Advance Quotes
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I know well enough in advance that you'll find my paintings perfect. I know that if they are exhibited they'll be a great success, but I couldn't be more indifferent to it since I know they are bad, I'm certain of it.
Claude Monet
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There's no credit buying on eternal things, none at all. Anything that is worthwhile has to be paid for in advance.
Boyd K. Packer
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There is a metaphysical honour in ending the world's absurdity. Conquest or play-acting, multiple loves, absurd revolt are tributes that man pays to his dignity in a campaign in which he is defeated in advance.... War cannot be negated. One must live it or die of it. So it is with the absurd: it is a question of breathing with it, of recognizing its lessons and recovering their flesh. In this regard the absurd joy par excellence is creation. "Art and nothing but art", said Nietzsche, "we have art in order not to die of the truth."
Albert Camus
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Everybody has barriers and obstacles. If you look at them as containing fences that don't allow you to advance, then you're going to be a failure. If you look at them as hurdles that strengthen you each time you go over one, then you're going to be a success.
Benjamin Carson
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The price we pay for our advance in civilization is a loss of happiness through the heightening of the sense of guilt.
Sigmund Freud
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Experience shows that what happens is always the thing against which one has not made provision in advance.
John Maynard Keynes
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There are moments when we resort to senseless formulations and advance absurd claims to hide straightforward feelings.
Elena Ferrante
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Invariably will you find perseverance exemplified as the radical principle in every truly great character. It facilitates, perfects, and consolidates the execution of the plan conceived, and renders profitable its results when attained. By continuing to advance steadily in the same way, light constantly increases, obstacles disappear, efficient habits are confirmed, experience is acquired, the use of the best means is reduced to easy action, and success becomes more sure.
Elias Lyman Magoon
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I define anxiety as experiencing failure in advance.
Seth Godin
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Anytime destruction of another is needed in order to advance one's own aims or goals, then the goals need to be reevaluated.
David White
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Every advance in social progress removes us more and more from the guidance of instinct, obliging us to depend upon reason for the assurance that our habits are really agreeable to the laws of health.
Emily Blackwell
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Their fiery advance and great tenacity were well recognized by their opponents.
Ernst Otto Fischer
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I advance in life, I grow more simple, and I become more and more patriotic for humanity.
Victor Hugo
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Free trade has been one of the tenets of the modern Mexican economy, and it's through competition and free trade that we will continue to advance.
Ricardo Salinas Pliego
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Tragedies are all right for a while: you are concerned, you are curious, you feel good. And then it gets repetitive, it doesn't advance, it grows dreadfully boring: it is so very boring, even for me.
Simone de Beauvoir
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As every advance of Power is useful for war, so war is useful for the advance of power; war is like a sheep-dog harrying the laggard Powers to catch up their smarter fellows in the totalitarian race.
Bertrand de Jouvenel
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Capital simply allows us to expend labour in advance.
William Stanley Jevons
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Her silent course advance With inoffensive pace, that spinning sleeps On her soft axle.
John Milton
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We shall certainly not advance matters by jumping up and down shrilling, 'Darwin is god and I, so-and-so, am his prophet.
Errol White
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It feels like everything's been decided in advance that I'm following a path somebody else has already mapped out for me. It doesn't matter how much I think things over, how much effort I put into it. In fact, the harder I try, the more I lose my sense of who I am. It's like my identity's an orbit that I've strayed far away from, and that really hurts. But more than that, it scares me. Just thinking about it makes me flinch.
Haruki Murakami
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Hard Day's Night was one of those great films that will never happen again to anyone in their lifetime. UA were in profit before we'd even finished shooting - The advance sales on the album - the film was out before the album was out was more than it cost UA to make the film.
Richard Lester
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All my children have spoken for themselves since they first learned to speak, and not always with my advance approval, and I expect that to continue in the future.
Gerald Rudolph Ford Jr.
