Advantage Quotes - Page 3

• The expert in battle seeks his victory from strategic advantage and does not demand it from his men.

  Sun Tzu

  Leadership, Business, Art Of War

  "The Art of War". Book by Sun Tzu, Chapter V · Forces, 2003.

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• There is no avoiding war; it can only be postponed to the advantage of others.

  Niccolo Machiavelli

  Peace, Military, War

  "The Prince". Book by Niccolò Machiavelli, 1513.

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• A computer does not substitute for judgment any more than a pencil substitutes for literacy. But writing without a pencil is no particular advantage.

  Robert McNamara

  Inspiring, Writing, Computer Literacy

  Robert S. McNamara (1968). “The Essence of Security: Reflections in Office”, New York : Harper & Row

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• Celebrity is the advantage of being known to people who we don't know, and who don't know us.

  Nicolas Chamfort

  People, Literature, Fame

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• So many people comment that I'm much more mature than average. In this business, you can get taken advantage of if you're not aware and you're not tough.

  Amanda Bynes

  Taken, Average, People

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• Builders eventually took advantage of the look of modernism to build cheaply and carelessly.

  Arthur Erickson

  Artist, Looks, Modernism

  Speech to McGill University School of Architecture, www.arthurerickson.com. October 21, 2000.

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• Scientists are human-they're as biased as any other group. But they do have one great advantage in that science is a self-correcting process.

  Cyril Ponnamperuma

  Science, Self, Groups

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• No mother would ever willingly sacrifice her sons for territorial gain, for economic advantage, for ideology.

  Ronald Reagan

  Mother, Peace, War

  Moscow State University Address, delivered 31 May 1988, Moscow, Russia

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• American teachers have one indisputable advantage over foreign ones; they understand the American temperament and can judge its unevenness, its lights and its shadows.

  John Philip Sousa

  Teacher, Light, Judging

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• You should not have taken advantage of my sensibility to steal into my affections without my consent.

  Alexander Hamilton

  Taken, Affection, Stealing

  Alexander Hamilton (1842). “The Official and Other Papers of the Late Major-General Alexander Hamilton: Comp. Chiefly from the Originals in the Possession of Mrs. Hamilton ...”, p.331

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• As an avid photographer, I also took advantage of the latest technology in photography - digital photography - to post photos on my website on a daily basis.

  Tipper Gore

  Photography, Technology, Avid

  "Personal Quotes/ Biography". www.imdb.com.

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• The information that is passed from person to person and from generation to generation is the primary factor that gives humans a competitive advantage over other animals.

  Keith Henson

  Animal, Giving, Generations

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• He who is in love with himself has at least this advantage - he won't encounter many rivals.

  Georg C. Lichtenberg

  Love, Rivals, Encounters

  "Aphorisms". Book by Georg Christoph Lichtenberg. Notebook H 10, 1799.

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• I'd rather wear jewels in my hair than anywhere else. The face should have the advantage of this brilliance.

  Hedy Lamarr

  Hair, Jewels, Should Have

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• Our biggest goal is to continue to force ourselves to always start our creative work on a white page and not take advantage of past successes and challenging ourselves.

  Guy Laliberte

  Past, White, Goal

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• The advantage of love at first sight is that it delays a second sight.

  Natalie Clifford Barney

  First Love, Sight, Cynical

  "Samples from Almost Illegible Notebooks". Adam International Review, No. 299, 1962.

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• It is a good rule in life never to apologize. The right sort of people do not want apologies, and the wrong sort take a mean advantage of them.

  P. G. Wodehouse

  Life, Sorry, Humorous

  The Man Upstairs (1914) title story

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• My background playing soccer gave me a natural advantage over many of the American-born players.

  Hakeem Olajuwon

  Soccer, Sports, Player

  "Is African Soccer the NBA’s New Breeding Ground?" by Ange Kagame, www.huffingtonpost.com. March 4, 2015.

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• [I]f vice and corruption prevail, liberty cannot subsist; but if virtue have the advantage, arbitrary power cannot be established.

  Algernon Sidney

  Liberty, Arbitrary, Vices

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• Impartial - unable to perceive any promise of personal advantage from espousing either side of a controversy.

  Ambrose Bierce

  Promise, Literature, Sides

  Ambrose Bierce (2001). “The Unabridged Devil's Dictionary”, p.119, University of Georgia Press

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• The economy of human time is the next advantage of machinery in manufactures.

  Charles Babbage

  Time, Technology, People

  Charles Babbage (1841). “On the Economy of Machinery and Manufactures”, p.8

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• Well, I love having kids. But I have the advantage of having a lot of help, a real hands-on husband and small children whom I can easily manipulate.

  Jane Kaczmarek

  Children, Husband, Real

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• Be able to be alone. Lose not the advantage of solitude.

  Thomas Browne

  Being Alone, Self, Solitude

  Sir Thomas Browne (1844). “Religio Medici [and] Its Sequel Christian Morals”, p.176

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• The two big advantages I had at birth were to have been born wise and to have been born in poverty.

  Sophia Loren

  Wise, Two, Poverty

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• Of course, I do have a slight advantage over the rest of you. It helps in a pinch to be able to remind your bride that you gave up a throne for her.

  King Edward VIII

  Wedding, Thrones, Able

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