While all other sciences have advanced, that of government is at a standstill - little better understood, little better practiced now than three or four thousand years ago.
Politics is about the improvement of people's lives. It's about advancing the cause of peace and justice in our country and the world. Politics is about doing well for the people.
I get to the theatre in plenty of time; I prepare my shoes in advance; I eat and drink the right things at the right time. The rest you have to leave to luck!
Time has been transformed, and we have changed; it has advanced and set us in motion; it has unveiled its face, inspiring us with bewilderment and exhilaration.
Ben Thomas: I was planning on dying here. Larry: Then you'll have to pay in advance!
In the last fifty years science has advanced more than in the 2,000 previous years and given mankind greater powers over the forces of nature than the ancients ascribed to their gods.
Real progress in understanding nature is rarely incremental. All important advances are sudden intuitions, new principles, new ways of seeing.
Once you have power, you are inevitably surrounded by people who have their own agendas and will tell you whatever advances them.
It's an intolerable abuse of power to have employees who are supposed to be advancing the public interest actually working on political campaigns.
Science is the first expression of punk, because it doesn't advance without challenging authority. It doesn't make progress without tearing down what was there before and building upon the structure.
To me there has never been a higher source of earthly honor or distinction than that connected with advances in science.
There were certain questions about the foundations of morals that advances in science all threaten to make more complicated.
Space exploration is important research to our economic and national defense, and America's space program is a symbol of our success as a scientifically and technologically advanced nation.
Those who have won the ovarian lottery by being born in an advanced society to loving parents have a special obligation to help restore the American Dream.
'The End of America' details the 10 steps that would-be dictators always take in seeking to close an open society; it argued that the Bush administration had been advancing each one.
On the 28th the ship's company received two months pay in advance, and on the following morning we worked out to St. Helen's, where we were obliged to anchor.
Nearly all of the advances in structural and aesthetic innovation is coming from abroad.
The anvil of justice is planted firm, and fate who makes the sword does the forging in advance.
The McCarthy boys, at the proper moment, gave orders to fire upon the advancing enemy.
My thinking musically has always been more advanced - it is difficult to get it down onto paper sometimes, even now.
Do not yield to misfortunes, but advance more boldly to meet them, as your fortune permits you.
