Advantage Quotes - Page 11

• 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

  Men, Civilization, Intellectual

  Thomas Sowell (1996). “Knowledge And Decisions”, p.7, Basic Books

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• When thinking about how to deploy kind of professional and social networking into your business, it's really not a question of if, it's a question of when. And the reason is, just think about the fact that those businesses that adopt new technologies to operate efficiently and use them to get a competitive edge are the businesses that in fact, you know, it becomes one more competitive advantage. Whether it's a fax machine or a mobile phone or a new way of doing financing or any of these things, you know, these are key things to do.

  Reid Hoffman

  Technology, Thinking, Phones

  Source: bigthink.com

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• The Russian myth that they broadcast to the world, and have their various surrogates in the West repeat, is that somehow the West took advantage of them, that we were mean to them. That writes out of history everything Strobe Talbott and Bill Clinton tried to do with Boris Yeltsin. Strobe Talbott leaned forward doing everything he could to help the Russians, and frankly, I have little patience for the notion that we gave them nothing but bad advice.

  Daniel Fried

  Writing, Mean, Advice

  Source: www.politico.com

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• Cyber security will be an issue that I will be absolutely focused on as president. Because whether it's Russia, or China, Iran or North Korea more and more countries are using hacking to steal our information, to use it to their advantage. And we can't let that go on.

  Hillary Clinton

  Country, Issues, Russia

  "Transcript: Clinton talks Orlando, Sanders, campaign with Telemundo". Interview With José Díaz-Balart, thehill.com. June 14, 2016.

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• Take advantage and control the moment. Don't let the moment take control of you.

  Michael Bivins

  Moments, Take Control

  Source: www.cyinterview.com

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• Always find different ways to accomplish the mission. Then run a counter-analysis and list the advantages and disadvantages. When you have done that, you are ready to make a decision.

  Colin Powell

  Running, Decision, Way

  Source: www.egonzehnder.com

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• If you're writing a book where you want to make a positive truth claim, then you should absolutely call it nonfiction or memoir. If you don't want to make that claim - if that's not what's important to you; if you're more interested in storytelling and interiority and interpersonal relationships than in objective, checkable facts about the world - then why wouldn't you call it a novel, and take advantage of what that gets you, of the extra freedom, of belonging to the tradition of the novel?

  Elif Batuman

  Book, Writing, Important

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• I'm as proud and assertive in my Quebec identity as any Quebecer. I believe it's to Quebec's advantage to be part of the Canadian federation. But I will be extremely strong and forceful in defending Quebec's interests within Canada.

  Philippe Couillard

  Strong, Believe, Identity

  Source: www.macleans.ca

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• We were just at the beginnings of a recovery [in 2010]. And the, you know, whoever is president at that point is gonna get hit and his party's gonna get hit. That then means that suddenly you've got a redistricting in which a lot of state legislatures are now Republican. They draw lines that give a huge structural advantage in subsequent elections.

  Barack Obama

  Party, Recovery, Mean

  Source: abcnews.go.com

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• I think with the advent of Reagan, and subsequently, both parties, there's been a strong move towards the advantage given to the richer people, in taxation and grants and supplements and things of that kind. Primarily exacerbated more recently by the Supreme Court's stupid ruling on Citizens United, and now there's a massive flood of money into the political system that I think has subverted the essence of a moral and ethical standard that used to permeate American democracy. Now it's not an admirable process. I think we've gone backwards.

  Jimmy Carter

  Strong, Stupid, Party

  Source: www.sfgate.com

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• I've been working in Hollywood for a long time now in many different aspects in front of the camera, behind the camera, and I've worked with top executives, presidents of networks. I've worked all around. I see energy and what's around these studios and a lot of these offices. You don't get the high positions in these companies if you don't take advantage of other people in some way. I've seen that around. I've seen that around the studios, whether it's producers or whoever. Egos are there. Greed.

  James Van Praagh

  Long, People, Office

  Source: www.cyinterview.com

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• That's the great advantage of being a foreigner: you're not paying your dues, but you are getting all the benefits.

  Pico Iyer

  Benefits, Foreigners, Dues

  Source: scottlondon.com

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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.

  Michael Eric Dyson

  Destiny, White, America

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• [Millennials ] are sharing cars. They're sharing apartments. I'm not sure my generation quite knows how to take advantage of it.

  Ken Moelis

  Car, Generations, Millennials

  Source: nordic.businessinsider.com

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• [Donald] Trump`s campaign, the Republican National Committee and state parties employ just 1,409 staffers in 16 states. So, nearly for the one, democratic advantage in human resources, the big question now is, how well does that turn out machinery work for democrats for Election Day?

  Chris Hayes

  Party, Doe, Campaigns

  Source: www.msnbc.com

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• But Catherine did not know her own advantages - did not know that a good-looking girl, with an affectionate heart and a very ignorant mind, cannot fail of attracting a clever young man, unless circumstances are particularly untoward.

  Jane Austen

  Girl, Clever, Heart

  Jane Austen (2009). “Northanger Abbey”, p.69, Wild Jot Press

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• A good character is something you must make for yourself. It cannot be inherited from parents. It cannot be created by having extraordinary advantages. It isn't a gift of birth, wealth, talent or station. It is the result of your own endeavor. It is the reward that comes from living good principles and manifesting a virtuous and honorable life.

  L. Tom Perry

  Good Life, Integrity, Character

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• You don't talk quite like a girl who has had no advantages.

  Thomas Hardy

  Girl

  Thomas Hardy (2016). “Jude the Obscure: Works of Hardy”, p.125, 谷月社

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• ...To the Dolphin alone, beyond all other, nature has granted what the best philosophers seek: friendship for no advantage

  Plutarch

  Dolphins, Philosopher, Granted

  Plutarch (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Plutarch (Illustrated)”, p.3559, Delphi Classics

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• The pounding music, the cheers, the admiration work their way into my blood, and I can’t suppress my excitement. Cinna has given me a great advantage. No one will forget me. Not my look, not my name. Katniss. The girl who was on fire.

  Suzanne Collins

  Girl, Cheer, Fire

  Suzanne Collins (2009). “The Hunger Games”, p.65, Scholastic Inc.

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• To build a better world we need to replace the patchwork of lucky breaks and arbitrary advantages today that determine success--the fortunate birth dates and the happy accidents of history--with a society that provides opportunities for all.

  Malcolm Gladwell

  Opportunity, Today, Happy Accidents

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• It is those who are successful, in other words, who are most likely to be given the kinds of special opportunities that lead to further success. It’s the rich who get the biggest tax breaks. It’s the best students who get the best teaching and most attention. And it’s the biggest nine- and ten-year-olds who get the most coaching and practice. Success is the result of what sociologists like to call “accumulative advantage.

  Malcolm Gladwell

  Teaching, Successful, Opportunity

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• My idea of Heaven has nothing to do with fluffy clouds or angels. In my Heaven there's butter pecan ice cream and swimming pools and baseball games. The Brooklyn Dodgers always win, and I have the best seat in the house, right behind the Dodger's dugout. That's the only advantage that I can see about being dead: You get the best seat in the house.

  Jennifer L. Holm

  Baseball, Angel, Swimming

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• Under our system every voter and officeholder is a man who has demonstrated through voluntary and difficult service that he places the welfare of the group ahead of personal advantage.

  Robert A. Heinlein

  Men, Groups, Voters

  Robert A. Heinlein (1987). “Starship Troopers”, p.142, Penguin

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• If I had my way books would not be written in English but in an exceedingly difficult secret language.... This plan would have the advantage of scaring off all amateur authors, retired politicians, country doctors...who would not have the patience to learn the secret language.

  Robertson Davies

  Country, Book, Doctors

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