#advance

He who could foresee affairs three days in advance would be rich for thousands of years. ↗

— Thomas Carlyle

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The person is always happy who is in the presence of something they cannot know in full. A person as advanced far in the study of morals who has mastered the difference between pride and vanity. ↗

— Nicolas Chamfort

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The major advances in speed of communication and ability to interact took place more than a century ago. The shift from sailing ships to telegraph was far more radical than that from telephone to email! ↗

— Noam Chomsky

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The more humanity advances, the more it is degraded. ↗

— Gustave Flaubert

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Gender consciousness has become involved in almost every intellectual field: history, literature, science, anthropology. There's been an extraordinary advance. ↗

— Clifford Geertz

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The very best impromptu speeches are the ones written well in advance. ↗

— Ruth Gordon

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There are few things that we so unwillingly give up, even in advanced age, as the supposition that we still have the power of ingratiating ourselves with the fair sex. ↗

— Samuel Johnson

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Nobody knew in advance that in vitro fertilization would be, by and large, safe. ↗

— Leon Kass

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If one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams, and endeavors to live the life which he has imagined, he will meet with success unexpected in common hours. ↗

— Henry David Thoreau

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Winners make a habit of manufacturing their own positive expectations in advance of the event. ↗

— Brian Tracy

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