Advantage Quotes - Page 17

• Money. A blessing that is of no advantage to us excepting when we part with it.

  Ambrose Bierce

  Money, Blessing, Wealth

  Ambrose Bierce (2016). “The Devil's Dictionary: The Devil World”, p.146, 谷月社

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• Man has always sacrificed truth to his vanity, comfort and advantage. He lives not by truth but by make-believe.

  W. Somerset Maugham

  Life, Believe, Men

  W. Somerset Maugham (2010). “The Summing Up”, p.291, Random House

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• The fool has one great advantage over a man of sense; he is always satisfied with himself.

  Napoleon Bonaparte

  Men, Stupidity, Fool

  Napoleon Bonaparte “Napoleon in his own words from the French of Jules Bertaut”, Рипол Классик

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• The sage has one advantage: he is immortal. If this is not his century, many others will be.

  Baltasar Gracian

  Wisdom, Intelligence, Sage

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• There are no events so disastrous that adroit men do not draw some advantage from them, nor any so fortunate that the imprudent cannot turn to their own prejudice.

  Francois de La Rochefoucauld

  Success, Men, Events

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• The one advantage of playing with fire...is
  that no one ever gets singed. It is the people who don't know how to play with it who get burned up.

  Oscar Wilde

  Fun, Fire, Play

  Oscar Wilde, Jules Barbey d'Aurevilly, Lady Wilde, Henry Zick (1909). “The Complete Writings of Oscar Wilde: What never dies”

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• There is advantage in the wisdom won from pain.

  Aeschylus

  Pain, Rowing

  Aeschylus (1954). “Aeschylus: Oresteia; Agamemnon, The libation bearers, The Eumenides, translated and with an introd. by R. Lattimore”

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• Take advantage of it now, while you are young, and suffer all you can, because these things don't last your whole life.

  Gabriel Garcia Marquez

  Suffering, Lasts, Cholera

  FaceBook post by Gabriel García Márquez from Aug 03, 2016

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• She loved the sea for its storms alone, cared for vegetation only when it grew here and there among ruins. She had to extract a kind of personal advantage from things and she rejected as useless everything that promised no immediate gratification — for her temperament was more sentimental than artistic, and what she was looking for was emotions, not scenery.

  Gustave Flaubert

  Sea, Storm, Here And There

  Gustave Flaubert (1993). “Madame Bovary: Patterns of Provincial Life”, Everyman's Library

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• One of the many advantages of having a boyfriend who is half French is that his culinary repertoire extends beyond mac and cheese. Plus, there’s the kissing.

  Meg Cabot

  Kissing, Half, Cheese

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• The major advantage of domestic travel is that, with a few exceptions such as Miami, most domestic locations are conveniently situated right here in the United States.

  Dave Barry

  Travel, Fun, United States

  Dave Barry (2010). “Dave Barry's Only Travel Guide You'll Ever Need”, p.14, Ballantine Books

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• Enterprise is first creativity. You need creativity to see what's out there and shape it to your advantage. You need creativity to look at the world a little differently. You need creativity to take a different approach, to be different.

  Jim Rohn

  Creativity, Different, Needs

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• I realize now that there's a strength in dunking that I can use to my advantage. When you dunk all the time it isn't as demoralizing to the opponent, but when you dunk at a key moment in the game you can use it to change the momentum.

  Kobe Bryant

  Basketball, Keys, Games

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• He's very knowledgeable. That's the one advantage that I see in Kobe Bryant's career compared to Michael Jordan. Ten years into Kobe Bryant's career, we're seeing a very polished 27-year-old player who's probably got another seven or eight great years ahead of him.

  Scottie Pippen

  Basketball, Player, Eight

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• Homosexuality is assuredly no advantage, but it is nothing to be ashamed of, no vice, no degradation, it cannot be classified as an illness.

  Sigmund Freud

  Vices, Degradation, Illness

  Letter to an American mother, 9 Apr. 1935

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• The man who doesn't read good books has no advantage over the man who can't read them. It is said that leaders are readers. However if they read trashy magazines for the majority of their time and they never run with the information that they glean from resourceful books, then they may as well have not taken any time to read at all. It is easier to stay out than get out.

  Mark Twain

  Running, Inspirational Life, Taken

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• everyone - you included - is on her best behavior in the beginning of a relationship. Sometimes little quirks turn out to be big ones, and the big advantage that women have - sometimes the only advantage - is their intuition.

  Nicholas Sparks

  Intuition, Littles, Sometimes

  FaceBook post by Nicholas Sparks from Jul 28, 2012

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• Excuse me, but aren't boys forbidden on this floor?' Macey said on our way to the suite. 'That's the advantage of being the only boy,' he (Zach) said. 'No one actually comes right out and makes rules like that.

  Ally Carter

  Boys, Way, Excuse

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• Life was too short and ended too suddenly. If you didn't take advantage of what you had today, tomorrow it might be ripped from you.

  Ilona Andrews

  Might, Today, Tomorrow

  Ilona Andrews (2010). “Bayou Moon”, p.166, Penguin

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• I could have just said I'm good at my job, but I didn't. Didn't want the police thinking I was holding out information when I wasn't. "I've got one advantage over a normal homicide detective, I expect it to be a monster. No one ever calls me in if it's just a stabbing, or a hit-and-run. I don't spend a lot of time trying to come up with nice, normal explanations. It means I get to ignore a lot of theories.

  Laurell K. Hamilton

  Running, Jobs, Nice

  Laurell K. Hamilton (2011). “Anita Blake, Vampire Hunter Collection 1-5”, p.1693, Penguin

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• No matter what advantages you are born with-- money, intelligence, an appealing personality, a sunny outlook, or good social connections-- none of these provides a magic key to an easy existence. Somehow life manages to bring difficult problems, the causes of untold suffering and struggle. How you meet your challenges makes all the difference between the promise of success and the specter of failure.

  Deepak Chopra

  Spiritual, Struggle, Keys

  Deepak Chopra (2012). “Spiritual Solutions: Answers to Life's Greatest Challenges”, p.3, Harmony

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• It's to the Capitol's advantage to have us divided among ourselves. Another tool to cause misery in our district. A way to plant hatred between the starving workers [of the Seam] and those who can generally count on supper and thereby ensure we will never trust one another.

  Suzanne Collins

  Hatred, Causes, Tools

  Suzanne Collins (2009). “The Hunger Games”, p.16, Scholastic Inc.

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• If I lived by some code, my actions would become predictable. The enemy would take advantage of this and I’d be killed. An honorable death doesn’t exist. Death is death. But it’s funny that survival and revenge require the same thing: no honor codes, no supposed higher principles to aspire to, no mercy

  Frank Beddor

  Revenge, Enemy, Survival

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• The best protection against rape, stalking, and domestic violence is to raise men who both understand that women are different, and would never dare take advantage of this difference.

  Wendy Shalit

  Men, Differences, Domestic Violence

  Wendy Shalit (2000). “A Return to Modesty: Discovering the Lost Virtue”, p.44, Simon and Schuster

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• Every subject's duty is the King's; but every subject's soul is his own. Therefore, should every soldier in the wars do as every sick man in his bed, wash every mote out of his conscience; and dying so, death is to him advantage; or not dying, the time was blessedly lost wherein such preparation was gained; and in him that escapes, it were no sin to think that, making God so free an offer, He let him outlive the day to see His greatness and to teach others how they should prepare.

  William Shakespeare

  Kings, War, Greatness

  William Shakespeare (2012). “The Complete Works of William Shakespeare”, p.2393, Graphic Arts Books

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