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• The fact is that everything I have in my pockets is carefully chosen so I’ll always be prepared. Everything is there so I can be at an advantage at the moment of truth. Actually, that’s not accurate. Everything’s there so I won’t be at a disadvantage at the moment of truth.

  Etgar Keret

  Pockets, Facts, Moments

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• The people who stand before kings may look like they did it all by themselves. But in fact they are invariably the beneficiaries of hidden advantages and extraordinary opportunities and cultural legacies that allow them to learn and work hard and make sense of the world in ways others cannot. It makes a difference where and when we grew up.

  Malcolm Gladwell

  Kings, Hard Work, Opportunity

  "Outliers: The Story of Success". Book by Malcolm Gladwell, November 18, 2008.

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• One of the major keys to success is to keep moving forward on the journey, making the best of the detours and interruptions, turning adversity into advantage.

  John C. Maxwell

  Moving, Adversity, Journey

  John C. Maxwell (1997). “Your Roadmap for Success”

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• To find gratitude and generosity when you could reasonably find hurt and resentment will surprise you. It will be so surprising because you will see so much of the opposite: people who have much more than others yet who react with anger when one advantage is lost or with resentment when an added gift is denied.

  Henry B. Eyring

  Gratitude, Hurt, Opposites

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• I guess short films have a bright future... The advantage is budget.

  Anurag Kashyap

  Film, Bright Future, Future Is Bright

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• The competitive advantage professional journalism enjoys over the free is just that: professional journalists, whose paid positions give them the time and resources they need to commit more fully to the task. If we can't do better, so be it.

  Douglas Rushkoff

  Giving, Tasks, Needs

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• The sandwich he made was bologna and cheese, his favorite. All the sandwiches he made were his favorites; that was one of the advantages of being single.

  Stephen King

  Being Single, Sandwiches, Bologna

  Stephen King (2008). “'Salem's Lot”, p.210, Anchor

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• Animals have these advantages over man: they never hear the clock strike, they die without any idea of death, they have no theologians to instruct them, their last moments are not disturbed by unwelcome and unpleasant ceremonies, their funerals cost them nothing, and no one starts lawsuits over their wills.

  Voltaire

  Nature, Animal, Men

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• Thus I assume that to each according to his threat advantage is not a conception of justice.

  John Rawls

  Justice, Assuming, Threat

  John Rawls (2009). “A Theory of Justice”, p.116, Harvard University Press

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• Those moralists, on the other hand, who, following in the footsteps of Socrates, offer the individual a morality of self-control and temperance as a means to his own advantage, as his personal key to happiness, are the exceptions.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Mean, Keys, Self

  Friedrich Nietzsche (2006). “Nietzsche: 'On the Genealogy of Morality' and Other Writings Student Edition”, p.134, Cambridge University Press

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• As he took her hand she saw him look her over from head to foot, a gesture she recognized and that made her feel at home, but gave her always a faint feeling of superiority to whoever made it. If her person was property she could exercise whatever advantage was inherent in its ownership.

  F. Scott Fitzgerald

  Home, Exercise, Hands

  F. Scott Fitzgerald (2013). “Three Novels: Tender is the Night; The Beautiful and Damned; Thi”, p.35, Simon and Schuster

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• Never esteem anything as of advantage to you that will make you break your word or lose your self-respect.

  Marcus Aurelius

  Loyalty, Respect, Honesty

  "Meditations" by Marcus Aurelius, Book III, (7), (c. 161 - 180 AD).

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• It’s a great advantage not to drink among hard drinking people.

  F. Scott Fitzgerald

  Inspirational, Drinking, Recovery

  F. Scott Fitzgerald (2007). “The Great Gatsby”, p.104, Broadview Press

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• Whenever you feel like criticizing any one... just remember that all the people in this world haven't had the advantages that you've had.

  F. Scott Fitzgerald

  Thankful, Kindness, Attitude

  "The Great Gatsby". Book by F. Scott Fitzgerald, 1925.

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• People who have no weaknesses are terrible; there is no way of taking advantage of them.

  Anatole France

  People, Weakness, Way

  Anatole France (2016). “The Crime of Sylvestre Bonnard”, p.115, Anatole France

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• Look at children. Of course they may quarrel, but generally speaking they do not harbor ill feelings as much or as long as adults do. Most adults have the advantage of education over children, but what is the use of an education if they show a big smile while hiding negative feelings deep inside? Children don�t usually act in such a manner. If they feel angry with someone, they express it, and then it is finished. They can still play with that person the following day.

  Dalai Lama

  Life, Spiritual, Children

  Dalai Lama, Anne Benson, Fabien Ouaki (2016). “Imagine All the People: A Conversation with the Dalai Lama on Money, Politics, and Life As It Could Be”, p.34, Simon and Schuster

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• I do not know much. But there are certain advantages in not knowing. Like virgin territory, the mind is free of preconceptions. Everything I do not know forms the greater part of me: This is my largesse. And with this I understand everything. The things I do not know constitute my truth.

  Clarice Lispector

  Knowing, Mind, Territory

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• Oh, I don't know. I prefer to think that when they're at home, the Silent Brothers are much like us. Playing practical jokes in the Silent City, making toasted cheese-" "I hope they play charades," said Tessa Dryly. "It would seem to take advantage of their natural talents.

  Cassandra Clare

  Brother, Home, Thinking

  Cassandra Clare (2013). “The Infernal Devices: Clockwork Angel; Clockwork Prince; Clockwork Princess”, p.505, Simon and Schuster

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• Lucy was suffering from the most grievous wrong which this world has yet discovered: diplomatic advantage had been taken of her sincerity, of her craving for sympathy and love. Such a wrong is not easily forgotten. Never again did she expose herself without due consideration and precaution against rebuff. And such a wrong may react disastrously upon the soul.

  E. M. Forster

  Love, Taken, Soul

  E.M. Forster (2012). “A Room with a View”, p.63, Courier Corporation

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• And I could weep at how mean people are and how they betray their fellow creatures, perhaps for the sake of personal advantage. It is enough to make a person lose heart sometimes. I often wish I lived on a Robinson Crusoe island.

  Sophie Scholl

  Mean, Heart, Islands

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• All the advantages of Christianity and alcohol; none of their defects.

  Aldous Huxley

  Brave New World, Alcohol, Soma

  Aldous Huxley (1950). “Brave New World”

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• Above all, he liked it that everything was one's own fault. There was only oneself to praise or blame. Luck was a servant and not a master. Luck had to be accepted with a shrug or taken advantage of up to the hilt. But it had to be understood and recognized for what it was and not confused with a faulty appreciation of the odds, for, at gambling, the deadly sin is to mistake bad play for bad luck. And luck in all its moods had to be loved and not feared

  Ian Fleming

  Love, Appreciation, Mistake

  Ian Fleming (1953). “Casino Royale”

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• There are certain advantages in being cursed by all and sundry ... especially, it dispenses you with having to be nice to anybody ... there's nothing more emollient, stultifying, emasculating than wanting to be liked ... "not nice!" ... that does it, you're free!.

  Louis-Ferdinand Celine

  Nice, Doe, Certain

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• I see no advantage in these new clocks. They run no faster than the ones made 100 years ago.

  Henry Ford

  Running, Years, Innovation

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• It's a great advantage not to drink among hard-drinking people. You can hold your tongue, and, moreover, you can time any little irregularity of your own so that everybody else is so blind that they don't see or care.

  F. Scott Fitzgerald

  Drinking, People, Care

  F. Scott Fitzgerald (2013). “The Great Gatsby”, p.60, Atlântico Press

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