Advantage Quotes
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We need to try to regain some home-court advantage.
Phil Jackson -
Christianity possesses the great advantage over Judaism of being represented as coming from the mouth of the first Teacher not as a statutory but as a moral religion, and as thus entering into the closest relation with reason so that, through reason, it was able of itself, without historical learning, to be spread at all times and among all peoples with the greatest trustworthiness.
Immanuel Kant
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Shame brings no advantage in misfortunes, for silence (of the accused) is the ally of the speaker.
Sophocles -
There would be no advantage to be gained by sowing a field of wheat if the harvest did not return more than was sown.
Napoleon Hill -
When success comes, people can try to trick you or take advantage of you.
Christina Aguilera -
The other advantage England have got when Phil Tufnell is bowling is that he isn't fielding
Ian Chappell -
He took advantage of his opportunities. He just got himself involved. He played a great game.
Allen Iverson -
Men soon get tired of shedding their blood for the advantage of a few individuals, who think they amply reward the soldiers perils with the treasures they amass.
Napoleon Bonaparte
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The great advantage in noble parentage is that enables one to endure poverty more easily.
Friedrich Nietzsche -
If Germany is to become a colonizing power, all I say is, God speed her! She becomes our ally and partner in the execution of the great purposes of Providence for the advantage of mankind.
William E. Gladstone -
Nowadays, for the sake of the advantage which is to be gained from the public revenues and from office, men want to be always in office.
Aristotle -
A grave blockhead should always go about with a lively one - they show one another off to the best advantage.
William Hazlitt -
Today the crime novelist has one advantage denied to writers of 'straight' or 'literary' novels. Unlike them he can range over all levels of society, for crime can easily breach the barriers that exist in our stratified society. Because of these barriers the modern literary novel, unlike its 19th-century predecessors, is often confined to the horizontal, dealing only with one class. But crime runs through society from top to bottom, and so the crime novelist can present a fuller picture of the way we live now.
Allan Massie -
The great advantage the telephone possesses over every other form of electrical apparatus consists in the fact that it requires no skill to operate the instrument.
Alexander Graham Bell
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No matter how skillful you are, you can't invent a product advantage that doesn't exist. And if you do, and it's just a gimmick, it's going to fall apart anyway.
William Bernbach -
The one advantage of being dyslexic is that you are never tempted to look back and idealise your childhood.
Richard Rogers -
There is an advantage to be found in most everything that happens to you, even if it is not immediately apparent.
Jennifer Donnelly -
The ideal hole is surely one that affords the greatest pleasure to the greatest number, gives the fullest advantage for accurate play, stimulates players to improve their game, and never becomes monotonous.
Alastair Mackenzie -
Woman, I hold, is the personification of self-sacrifice, but unfortunately today she does not realise what a tremendous advantage she has over man.
Mahatma Gandhi -
Neither man nor woman can be worth anything until they have discovered that they are fools. The sooner the discovery is made the better, as there is more time and power for taking advantage of it.
William Lamb, 2nd Viscount Melbourne
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Celebrity is the advantage of being known to people who we don't know, and who don't know us.
Sébastien-Roch Nicolas -
We've been in that situation where you're just so happy to be doing what you love to do that you get taken advantage of.
Justin Timberlake NSYNC -
On the other hand, there is a certain advantage in traveling with someone who has a reputation for shooting rather than being shot: as Keram said, in a self-satisfied way, they might kill me, but they would know that, if I was with him, there would be unpleasantness afterwards.
Freya Stark -
Envy is the most stupid of vices, for there is no single advantage to be gained from it.
Honore de Balzac