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

— John Stuart Mill

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The advancement of all sciences, especially where there has been such a radical change, have been attended with persecution. ↗

— Daniel D. Palmer

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Water is a finite resource that is essential in the advancement of agriculture, and is vital to human life. ↗

— Jim Costa

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There is no greater impediment to the advancement of knowledge than the ambiguity of words. ↗

— Thomas Reid

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It is a remarkable honor to receive a Nobel Prize, because it not only recognizes discoveries, but also their usefulness to the advancement of fundamental science. ↗

— Peter Agre

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The object of all the former voyages to the South Seas undertaken by the command of his present majesty, has been the advancement of science and the increase of knowledge. ↗

— William Bligh

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Technology has advanced more in the last thirty years than in the previous two thousand. The exponential increase in advancement will only continue. Anthropological Commentary The opposite of a trivial truth is false; the opposite of a great truth is also true. ↗

— Niels Bohr

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The Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching has been in existence for most of this century. ↗

— C. Everett Koop

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Society as a whole benefits immeasurably from a climate in which all persons, regardless of race or gender, may have the opportunity to earn respect, responsibility, advancement and remuneration based on ability. ↗

— Sandra Day O'Connor

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Our object in these remarks has been not only to account for the slow progress which has as yet been made by Political Economy, and to suggest means by which its advancement may be accelerated, but also to warn the reader of the nature of the following Treatise. ↗

— Nassau William Senior

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