#advance

You live in a deranged age, more deranged that usual, because in spite of great scientific and technological advances, man has not the faintest idea of who he is or what he is doing. ↗

— Walker Percy

#age #because #deranged #doing #faintest

Anyone who considers using a weapon of mass destruction against the United States or its allies must first consider the consequences... We would not specify in advance what our response would be, but it would be both overwhelming and devastating. ↗

— William J. Perry

#against #allies #anyone #both #consequences

If we all worked on the assumption that what is accepted as true is really true, there would be little hope of advance. ↗

— Orville Wright

#advance #assumption #hope #little #really

Bad luck with women is a determined man's road to success. For every affliction, he makes, out of indignation, yet another advancement in order to exceed the man that the woman chose over him. This goes to show that great men are made great because they once learned how to fight the feeling of rejection. ↗

— Criss Jami

#affliction #anger #bad #bad-luck #determination

The reason is that till date, in spite of advances in information technology and strategies of information, the written word in the form of books still remains one of humanity's most enduring legacies. ↗

— Ibrahim Babangida

#books #date #enduring #form #humanity

The history of our country is not the history of any other country in the world which is either practicing advanced democracy or struggling to lay the foundation for democracy. ↗

— Ibrahim Babangida

#any #country #democracy #either #foundation

Men who do not make advances to women are apt to become victims to women who make advances to them. ↗

— Walter Bagehot

#apt #become #make #men #them

It is a remarkable honor to receive a Nobel Prize, because it not only recognizes discoveries, but also their usefulness to the advancement of fundamental science. ↗

— Peter Agre

#also #because #discoveries #fundamental #honor

Your lost friends are not dead, but gone before, advanced a stage or two upon that road which you must travel in the steps they trod. ↗

— Aristophanes

#before #dead #friends #gone #lost

Having now reached a point where danger might be reasonably apprehended from strolling war parties of Indians, spies were kept in advance and strict diligence observed in the duty of sentinels. ↗

— William Henry Ashley

#apprehended #danger #diligence #duty #having