Advantage Quotes
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One's own free unfettered choice, one's own caprice-however wild it may be, one's own fancy worked up at times to frenzy-is that very "most advantageous advantage" which we have overlooked, which comes under no classification and against which all systems and theories are continually being shattered to atoms... [an]will attain his object-that is, convince himself he is a man and not a piano-key!
Fyodor Dostoevsky
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As an amateur you have an advantage over photographers - you can do as you wish... This should make amateurs the happiest of photographers.
Andreas Feininger
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I'd rather do anything than make commercial art. I didn't go to school for art. Making art has certain advantages for me but they would never be in commercial direction.
Raymond Pettibon Black Flag
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The advantage of the cauliflower is that if all else fails, you can always cover it with melted cheese and eat it.
William E. Simon
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The guy with the competitive advantage is the one with the best technology.
Walter Wriston
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If [Donald] Trump throws 20 million off of health care, that's going to be - if he handles this badly - and it's very hard to handle it right, then that's a - a huge advantage in the mid-terms for us.
Van Jones
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Theoretical principals must sometimes give way for the sake of practical advantages.
William Pitt, 1st Earl of Chatham
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If your legs are strong it definitely gives you an advantage coming down hill. As far as specific workouts go, I get a kick out of sled pulls and driving the sled. I put a couple of 45 pound weights on it and just go until I can't feel my VMO muscles (Vastus Medialis Oblique.) That's the muscle right next to your knee, on the inside.
Brandon Spikes
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An advantage could consist not only in a single important advantage but also in a multitude of insignificant advantages.
Emanuel Lasker
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Really, all you need to become a good knitter are wool, needles, hands, and slightly below-average intelligence. Of course superior intelligence, such as yours and mine, is an advantage.
Elizabeth Zimmermann
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A grave blockhead should always go about with a lively one - they show one another off to the best advantage.
William Hazlitt
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When I'm ninety-five and it's 'This is Your Life' time, they'll still be referring to me as 'ex-Beatle'...it does have it's advantages. It's still the best way to get a good table at a resturant.
Ringo Starr The Beatles
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A deist is an atheist with an eye cocked for the off-chance of some advantage.
Honore de Balzac
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The corporations are powerful only because we have allowed them to be. In theory, it is we, not they, who mandate the state. But we have neglected our duty of citizenship, and they have taken advantage of our neglect to seize the reins of government.
George Monbiot
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We need to try to regain some home-court advantage.
Phil Jackson
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What frightens me and worries me is that these weeks are taken advantage of for the purpose of conflict rather than for consolidation.
Javier Solana
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Few would venture to deny the advantages of temperance in increasing the efficiency of a nation at war.
William Lyon Mackenzie
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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
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Men, however, shouldn't despair. They are excellent at identifying and imitating animal sounds, which would have been a significant advantage for the ancient hunter. Sadly, that's not quite as much use today.
Barbara Pease
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From the earliest times man has been engaged in a search for general rules whereby to turn the order of natural phenomena to his own advantage, and in the long search he has scraped together a great hoard of such maxims, some of them golden and some of them mere dross. The true or golden rules constitute the body of applied science which we call the arts; the false are magic.
James G. Frazer
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Too much success is not an advantage. Do not tinkle like jade Or clatter like stone chimes.
Lao Tzu
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The great advantage of living in a large family is that early lesson of life's essential unfairness.
Nancy Mitford
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There was at all events one advantage in the choice of this day to my birth; my birthday throughout the whole of my childhood was a day of public rejoicing.
Friedrich Nietzsche
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The one advantage of being dyslexic is that you are never tempted to look back and idealise your childhood.
Richard Rogers