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Source: The Way of the Superior Man: A Spiritual Guide to Mastering the Challenges of Women, Work, and Sexual Desire: Easyread Super Large 20pt Edition

“There are souls which, crab-like, crawl continually toward darkness, going back in life rather than advancing in it, using what experience they have to increase their deformity, growing worse without ceasing, and becoming steeped more and more thoroughly in an intensifying wickedness.”

Soul Darkness Growing Becoming Increase Wickedness Advancing Crabs Deformity

Book:Les Miserables Volume One

Source: Les Miserables Volume One

“Aren't you ashamed to be concerned so much about making all the money you can and advancing your reputation and prestige, while for truth and wisdom and the improvement of your souls you have no thought or car?”

Soul Car Concerned Improvement Reputation Your Soul Ashamed Advancing Prestige

Author:Socrates

“The line of traffic advancing towards the rising sun looked like a procession of the returning dead. Every one of them, solitaries in clean shirts, smoking, checking mirrors to see if their reflections were still there, wore dark glasses.”

Ifs Stills Lines Dark Sun Reflection Mirrors Clean Glasses Shirts Rising Smoking Traffic Advancing Procession Dark Glasses

Author:Iain Sinclair

“There is no single grand strategy. Just as the New Left abandoned an overarching program and became a series of like-minded groups advancing area by area, so it must counterattacked area by area.”

Left Groups Areas Program Strategy Series Abandoned Advancing

Author:Robert Bork

“Every proposal I'm making, every idea I'm advancing has a single, central purpose: to revive a failing economy and give working Americans the help and security they need.”

Needs Giving Ideas Helping Purpose Economy Failing Security Proposal Advancing Revive

Author:Dick Gephardt

“With great difficulty advancing by millimeters each year, I carve a road out of the rock. For millenniums my teeth have wasted and my nails broken to get there, to the other side, to the light and the open air. And now that my hands bleed and my teeth tremble, unsure in a cavity cracked by thirst and dust, I pause and contemplate my work. I have spent the second part of my life breaking the stones, drilling the walls, smashing the doors, removing the obstacles I placed between the light and myself in the first part of my life.”

Years Firsts Hands Light Sides Doors Air Rocks Broken Wall Stones Difficulty Obstacles Teeth Dust Contemplating Nails Thirst Pauses Cracked Advancing Unsure Smashing Drilling

Author:Octavio Paz

“I have seen great beauty of spirit in some who were great sufferers. I have seen men, for the most part, grow better not worse with advancing years, and I have seen the last illness produce treasures of fortitude and meekness from most unpromising subjects.”

Men Years Lasts Spirit Grows Subjects Produce Illness Treasure Fortitude Advancing Meekness Sufferers

Book:Joyful Christian

Source: Joyful Christian

“Since her retirement from teaching Miss Beryl's health had in many respects greatly improved, despite her advancing years. An eighth-grade classroom was an excellent place to snag whatever was in the air in the way of illness. Also depression, which, Miss Beryl believed, in conjunction with guilt, opened the door to illness. Miss Beryl didn't know any teachers who weren't habitually guilty and depressed-guilty they hadn't accomplished more with their students, depressed that very little more was possible.”

Knows Way Years Littles Teacher Doors Air Teaching Missing Students Guilt Illness Despite Guilty Excellent Accomplished Grades Retirement Classroom Advancing Conjunctions Eighth Grade

Book:Nobody's Fool

Source: Nobody's Fool

“Unfortunately our children today seem to spend less and less time with their overworked parents, and so they draw more information about the world from the images on movie and TV screens. The true power of the media is the ability to redefine reality, to alter our expectations about what constitutes normal life. TV and the movies have abused that power by advancing the notion that wholesome, ordinary happiness is impossible.”

“Black leadership has to recognize that principles more than speech, character more than a claim, is greater in advancing the cause of our liberation than what has transpired thus far.”

Character Causes Black Principles Greater Speech Claims Liberation Advancing

Author:Louis Farrakhan

“He had thrown himself away, he had lost interest in everything, and life, falling in with his feelings, had demanded nothing of him. He had lived as an outsider, an idler and onlooker, well liked in his young manhood, alone in his illness and advancing years. Seized with weariness, he sat down on the wall, and the river murmured darkly in his thoughts.”

Years Wells Feelings Young Fall Lost Interest Wall Rivers Illness Sat Thrown Outsiders Manhood Advancing Weariness Idlers

Author:Hermann Hesse

“We are only advancing in life, whose hearts are getting softer, our blood warmer, our brains quicker, and our spirits entering into living peace.”

Heart Character Spirit Brain Blood Entering Advancing

Author:John Ruskin

“I had never 'taken a cutting' before ... Do you realize that the whole thing is miraculous? It is exactly as though you were to cut off your wife's leg, stick it in the lawn, and be greeted on the following day by an entirely new woman, sprung from the leg, advancing across the lawn to meet you.”

Whole Realizing Taken Cutting Wife Garden Sticks Following Legs Miraculous Lawns Advancing Sprung

Author:Beverley Nichols

“... we will hope that future historians will explain the morbid symptoms of present-day society as the childhood ailments of an aspiring humanity, due entirely to the excessive speed at which civilization was advancing.”

Humanity Progress Childhood Civilization Dues Speed Historian Symptoms Advancing Present Day Morbid Ailments

Book:The World As I See It

Source: The World As I See It

“The White House, in advancing the agenda for a [school] "choice" plan, rests its faith on market mechanisms. What reason have the black and very poor to lend their credence to a market system that has proved so obdurate and so resistant to their pleas at every turn?”

Reason School Turns Choices House Black White Poor Education Plans Agendas White House Mechanism Advancing Credence School Choice

Author:Jonathan Kozol

“Racism is when you have laws set up, systematically put in a way to keep people from advancing, to stop the advancement of a people. Black people have never had the power to enforce racism, and so this is something that white America is going to have to work out themselves. If they decide they want to stop it, curtail it, or to do the right thing... then it will be done, but not until then.”

People Ifs Way Want Done America Law Black White Racism Work Out Right Thing Black People Advancement Advancing Black Racism White Racism

Author:Spike Lee

“You know, I believe that technology is the great leveler. Technology permits anybody to play. And in some ways, I think technology - it's not only a great tool for democratization, but it's a great tool for eliminating prejudice and advancing meritocracies.”

Thinking Knows Way Believe Play I Believe Technology Tools Prejudice Permit Advancing Eliminating Meritocracy Democratization

Author:Carly Fiorina

“While the men of the steel industry were going through blood and gas in defense of their rights and their homes and their families, elsewhere on the far-flung C.I.O. front the hosts of labor were advancing and intelligent and permanent progress was being made.”

Men Made Home Rights Progress Blood Fronts He Man Industry Labor Intelligent Defense Permanent Gas Host Elsewhere Steel Advancing Steel Industry

Author:John L. Lewis

“The political restructuring we pursue in China is aimed at advancing the self-improvement and development of the socialist political system. We will continue to expand people's democracy and build a socialist country under the rule of law in keeping with China's national conditions.”

People Self Country Law Political Democracy Conditions Development Self Improvement China Improvement Pursue Socialist Rule Of Law Political Systems Advancing Restructuring Socialist Countries

Author:Hu Jintao

“From Roger Bacon, the 13th century Franciscan who pioneered the scientific method, to George Lemaitre, the 20th century Belgian priest who first developed a mathematical foundation for the 'Big Bang,' people of faith have played a key role in advancing scientific understanding.”

People Firsts Bigs Understanding Roles Century Keys Method Foundation Mathematical Priests 20th Century Bangs Roger Advancing Scientific Method Belgians Franciscans

Author:Kenneth R. Miller

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