#advances

The rare person is still interested in new advances when they are adults. There is possibly a correlation with intelligence. In any case, you have to be fairly bright to keep learning and changing attitudes as you get older. ↗

— Keith Henson

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All that seems indispensible in stating the account between the dead and the living, is to see that the debts against the latter do not exceed the advances made by the former. ↗

— James Madison

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To me there has never been a higher source of earthly honor or distinction than that connected with advances in science. ↗

— Isaac Newton

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If you ask an economist what's driven economic growth, it's been major advances in things that mattered - the mechanization of farming, mass manufacturing, things like that. The problem is, our society is not organized around doing that. ↗

— Larry Page

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As society advances the standard of poverty rises. ↗

— Theodore Parker

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It is well known that Beauty does not look with a good grace on the timid advances of Humour. ↗

— W. Somerset Maugham

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The theist and the scientist are rival interpreters of nature, the one retreats as the other advances. ↗

— Joseph McCabe

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Leisure and curiosity might soon make great advances in useful knowledge, were they not diverted by minute emulation and laborious trifles. ↗

— Samuel Johnson

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If a man does not make new acquaintances as he advances through life, he will soon find himself left alone. A man, sir, should keep his friendship in a constant repair. ↗

— Samuel Johnson

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Technological advances could allow us to see more clearly into our own lives. ↗

— Kevin Kelly

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