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The despotism of custom is everywhere the standing hindrance to human advancement. ↗

— John Stuart Mill

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Justice is not to be taken by storm. She is to be wooed by slow advances. ↗

— Benjamin Cardozo

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I prefer to play and lose rather than win, because I know in advance I'm going to win. ↗

— Eric Cantona

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Americans rightly asked, if this is the way our government responds to a natural disaster it knew about days in advance, how would it respond to a surprise terrorist attack? How would it respond to an earthquake? ↗

— Russ Carnahan

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Class action lawsuits are an important part of our legal system. All citizens should have the right to band together and settle grievances with bigger companies, but that system is broken and it needs fixing. ↗

— Thomas Carper

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I began to speak well at a very advanced age - 15, 16, 17 years old. It was psychological: the trauma of war, my family and growing up on my own. I was more or less a street kid. ↗

— Roberto Cavalli

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But if our sex would but well consider and rationally ponder, they will perceive and find that it is neither words nor place that can advance them, but worth and merit. ↗

— Margaret Cavendish

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I thank you in advance for the great round of applause I'm about to get. ↗

— Bo Diddley

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But each country has to advance and move at its own speed. ↗

— Al-Waleed bin Talal

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Because I don't give the studios advanced quotes or an advanced look at my reviews. I think the readers deserve to read my reviews before the studios do. ↗

— Roger Ebert

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