Advantage Quotes - Page 28

• Your friends today attach themselves not to you but to your purse or to some advantage they can gain through your father's kindness. When your purse is empty or when your father is no longer in power, they bid you good-bye.

  Sathya Sai Baba

  Kindness, Father, Bye

  Sathya Sai Baba (1988). “Education in human values”

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• There seems to be one quality of mind which seems to be of special and extreme advantage in leading him to make discoveries. It was the power of never letting exceptions go unnoticed.

  Francis Darwin

  Letting Go, Discovery, Mind

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• Probably any successful career has X number of breaks in it, and maybe the difference between successful people and those who aren't super achievers is taking advantage of those breaks.

  Joan Ganz Cooney

  Successful, Careers, Differences

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• The blessings of fortune are the lowest; the next are the bodily advantages of strength and health; but the superlative blessings, in fine, are those of the mind.

  Roger L'Estrange

  Blessing, Mind, Next

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• The advantages of having decisions made by groups are often lost because of powerful psychological pressures that arise when the members work closely together, share the same set of values and, above all, face a crisis situation that puts everyone under intense stress

  Irving Janis

  Powerful, Stress, Responsibility

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• If you punish a child for being naughty, and reward him for being good, he will do right merely for the sake of the reward; and when he goes out into the world and finds that goodness is not always rewarded, nor wickedness always punished, he will grow into a man who only thinks about how he may get on in the world, and does right or wrong according as he finds advantage to himself.

  Immanuel Kant

  Children, Men, Naughty

  Immanuel Kant, Annette Churton (2003). “On Education”, p.84, Courier Corporation

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• A novelist can shift view-point if it comes off. ... Indeed, this power to expand and contract perception (of which the shifting view-point is a symptom), this right to intermittent knowledge - I find one of the great advantages of the novel-form ... this intermittence lends in the long run variety and colour to the experiences we receive.

  E. M. Forster

  Running, Views, Long

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• I can't see any advantage to fame. I'm happy with the life I have now. I've got the same two friends I've had since I was 12, and I can't see that changing.

  Robert Pattinson

  Two Friends, Fame, I Can

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• A small child from a developing country has the advantage, from a very early age, of having access to toys which structure his mind, which constitute a sure advantage over the little African child who has never even held a modern toy.

  Abdoulaye Wade

  Country, Children, Mind

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• A new educational system in which all children born shall have the same advantage of physical, industrial, mental and moral culture, and thus be equally prepared at maturity to enter upon active, responsible and useful lives. . . . In so doing, it strikes a fatal blow at . . . the most demoralizing of all monopolies. . . educational superiority.

  Victoria Woodhull

  Children, Educational, Responsibility

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• Shake off those gloomy feelings. Drive them away. Fix your mind and pleasures upon what is before you.All is bright if you will think it so. All is happy if you will make it so. Do not dream. It is too ideal, too imaginary. Dreaming by day, I mean. Live in the world you inhabit. Look upon things as they are. Take them as you find them. Make the best of them. Turn them to your advantage.

  Robert E. Lee

  Dream, Mean, Thinking

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• Here the people could stand it no longer and complained of the long voyage; but the Admiral cheered them as best he could, holding out good hope of the advantages they would have. He added that it was useless to complain, he had come [to go] to the Indies, and so had to continue it until he found them, with the help of Our Lord.

  Christopher Columbus

  Long, People, Complaining

  Reported in Bartolome de las Casas, Journal of the First Voyage, 10 Oct. 1492 (translation by Samuel Eliot Morison)

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• There is no beautifier of complexion, or form, or behavior, like the wish to scatter joy and not pain around us. 'Tis good to give a stranger a meal, or a night's lodging. 'Tis better to be hospitable to his good meaning and thought, and give courage to a companion. We must be as 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

  Pain, Attitude, Night

  Ralph Waldo Emerson, Barbara L. Packer, Joseph Slater, Douglas Emory Wilson (2003). “The Conduct of Life”, p.104, Harvard University Press

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• People of privilege will always risk their complete destruction rather than surrender any material part of their advantage.

  John Kenneth Galbraith

  People, Risk, Investing

  "The Age of Uncertainty". Book by John Kenneth Galbraith, 1977.

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• 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.

  Andre Agassi

  Tennis, Everyday, Faults

  Andre Agassi (2015). “The Whirl”, p.10, Vintage

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• We should know that only replacing the economics of competition and greed with the economics of equitable cooperation will guarantee a globalization that takes advantage of potential efficiency gains in ways that also promote environmental protection, international equity, economic democracy, and variety.

  Robin Hahnel

  Greed, Competition, Democracy

  Robin Hahnel (1999). “Panic rules!: everything you need to know about the global economy”, South End Pr

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• I pay low wages. I can take advantage of that. We're going to be successful, but the basis is a very low-wage, low-benefit model of employment.

  Sam Walton

  Success, Greed, Employment

  "Why Google Is Like Wal-Mart". "Wired", April 21, 2005.

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• Immigrants to America help us with the work they do. They challenge us with new ideas, and they give us perspective. This is still the nation that more people around the world want to come to than any place else. That has to tell us something about ourselves. If around the world this is the place people want to come to so much, maybe there's more here than many of us realize-and that many of us can take advantage of.

  Rudy Giuliani

  Ideas, America, People

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• As Christians learn how self-styled Jews have spent millions of dollars to manufacture the 'Jewish myth' for Christian consumption and that they have done this for economic and political advantage, you will see a tremendous explosion against the Jews. Right thinking Jewish leaders are worried about this, since they see it coming.

  Benjamin H. Freedman

  Christian, Thinking, Self

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• The advantage of modern means of communication is they enable you to worry about things in all of the world

  Laurence J. Peter

  Communication, Mean, Worry

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• One thing I am convinced more and more is true, and that is this: The only way to be truly happy is to make others happy. When you realize that and take advantage of the fact, everything is made perfect.

  William Carlos Williams

  Optimistic, Make Others Happy, Perfect

  William Carlos Williams, John C. Thirlwall (1957). “The Selected Letters of William Carlos Williams”, p.5, New Directions Publishing

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• He leaned forward and opened his door, politely standing aside to let me by before following me in. There are some advantages to dating a guy from another era, I thought. Though I am a big believer in gender equality, chivalry scores high in my book.

  Amy Plum

  Book, Men, Doors

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• If you grow up ... in the suburbs of anywhere, a dream like this seems kind of vaguely ludicrous and completely unattainable, this moment is directly connected to those childhood imaginings. And for anybody who's on the downside of advantage, and relying purely on courage, it's possible.

  Russell Crowe

  Dream, Growing Up, Childhood

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• In our current society, it is considered a weakness to be female and a treason to protest this. Highlighting inequality results in aggressive insults and threats, all of which are propped up by the repeated narrative now that women are 'playing the gender card'. And this is the final insult. That of all the unfair things associated with women - the violence and insults, the financial oppression, the very undermining of our worth as human beings - it is the acknowledgement of these inequalities that gives us some kind of unfair advantage over the men who benefit from them.

  Clementine Ford

  Women, Giving, Benefits

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• It doesn't matter what business you're in. It is the people who achieve things, not capital, and the great advantage for us is that I think women have always known this.

  Janet Holmes a Court

  Business, Women, Thinking

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