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Men who do not make advances to women are apt to become...

Men who do not make advances to women are apt to become victims to women who make advances to them.

Quote by Walter Bagehot about victims, man

Let our advance worrying become advance thinking and...

Let our advance worrying become advance thinking and planning.

Quote by Winston Churchill about thinking

The history of our country is not the history of any other country in the world which is either practicing advanced democracy or struggling to lay the foundation for democracy.

Quote by Ibrahim Babangida about democracy, history, country, world

The reason is that till date, in spite of advances in information technology and strategies of information, the written word in the form of books still remains one of humanity's most enduring legacies.

Quote by Ibrahim Babangida about technology, humanity, word, books, reason

We're trying to be as technologically advanced as we can...

We're trying to be as technologically advanced as we can get away with. We're trying to speak the kids' language.

Quote by Willie Aames about language

While all other sciences have advanced, that of government is at a standstill - little better understood, little better practiced now than three or four thousand years ago.

Quote by John Adams

To read the report of a discussion in which arguments for and against are presented, in which a subject has been covered from different points of view, with new ideas advanced - this is far more instructive than to read a brief account of the...

Quote by Fredrik Bajer

Your lost friends are not dead, but gone before, advanced...

Your lost friends are not dead, but gone before, advanced a stage or two upon that road which you must travel in the steps they trod.

Quote by Aristophanes about friendship

The more thou dost advance, the more thy feet pitfalls will meet. The Path that leadeth on is lighted by one fire- the light of daring burning in the heart. The more one dares, the more he shall obtain. The more he fears, the more that light shall...

Quote by Aristotel about light, fire, fire brigade, heart

The wisest use of American strength is to advance freedom.

The wisest use of American strength is to advance freedom.

Quote by George W. Bush about americans, use

Use power to help people. For we are given power not to advance our own purposes nor to make a great show in the world, nor a name. There is but one just use of power and it is to serve people.

Quote by George W. Bush about power, use, name, help, people, world

Much of his and also my time was spent on designing and...

Much of his and also my time was spent on designing and building advanced electronic equipment for improved NMR spectrometers.

Quote by Richard Ernst about time

For a long time many believed that there would be an automatic adjustment and counted on a rapid increase in the wages of the emerging nations, on our advances in technology and the costs of transport preventing disruption. But this reassuring...

Quote by Laurent Fabius about technology, nation, time

I approved the Maastricht treaty because it contained a major advance: the Euro. Despite its current shortcomings (it remains too strong) it can be a means of stability and power in the world.

Quote by Laurent Fabius about power, world

The demographic weight of countries such as China and India exercise a massive pressure on our wages and salaries. They have accomplished massive technological advances and the revolution in information technology has reduced the costs of transport.

Quote by Laurent Fabius about salary, revolution, technology, country

The great weight of the ship may indeed prevent her from acquiring her greatest velocity; but when she has attained it, she will advance by her own intrinsic motion, without gaining any new degree of velocity, or lessening what she has acquired.

Quote by William Falconer

The old gentlemen called a conference among themselves...

The old gentlemen called a conference among themselves for the next day and went home for slumbers so essential in their advanced years.

Quote by John Thomas Flynn about essential, home, old, olderness, day

All the technical advances have made it interesting for that inexplicable thing called acting, and it's allowing directors to go out and do their thing.

Quote by Peter Fonda about things

All my children have spoken for themselves since they first learned to speak, and not always with my advance approval, and I expect that to continue in the future.

Quote by Gerald R. Ford about future, children

As we advance in life we learn the limits of our abilities.

As we advance in life we learn the limits of our abilities.

Quote by Henry Ford about ability, limits, life

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