Advantage Quotes
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Every little advantage is of great moment when men have to come to blows.
Niccolò di Bernardo dei Machiavelli
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He that has most experience [is] so much more prudent than he that is new, as not to be equalled by any advantage of natural and extemporary wit- though many young men think the contrary.
Thomas Hobbes
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One unforeseen advantage of having a child was that it gave me the excuse to talk to myself to my heart's content and pretend it was for my daughters benefit.
Catherine Sanderson
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No man can live happily who regards himself alone, who turns everything to his own advantage. Thou must live for another, if thou wishest to live for thyself.
Seneca the Younger
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The purpose of the present study is not as it is in other inquiries, the attainment of knowledge, we are not conducting this inquiry in order to know what virtue is, but in order to become good, else there would be no advantage in studying it. For that reason, it becomes necessary to examine the problem of our actions and to ask how they are to be performed. For as we have said, the actions determine what kind of characteristics are developed.
Aristotle
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I've always been big. I'm never going to be an underwear model. But I am who I am, and that has its advantages and disadvantages.
CC Sabathia
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It does not pay to be friendly with officers, they take advantage of you.
William Overgard
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What is a labour victory? I maintain that it is a twofold thing. Workers must gain economic advantage, but they must also gain revolutionary spirit, in order to achieve a complete victory. For workers to gain a few cents more a day, a few minutes less a day, and go back to work with the same psychology, the same attitude toward society is to achieve a temporary gain and not a lasting victory.
Elizabeth Gurley Flynn
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Animals, we have been told, are taught by their organs. Yes, I would add, and so are men, but men have this further advantage that they can also teach their organs in return.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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Bobby Fischer started off each game with a great advantage: after the opening he had used less time than his opponent and thus had more time available later on. The major reason why he never had serious time pressure was that his rapid opening play simply left sufficient time for the middlegame.
Edmar Mednis
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When we wish to correct with advantage, and to show another that he errs, we must notice from what side he views the matter, for on that side it is usually true.
Blaise Pascal
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“I try to find out what the guy's strengths and weaknesses are. Like in boxing, I'd be a counter-puncher. Whatever he does well, I try to take advantage of what he doesn't do well.
Antonio Gates
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Caring, it turns out, is a competitive advantage, and one that takes effort, not money.
Seth Godin
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Sometimes in life, you're not always given a second chance, but if you do, take advantage of it, and go out with a bang!
Aquaria
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Any MC who chooses to go up against me is getting taken advantage of like Monica Lewinski
Marshall Bruce Mathers III
Bad Meets Evil'
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...To the Dolphin alone, beyond all other, nature has granted what the best philosophers seek: friendship for no advantage.
Plutarch
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I think the advantage we had with "MacGruber" is the speed we had to put it together. We had a such a short period to write the movie and such a post-[production] period, it was almost like the way that the show worked, where everything is happening so fast you have to go with your gut.
Will Forte
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Her form, though not so correct as her sister's, in having the advantage of height, was more striking; and her face was so lovely, that when in the common cant of praise she was called a beautiful girl, truth was less violently outraged than usually happens.
Jane Austen
