matter how logical or elegant or brilliant, will win your case for you.»
Author: Lyndon B. Johnson
(President)
| Keywords:
advancing, As Good as Dead, convinces, The Argument
«Yet the hour of emancipation is advancing . . . this enterprise is for the young; for those who can follow it up, and bear it through to it's consummation. it shall have all my prayers, and these are the only weapons of an old man.»
«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»
Author: William James
(Philosopher, Psychologist)
| Keywords:
achieving, acquisitions, advancing, neighbors, relearn, relearning, spending
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