#vance

No greater injury can be done to any youth than to let him feel that because he belongs to this or that race he will be advanced in life regardless of his own merits or efforts. ↗

— Booker T. Washington

#any #because #belongs #done #efforts

The ever quickening advances of science made possible by the success of the Human Genome Project will also soon let us see the essences of mental disease. Only after we understand them at the genetic level can we rationally seek out appropriate therapies for such illnesses as schizophrenia and bipolar disease. ↗

— James D. Watson

#after #also #appropriate #bipolar #disease

Let that which stood in front go behind, let that which was behind advance to the front, let bigots, fools, unclean persons, offer new propositions, let the old propositions be postponed. ↗

— Walt Whitman

#behind #bigots #fools #front #go

Woman begins by resisting a man's advances and ends by blocking his retreat. ↗

— Oscar Wilde

#begins #blocking #ends #his #man

I wanted to do a movie about being really good at something, yet being socially awkward and not as advanced in your personal life as you are in your creative life. ↗

— Alicia Witt

#advanced #awkward #being #creative #creative life

It was my Uncle George who discovered that alcohol was a food well in advance of modern medical thought. ↗

— P. G. Wodehouse

#alcohol #discovered #food #george #medical

I wrote my thesis on the benefits of war and very near got thrown out of college. But I can show you where the greatest advancement of mankind comes under stress and strain, not comfort. ↗

— Don Young

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Time has been transformed, and we have changed; it has advanced and set us in motion; it has unveiled its face, inspiring us with bewilderment and exhilaration. ↗

— Khalil Gibran

#advanced #been #bewilderment #changed #exhilaration

If you wish in this world to advance your merits you're bound to enhance; You must stir it and stump it, and blow your own trumpet, Or, trust me, you haven't a chance. ↗

— William Gilbert

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I'm thankful for the incredible advances in medicine that have taken place during my lifetime. I almost certainly wouldn't still be here if it weren't for them. ↗

— Billy Graham

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