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I cannot help fearing that men may reach a point where they look on every new theory as a danger, every innovation as a toilsome trouble, every social advance as a first step toward revolution, and that they may absolutely refuse to move at all.


Alexis de Tocqueville


#advance #cannot #danger #every #fearing

I'm never proud of my old work. I always feel as though my skills have since improved.


Criss Jami


#art #better #betterment #change #creativity

Follow me if I advance, kill me if I retreat, avenge me if I die.


Mary Matalin


#avenge #die #follow #i #kill

Yeah. Floyd is his batman." His what?" Batman, like in the British army, each officer had a batman, a personal servant." You spend too much time reading, Spenser. You know more stuff that don't make you money than anybody I know.


Robert B. Parker


#britain #detectives #education #humor #irrelevance

Creativity is the highest form of intelligence. Over time, after developing a more advanced creative brain, I started feeling that my college education was more so something to be ashamed of rather than something to be proud of.


Criss Jami


#ashamed #brain #college #creativity #development

If my duty to my parents is a superstition, then so is my duty to posterity. If justice is a superstition, then so is my duty to my country or my race. If the pursuit of scientific knowledge is a real value, then so is conjugal fidelity. The rebellion of new ideologies against the Tao is a rebellion of the branches against the tree: if the rebels could succeed they would find that they had destroyed themselves.


C.S. Lewis


#culture #education #modern-society #post-modernism #society

No advance in wealth, no softening of manners, no reform or revolution has ever brought human equality a millimeter nearer.


George Orwell


#brought #equality #ever #human #manners

Experience has shown, and a true philosophy will always show, that a vast, perhaps the larger, portion of truth arises from the seemingly irrelevant.


Edgar Allan Poe


#life #philosophy #relevance #truth #experience

Girls Incorporated of Greater Philadelphia and Southern New Jersey continues to advance their cause and to strengthen their community by aspiring to open a Girl's Center for Philadelphia.


Robert Brady


#aspiring #cause #center #community #continues

Is there a gun that shoots rain? Oh yeah, water guns. How technologically advanced we are!



Jarod Kintz


#civilization #civilized #culture #funny #gun