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• We must be courteous to a man as we are to a picture, which we are willing to give the advantage of a good light.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Men, Light, Giving

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1872). “The Prose Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson: Representative men. English traits. Conduct of life”, p.418

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• The biggest advantage to believing in God is you don't have to understand anything, no physics, no biology. I wanted to understand.

  James D. Watson

  Believe, Religion, Atheism

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• Naturally, since [the Sumerians] didn't know what caused the flood anymore than we do, they blamed the gods. (That's the advantage of religion. You're never short an explanation for anything.)

  Isaac Asimov

  Fear, Atheism, Rage

  Isaac Asimov (1989). “The Tyrannosaurus Prescription and 100 Other Essays”

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• No ruler should put troops into the field merely to gratify his own spleen; no general should fight a battle simply out of pique. If it is to your advantage, make a forward move; if not, stay where you are. Anger may in time change to gladness; vexation may be succeeded by content. But a kingdom that has once been destroyed can never come again into being; nor can the dead ever be brought back to life.

  Sun Tzu

  War, Moving, Fighting

  Sun Tzu, General Press (2016). “The Art of War”, p.61, GENERAL PRESS

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• Making mistakes isn't enough to become great. You must also admit the mistake, and then learn how to turn that mistake into an advantage.

  Robert Kiyosaki

  Inspirational, Mistake, Inspire

  Twitter post from Jul 29, 2013

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• Just remember that if you're not working at your game to the utmost of your ability, there will be someone out there somewhere with equal ability who is. And one day you'll play each other, and he'll have the advantage.

  Ed Macauley

  Commitment, Games, Play

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• There are a number of attributes of species and populations that are not of any particular selective advantage to any single individual in a population but that are of great advantage to the population as a whole.

  Ernst Mayr

  Numbers, Diversity, Brotherhood

  Ernst Mayr (1997). “Evolution and the Diversity of Life: Selected Essays”, p.317, Harvard University Press

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• Too many people feel that where you start out dictates where you should end up. I was on welfare and just shy of 19 when my first daughter was born, but I was encouraged to take advantage of my ability and drive and remained in school.

  Gwen Moore

  Mother, Daughter, School

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• Americans need not fear the federal government because they enjoy the advantage of being armed, which you possess over the people of almost every other nation.

  James Madison

  Freedom, Gun, Government

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• Darwin was one of our finest specimens. He did superbly what human beings are designed to do: manipulate social information to personal advantage. The information in question was the prevailing account of how human beings, and all organisms, came to exist; Darwin reshaped it in a way that radically raised his social status. When he died in 1882, his greatness was acclaimed in newspapers around the world, and he was buried in Westminster Abbey, not far from the body of Isaac Newton. Alpha-male territory.

  Robert Wright

  Greatness, Territory, Information

  Robert Wright (2010). “The Moral Animal: Why We Are, the Way We Are: The New Science of Evolutionary Psychology”, p.377, Vintage

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• Did ever a man try heroism, magnanimity, truth, sincerity, and find that there was no advantage in them - that it was a vain endeavor?

  Henry David Thoreau

  Karma, Men, Trying

  Henry David Thoreau (2012). “The Portable Thoreau”, p.357, Penguin

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• Golf is a game, and talk and discussion is all to the interests of the game. Anything that keeps the game alive and prevents us being bored with it is an advantage. Anything that makes us think about it, talk about it, and dream about it is all to the good and prevents the game becoming dead.

  Alister MacKenzie

  Dream, Golf, Thinking

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• Great advantage is drawn from knowledge of your adversary, and when you know the measure of his intelligence and character, you can use it to play on his weakness.

  Frederick The Great

  Military, Character, Play

  Frederick the Great, Thomas R. Phillips (2012). “Instructions for His Generals”, p.67, Courier Corporation

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• The current situation in Iraq is ultimately a crisis of governance, which has allowed extremist groups to take advantage of disillusioned segments of the Iraqi population.

  Tim Kaine

  Military, Extremist Groups, Iraq

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• Effective leadership is the only competitive advantage that will endure. That's because leadership has two sides- what a person is character and what a person does- competence.

  Stephen Covey

  Leadership, Basketball, Character

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• When a man is in love or in debt, someone else has the advantage.

  Bill Ballance

  Love, Funny Relationship, Men

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• When environments change, they usually do so pretty rapidly, at rates with which adaptation by natural selection would be hard put to keep up. When such change occurs, the quality of your adaptation to your old habitat is irrelevant, and any competitive advantage you might have had may be eliminated at a stroke.

  Ian Tattersall

  Quality, Would Be, Habitat

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• Our great social and political advantage is opportunity.

  George William Curtis

  Opportunity, Political, Social

  George William Curtis (1856). “Works: Lotus-eating”, p.141

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• Opportunities ... fall in the way of every man who is resolved to take advantage of them.

  Samuel Smiles

  Fall, Opportunity, Men

  Samuel Smiles (1859). “Self-help; with illustrations of character and conduct”, p.11

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• The ability to learn faster than competitors may be the only sustainable competitive advantage.

  Arie de Geus

  Inspirational, Success, Sports

  "Planning as Learning". hbr.org. March 1988.

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• Lets take full advantage of this discovery

  William James

  Encouragement, Discovery

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• A macho attitude is totally to my advantage. Guys try to hit it 400 feet out of the park, but in softball you have to use a short, quick swing. Big, huge swings equal big, huge strikeouts.

  Jennie Finch

  Softball, Attitude, Swings

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• It is no small advantage to the holy life, to "begin the day with God." The saints are wont to leave their hearts with him over-night, that they may find them with Him in the morning. "When I awake, I am still with thee," saith holy David. Before earthly things break in upon us, and we receive impressions from abroad, it is good to season the heart with thoughts of God, and to consecrate the early and virgin operations of the mind.

  Thomas Case

  Christian, Morning, Heart

  "Puritan sermons, 1659-1689: being the morning exercises at Cripplegate, St. Giles in the Fields, and in Southwark".

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• Theoretical principals must sometimes give way for the sake of practical advantages.

  William Pitt, 1st Earl of Chatham

  Giving, Sake, Way

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• Pilate sentenced him due to fear, in accordance with the petition and intention of others. These people sentence him for their own advantage and without any fear, by dishonoring him through sin that they could abstain from, if they wanted. But they neither abstain from sin nor are they ashamed of their already committed sins, for they do not take into consideration their unworthiness of the kindness of the one whom they do not serve.

  Bridget of Sweden

  Kindness, People, Sin

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