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• Dogmatists have one advantage: they are poor listeners.

  Frans de Waal

  Poor, Listeners

  Frans de Waal (2013). “The Bonobo and the Atheist: In Search of Humanism Among the Primates”, p.70, W. W. Norton & Company

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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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• there was no greater natural advantage in life than having an enemy overestimate your faults, unless it was to have a friend underestimate your virtues.

  Mario Puzo

  Enemy, Faults, Underestimate

  Mario Puzo (2005). “The Godfather”, p.174, Penguin

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• Stability in government is essential to national character and to the advantages annexed to it, as well as to that repose and confidence in the minds of the people, which are among the chief blessings of civil society.

  James Madison

  Character, Patriotic, Blessing

  Alexander Hamilton, James Madison, Quentin P. Taylor, John Jay (1998). “The Essential Federalist: A New Reading of the Federalist Papers”, p.73, Rowman & Littlefield

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• True virtue never appears so lovely as when it is most oppressed; and the divine excellency of real Christianity is never exhibited with such advantage as when under the greatest trials; then it is that true faith appears much more precious than gold, and upon this account is "found to praise and honour and glory.

  Jonathan Edwards

  Real, Lovely, Gold

  Jonathan Edwards, Henry Rogers, Sereno Edwards Dwight (1839). “The Works of Jonathan Edwards”, p.236

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• It's no accident, I think, that tennis uses the language of life. Advantage, service, fault, break, love, the basic elements of tennis are those of everyday existence, because every match is a life in miniature. Even the structure of tennis, the way the pieces fit inside one another like Russian nesting dolls, mimics the structure of our days. Points become games become sets become tournaments, and it's all so tightly connected that any point can become the turning point. It reminds me of the way seconds become minutes become hours, and any hour can be our finest. Or darkest. It's our choice.

  Andre Agassi

  Thinking, Games, Choices

  FaceBook post by Andre Agassi from Jan 14, 2015

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• He was welcome everywhere he went, and was well-aware of his inability to tolerate solitude. He felt no inclination to be alone and avoided it as far as possible; he didn't really want to become any better acquainted with himself. He knew that if he wanted to show his talents to best advantage, he needed to strike sparks off other people to fan the flames of warmth and exuberance in his heart. On his own he was frosty, no use to himself at all, like a match left lying in its box.

  Stefan Zweig

  Lying, Heart, Flames

  Stefan Zweig (2008). “Burning Secret”, p.7, Pushkin Press

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• There is an advantage to be found in most everything that happens to you, even if it is not immediately apparent.

  Jennifer Donnelly

  Found, Happens, Ifs

  Jennifer Donnelly (2015). “A Gathering Light”, p.145, Bloomsbury Publishing

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• Being in a hurry. Getting to the next thing without fully entering the thing in front of me. I cannot think of a single advantage I've ever gained from being in a hurry. But a thousand broken and missed things, tens of thousands, lie in the wake of all the rushing.... Through all that haste I thought I was making up time. It turns out I was throwing it away.

  Ann Voskamp

  Lying, Thinking, Rushing

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• All great events hang by a single thread. The clever man takes advantage of everything, neglects nothing that may give him some added opportunity; the less clever man, by neglecting one thing, sometimes misses everything.

  Napoleon Bonaparte

  Clever, Opportunity, Men

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• Don't you ever get the feeling that all your life is going by and you're not taking advantage of it? Do you realize you've lived nearly half the time you have to live already?

  Ernest Hemingway

  Live Life To The Fullest, Feelings, Half

  Ernest Hemingway (2016). “The Sun Also Rises”, p.7, Hamilton Books

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• There are definite advantages to single beds." He sat up abruptly and arranged her legs around his waist. "Makes cuddling mandatory.

  Cindy Gerard

  Cuddling, Legs, Bed

  Cindy Gerard (2007). “To the Brink”, p.329, Macmillan

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• The old adage, 'If it sounds too good to be true, it probably is' isn't always correct. In fact, the suspicion, cynicism, and doubt that are inherent in this belief can and does keep people from taking advantage of excellent opportunities.

  Richard Carlson

  Opportunity, People, Doubt

  Richard Carlson (1998). “Don't Worry, Make Money: Spiritual and Practical Ways to Create Abundance and More Fun in Your Life”, Hyperion Books

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