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You will be courteous to your elders who have explored to the point from which you may advance; and helpful to your juniors who will progress farther by reason of your labors. ↗

— Abbott L. Lowell

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Good luck is the willing handmaid of a upright and energetic character, and conscientious observance of duty. ↗

— James Russell Lowell

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Imagination is as vital to any advance in science as learning and precision are essential for starting points. ↗

— Percival Lowell

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I didn't see myself as any advance guard, or feminist. ↗

— Ida Lupino

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Social democracy... is only the advance guard of the proletariat, a small piece of the total working masses; blood from their blood, and flesh from their flesh. ↗

— Rosa Luxemburg

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Could I have but a line a century hence crediting a contribution to the advance of peace, I would yield every honor which has been accorded by war. ↗

— Douglas MacArthur

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As civilization advances, poetry almost necessarily declines. ↗

— Thomas B. Macaulay

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America was indebted to immigration for her settlement and prosperity. That part of America which had encouraged them most had advanced most rapidly in population, agriculture and the arts. ↗

— James Madison

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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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Each pursues his own theory, little solicitous to correct or improve it by an attention to what is advanced by his opponents. ↗

— Thomas Malthus

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