#advanced

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

Now, a lot of what we are doing right now, quite frankly, is because of what happened on Christmas. Many of the things were kind of in the works. We were already planning, for example, the purchase and deployment of advanced imaging technology. You call them body scanners. We call them AITs (Advanced Imaging Technologies). ↗

— Janet Napolitano

#already #because #body #call #christmas

I am a firm believer in education and have worked very hard to tell young Latinos that they must go to college and that, if possible, they should pursue an advanced degree. I am convinced that education is the great equalizer. ↗

— Jimmy Smits

#am #believer #college #convinced #degree

As Michigan's voice on the Senate Finance Committee and Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee, I will continue working to make sure the next generation of advanced technologies and alternative fuel vehicles are made right here in America. ↗

— Debbie Stabenow

#alternative #america #committee #continue #energy

The statistics of life out there and the statistics of intelligent beings and advanced civilization is a certainty, the way I look at it. that It has not been accepted, because we've been in an anthropocentric era. ↗

— Story Musgrave

#advanced #because #been #beings #certainty

In the last fifty years science has advanced more than in the 2,000 previous years and given mankind greater powers over the forces of nature than the ancients ascribed to their gods. ↗

— John Boyd Orr

#ascribed #fifty #forces #given #gods

In this eventful period the colony of New South Wales is already far advanced. ↗

— Charles Sturt

#already #colony #far #new #new south wales

So, one of the things I was doing with the aliens in The Quiet Invasion was creating that advanced society which had ideas about morality and proper use of natural resources that were radically different from ours, as the Europeans were from the American Indians. ↗

— Sarah Zettel

#advanced #american #american indians #creating #different

Then, I realized that there is an indigenous presence in the Solar System. It's us. So, then, I got to wondering what would happen if a more technologically advanced society moved next door to us, the way we moved next door to the American Indians. ↗

— Sarah Zettel

#american #american indians #door #got #happen

I'm concerned that my technical skills have advanced to the point where I can get closer to what I'm aiming for, which is not such a good thing. ↗

— David Byrne

#advanced #aiming #closer #concerned #get