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At times we expected the allies unquestioningly to follow our leads; sometimes we failed to consult them in advance before reversing policies; at other times we ignored their requests. ↗

— Richard Kerry

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There is a spirit and a need and a man at the beginning of every great human advance. Every one of these must be right for that particular moment of history, or nothing happens. ↗

— Coretta Scott King

#beginning #every #great #happens #history

Thus, in a sense, mathematics has been most advanced by those who distinguished themselves by intuition rather than by rigorous proofs. ↗

— Felix Klein

#been #distinguished #intuition #mathematics #most

The completion of my undergraduate training at the University of California (Berkeley) provided just the needed touches of rigor at advanced levels in both economics and mathematics. ↗

— Lawrence R. Klein

#berkeley #both #california #completion #economics

When the Americans advance, we harass and retreat, fire from new positions and then retreat again. If the attacking force is too big, we call for support. ↗

— Muqtada al Sadr

#again #attacking #big #call #fire

After taking my B.A. degree in 1939 I remained at the University for a further year to take an advanced course in Biochemistry, and surprised myself and my teachers by obtaining a first class examination result. ↗

— Frederick Sanger

#after #biochemistry #class #course #degree

I was never informed in advance about the start of the war or about foreign political developments. ↗

— Fritz Sauckel

#advance #developments #foreign #i #informed

The world changes materially. Science makes advances in technology and understanding. But the world of humanity doesn't change. ↗

— Pierre Schaeffer

#change #changes #humanity #makes #materially

It was amazing to watch him in the darkroom at an advanced age, still get excited when the results were pleasing. He still struggled like we all do in the darkroom and he struggled behind the camera, and when he had a success he was beaming. ↗

— John Sexton

#advanced age #age #amazing #behind #camera

When we are unwilling to draw clear moral lines between free societies and fear societies, when we are unwilling to call the former good and the latter evil, we will not be able to advance the cause of peace because peace cannot be disconnected from freedom. ↗

— Natan Sharansky

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