Advantage Quotes
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Over the years, I have become convinced that Hellenism as a culture represents not a static condition of uniform sublimity mysteriously achieved and maintained as an effect of some racial advantage. Rather it should be understood as an evolving process, governed by a dynamic of change, as both language and thought underwent transformational alteration caused by a transition from orality to literacy. The instrument of change is discerned to be the invention of the Greek alphabet, at a quite late stage in the history of developing cultures.
Eric A. Havelock
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Simply put, we have to take charge and take responsibility and support what's in the marketplace. Because, quiet as it's kept, the powers that be are cognizant of what our spending dollar means. And it is kept a little quiet, and we have to become aware of what we mean in the marketplace and take advantage of it.
Richard Roundtree
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There were very few women comics when I started out doing stand-up. But I always saw that as a great advantage.
Carol Leifer
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Higher education is an advantage, no longer a guarantee.
Ziad K. Abdelnour
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I feel like I have a new life and I'm going to take full advantage of it.
William Green
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Another thing I like about German cities - and it's an advantage which they haven't sufficiently exploited yet - is that they are pioneers when it comes to environmental technologies. And green solutions are becoming more and more important.
Charles Landry
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But poets were not considered dangerous and they were advised to exercise self-censorship. At most, poets were requested not to write at all. I took advantage of this negative liberty.
Eugenio Montale
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Children who use the Internet are much better informed than when I was young. Use this to your advantage.
Miep Gies
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In the event of atomic war there is a tremendous biological advantage in the so-called undeveloped areas that have a high birth rate and high death rate because, man, they can plow under those mutations.
William S. Burroughs
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What then is the intellectual advantage of civilization over primitive savagery? It is not necessarily that each civilized man has more knowledge but that he requires far less.
Thomas Sowell
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I believe that for his escape he took advantage of the migration of a flock of wild birds.
Antoine de Saint-Exupery
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When survival was in question, you fought hard and you seized every advantage, because your enemy was sure to do the same.
Brandon Mull
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The greatest advantage in gambling lies in not playing at all.
Gerolamo Cardano
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The actor has the advantage - or the liability - of knowing, "It's going to be my face up there on the frickin' screen, so I better keep my wits about me. Nobody's going to care that I was bad because I was not happy. They're only going to know I'm bad."
William H. Macy
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The ability to learn faster than competitors may be the only sustainable competitive advantage.
Arie de Geus
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I had no idea what I wanted to do with my life, so nothing of what I was studying seemed to fit. I know now that I should have taken advantage of that time and that I missed a great deal of the opportunity to educate myself.
Harrison Ford
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I've always been conscious not to take advantage of my sexual orientation because I don't think it's fair, and it shouldn't matter.
Syd
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I think in just about any business the low cost competitor is always going to have an advantage.
Gerard Arpey
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Another huge advantage that humans have is good old common sense.
Andrew McAfee
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The company that consistently makes and implements decisions rapidly gains a tremendous, often decisive, competitive advantage.
Steve Blank
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Her mother had once told her that whoever cares the least has the greatest advantage.
Alix Ohlin
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It's them as take advantage that get advantage I' this world, I think: folks have to wait long enough afore it's brought to 'em.
George Eliot
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It is important to understand that there are two separate battles taking place in Iraq: there is the political rift between the Sunnis, Shia and the Kurds and there is a foreign extremist group - ISIS - trying to take advantage of the political environment through violence. If the Iraqis can resolve their political differences, it will be far more difficult for ISIS to thrive. Moving forward, we should continue to evaluate additional steps to help combat ISIS as we see what the Iraqis are willing to do politically, but we must also firmly guard against mission creep.
David Adam Smith
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I tried to take every little thing and use it as an advantage. People were asking me how it felt to be in the UFC, and I wasn’t thinking about that. All that mattered was Alessio Sakara. I had to win that fight. Even now I still haven’t got time to sit back. Again, this is a must win, must dominate, fight for me in my eyes, and I won’t be happy unless that’s the way it goes.
Chris Weidman