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		Do not entertain the notion that you ought to advance in your prayer. If you do, you will only find you have put on the brake instead of the acceleration. All real progress in spiritual things comes gently, imperceptibly, and is the work of God. Our crude efforts spoil it. Know yourself for the childish, limited and dependent soul you are. Remember that the only growth which matters happens without our knowledge and that trying to stretch ourselves is both dangerous and silly. Think of the Infinite Goodness, never of your own state.
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				Evelyn Underhill
			
		
	
	
  
	 
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		Education is the point at which we decide whether we love the world enough to assume responsibility for it, and by the same token save it from that ruin which except for renewal, except for the coming of the new and the young, would be inevitable. And education, too, is where we decide whether we love our children enough not to expel them from our world and leave them to their own devices, nor to strike from their hands their chance of undertaking something new, something unforeseen by us, but to prepare them in advance for the task of renewing a common world.
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				Hannah Arendt
			
		
	
	
  
	 
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		If you wish to advance into the infinite, explore the finite in all directions.
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
			
		
	
	
  
	 
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		It will be politics that determines the material welfare of future generations: the pace at which we advance toward "our destination of economic bliss," andnperhaps, whether we continue to advance at all.
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				Eban Goodstein
			
		
	
	
  
	 
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		While Leonidas was preparing to make his stand, a Persian envoy arrived. The envoy explained to Leonidas the futility of trying to resist the advance of the Great King's army and demanded that the Greeks lay down their arms and submit to the might of Persia. Leonidas laconically told Xerxes, "Come and get them.
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				Plutarch
			
		
	
	
  
	 
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		A kind of synthesis, but with some elements that perhaps you wouldn't have expected in advance. I always like that when that happens, when something comes that is more than the sum of the parts.
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				Evan Parker
			
		
	
	
  
	 
	
		
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		The last advance of reason is to recognize that it is surpassed by innumerable things; it is feeble if it cannot realize that.
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				Blaise Pascal
			
		
	
	
  
	 
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		To seek in the great accumulation of the already-said the text that resembles "in advance" a later text, to ransack history in order to rediscover the play of anticipations or echoes, to go right back to the first seeds or to go forward to the last traces, to reveal in a work its fidelity to tradition or its irreducible uniqueness, to raise or lower its stock of originality, to say that the Port -Royal grammarians invented nothing, or to discover that Cuvier had more predecessors than one thought, these are harmless enough amusements for historians who refuse to grow up.
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				Michel Foucault
			
		
	
	
  
	 
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		Remember that you must never sell your soul. Never accept payment in advance.... Never give a work to the printer before it is finished. This is the worst thing you can do.... It constitutes the murder of your own ideas.
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				Fyodor Dostoevsky
			
		
	
	
  
	 
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		Only he who bestirs himself can advance spiritually. The fool who uses extraneous aids for this, in the form of the ready-made opinions of others, only walks his path as if on crutches, while ignoring his own healthy limbs.
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				Abd-ru-shin