Advantage Quotes - Page 4

• Its better to get smart than to get mad. I try not to get so insulted that I will not take advantage of an opportunity to persuade people to change their minds.

  John H. Johnson

  Smart, Opportunity, People

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• I was a brat. It was crazy, I was very picky. In other words, I didn't take advantage of what was happening

  Sherilyn Fenn

  Crazy, Madness, Brat

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• I often want to cry. That is the only advantage women have over men — at least they can cry.

  Jean Rhys

  Men, Want, Cry

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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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• Certainly there was no just cause of complaint from the Northern States - no advantage was ever sought or obtained by them for their section of the Republic.

  Robert Toombs

  Republic, Causes, States

  Robert Augustus Toombs (1860). “Speech of Hon. Robert Toombs: On the Crisis. Delivered Before the Georgia Legislature, December 7, 1860”, p.4

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• The general fact of surplus value, namely that the workmen does not get the full value of his labours, and that he is taken advantage of by the capitalist, is obvious.

  Edward Carpenter

  Taken, Doe, Facts

  Edward Carpenter (1916). “My days and dreams: being autobiographical notes”

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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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• Terrorists always have the advantage of surprise.

  Gijs de Vries

  Surprise, Terrorist

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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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• I had the advantage of reading the book, and when the script was first submitted to me, it was just another gangster story - the east side taking over the west side and all that.

  Edward G. Robinson

  Book, Reading, East

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• I've had an advantage; I've had a sort of open public acceptance in New York that doesn't happen to just anyone trying to make the transition you were talking about.

  Steve Forbert

  New York, Acceptance, Talking

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• The great advantage to labor arising out of co-operative effort has been apparent to me for many years.

  Leland Stanford

  Years, Effort, Labor

  Leland Stanford (1887). “Co-operation of Labor: Views of Senator Leland Stanford of California. An Interview ...”

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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 have a name, I have to take advantage of it.

  Pierre Cardin

  Hypocrite, Names

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• The advantage that hospitals have over other institutions is that hospitals are community-based. You can't outsource your work; you can't move your emergency department to Pakistan.

  Mark Shields

  Moving, Community, Pakistan

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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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• Sometimes, when my wife and I were going out to dinner, I would take my laptop with me and work in the car, so as to take advantage of the half hour going and coming.

  Thomas Friedman

  Wife, Car, Laptops

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• In The States I would have no edge, no advantage at all.

  Nigel Dennis

  States, Edges

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• The public lands are a public stock, which ought to be disposed of to the best
  advantage for the nation.

  James Monroe

  Land, Ought, Nations

  James Monroe (199?). “The Writings of James Monroe: 1817-1823”

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• It is here we come to the heart of the matter. The economic principle of comparative advantage', 'a country may, in return for manufactured commodities, import corn even if it can be grown with less labour than in the country from which it is imported

  David Ricardo

  Country, Heart, Principles

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• Where misunderstanding serves others as an advantage, one is helpless to make oneself understood.

  Lionel Trilling

  Understanding, Obscurity, Miscommunication

  Lionel Trilling (2012). “The Liberal Imagination”, p.259, New York Review of Books

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• Every man has inside himself a parasitic being who is acting not at all to his advantage.

  William S. Burroughs

  Hipster, Men, Acting

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• Men become much more attractive when they start looking older. But it doesn't do much for women, though we do have an advantage: make-up.

  Bette Davis

  Men, Attractive

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• We try to be real nice and friendly to people, but sometimes they take advantage of that.

  Layne Staley

  Real, Nice, People

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• Crises and deadlocks when they occur have at least this advantage, that they force us to think.

  Jawaharlal Nehru

  Thinking, Pandit, Force

  Jawaharlal Nehru, M. Chalapathi Rau, H. Y. Sharada Prasad, Bal Ram Nanda (1972). “Selected Works of Jawaharlal Nehru: Advisory Board: M. Chalapathi Rau, H. Y. Sharada Prasad, and B. R. Nanda; General Editor: S. Gopal”

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