#advance

I don't even know what the odds are for one kid or one team to make it here. Obviously, being from Canada this is their Stanley Cup - they made it. It's hard enough to get here and it's hard enough to advance. ↗

— John Atkinson

#being #canada #cup #enough #even

I cannot help fearing that men may reach a point where they look on every new theory as a danger, every innovation as a toilsome trouble, every social advance as a first step toward revolution, and that they may absolutely refuse to move at all. ↗

— Alexis de Tocqueville

#advance #cannot #danger #every #fearing

I'm never proud of my old work. I always feel as though my skills have since improved. ↗

— Criss Jami

#art #better #betterment #change #creativity

Follow me if I advance, kill me if I retreat, avenge me if I die. ↗

— Mary Matalin

#avenge #die #follow #i #kill

If my duty to my parents is a superstition, then so is my duty to posterity. If justice is a superstition, then so is my duty to my country or my race. If the pursuit of scientific knowledge is a real value, then so is conjugal fidelity. The rebellion of new ideologies against the Tao is a rebellion of the branches against the tree: if the rebels could succeed they would find that they had destroyed themselves. ↗

— C.S. Lewis

#culture #education #modern-society #post-modernism #society

No advance in wealth, no softening of manners, no reform or revolution has ever brought human equality a millimeter nearer. ↗

— George Orwell

#brought #equality #ever #human #manners

Is there a gun that shoots rain? Oh yeah, water guns. How technologically advanced we are!
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— Jarod Kintz

#civilization #civilized #culture #funny #gun

You have to watch all sides of your advancement, you have to make sure people's bodies and minds are healthy and their morale is cool before you can really go out and play great music. ↗

— Shirley Manson

#before #bodies #cool #go #great

All around me insisted that my doubts proved only my own ignorance and sinfulness; that they knew by experience they would soon give place to true knowledge, and an advance in religion; and I felt something like indecision. ↗

— Maria Monk

#around #doubts #experience #felt #give

I don't say 'Tis impossible for an impudent man not to rise in the world, but a moderate merit with a large share of impudence is more probable to be advanced than the greatest qualifications without it. ↗

— Mary Wortley Montagu

#greatest #i #impossible #impudence #impudent