Advantage Quotes
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Some white people are so accustomed to operating at a competitive advantage that when the playing field is level, they feel handicapped.
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There the poor have another advantage ... for they may defy not only death, but every loss by sea or land, for they have nothing to lose.
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If you don't fight the system, you can either take advantage of the system or let the system take advantage of you.
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There is a consciousness as an agent of one's own destiny as a person in America, there are things that can be done, there are advantages and benefits which exist that are directly related to - and even rest upon - white privilege.
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He who esteems trifles for themselves is a trifler; he who esteems them for the conclusions to be drawn from them, or the advantage to which they can be put, is a philosopher.
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Do you talk by rule, then, while you are dancing?" Sometimes. One must speak a little, you know. It would look odd to be entirely silent for half an hour together, and yet for the advantage of some, conversation ought to be so arranged as that they may have the trouble of saying as little as possible.
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The two big advantages I had at birth were to have been born wise and to have been born in poverty.
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If you let somebody take advantage of you, it gets worse, not better.
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Reviewing has one advantage over suicide: in suicide you take it out on yourself; in reviewing you take it out on other people.
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It is often asserted that woman owes all the advantages of the position she occupies to-day to Christianity, but the facts of history show that the Christian Church has done nothing specifically for woman's elevation. In the general march of civilization, she has necessarily reaped the advantage of man's higher development, but we must not claim for Christianity all that has been achieved by science, discovery and invention.
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Children whose parents are reliable sources of comfort and strength have a lifetime advantage—a kind of buffer against the worst that fate can hand them.
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The more you see, the more you're going to learn. Just got to take advantage of the opportunity and get ready to play ball.
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You have an advantage in life when you start where others talk first.
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It is the people who are 'far out' who are gaining advantage in the evolutionary jostling for efficacious strategies.
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Not suing others does not mean that others won't sue you.If people are desperate enough to think that they can gain some kind of financial advantage, they'll sue.
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In these days the young folks is all copy-cats, 'fraid to death they won't be all just alike; as for the old folks, they pray for the advantage o' bein' a little different.
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Advantage lies in a capacity to predict the future before your rivals can.
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All religions proclaim the advantages of peace, loving one another, and "doing to others what we would like them to do to us."
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True revolution comes not when we learn to ignore our fat and pretend we're no different, but when we learn to use it to our advantage, when we learn to deconstruct all the myths that propagate fat-hate.
