Advantage Quotes - Page 6

• Life is life - whether in a cat, or dog or man. There is no difference there between a cat or a man. The idea of difference is a human conception for man's own advantage.

  Sri Aurobindo

  Dog, Philosophical, Cat

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• I've made a lot of mistakes. I've bonded with some people who use you, and some people that take advantage of you.

  Larry King

  Mistake, People, Use

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• While formal schooling is an important advantage, it is not a guarantee of success nor is its absence a fatal handicap.

  Ray Kroc

  Important, Guarantees, Absence

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• No education can be of true advantage to young women but that which trains them up in humble industry, in great plainness of living, in exact modesty of dress.

  William Law

  Christian, Religious, Humble

  William Law (2013). “A Serious Call to a Devout and Holy Life”, p.233, Courier Corporation

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• A good man often appears gauche simply because he does not take advantage of the myriad mean little chances of making himself look stylish. Preferring truth to form, he is not constantly at work upon the facade of his appearance.

  Alanis Morissette

  Mean, Men, Good Man

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• I always believed that my silence on several topics will be an advantage in the long run.

  Aishwarya Rai Bachchan

  Running, Long, Silence

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• The great advantage of a hotel is that it is a refuge from home life.

  George Bernard Shaw

  Life, Travel, Home

  You Never Can Tell (1898) act 2

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• The advantage of doing one's praising for oneself is that one can lay it on so thick and exactly in the right places.

  Samuel Butler

  Inspirational, Praise, Right Place

  Way of All Flesh (1903) ch. 34

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• I had been gullible, naive, soft, pliable. That's why I got taken advantage of. To survive, you have to have a tough skin.

  Tia Carrere

  Taken, Skins, Tough Skin

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• I am in no mood to be deceived any longer by the crafty devil and false character whose greatest pleasure is to take advantage of everyone.

  Camille Claudel

  Character, Devil, Mood

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• One of the advantages of being disorderly is that one is constantly making exciting discoveries.

  A. A. Milne

  Life, Cute, Science

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

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• Adam and Eve had many advantages, but the principal one was that they escaped teething.

  Mark Twain

  Mom, Baby, Children

  Pudd'nhead Wilson ch. 4, "Pudd'nhead Wilson's Calendar" (1894)

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• The advantage of growing up with siblings is that you become very good at fractions.

  Robert Breault

  Family, Children, Growing Up

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• Against great advantages in another, there are no means of defending ourselves except love.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Love, Mean

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (2013). “Delphi Works of Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (Illustrated)”, p.771, Delphi Classics

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• Every advantage has its tax.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Taxes

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1983). “Essays and Lectures”, p.299, Library of America

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• A guardian angel comes when you are very young, and gives you special dispensation. From what? From the world. Yours might be luck. Mine is money.

  Jane Bowles

  Angel, Giving, Luck

  Jane Bowles (2014). “My Sister's Hand in Mine: The Collected Works of Jane Bowles”, p.12, Macmillan

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• Indeed, as the above calculation indicates, to take full advantage of the memory space available, the ultimate laptop must turn all its matter into energy.

  Seth Lloyd

  Memories, Space, Energy

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• We need improvement in the style of performance. There is no more advantage in a musician who plays and conducts than in one who is only a beater of rhythm.

  Franz Liszt

  Play, Style, Musician

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• The concessions of the privileged to the unprivileged are seldom brought about by any better motive than the power of the unprivileged to extort them.

  John Stuart Mill

  Motive, Concessions, Privileged

  John Stuart Mill, Harriet Taylor Mill (1970). “Essays on Sex Equality”, p.214, University of Chicago Press

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• It's easy to be led astray when you're so broken. People take advantage of you.

  Willie Aames

  Broken Heart, People, Broken Promises

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• When success comes, people can try to trick you or take advantage of you.

  Christina Aguilera

  People, Trying, Tricks

  "Aguilera's image is 'Stripped'". Interview with Elysa Gardner, usatoday30.usatoday.com. October 24, 2002.

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• A major advantage of age is learning to accept people without passing judgment.

  Liz Carpenter

  Birthday, People, Judging

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• Fugitive slaves were rare then, and as a fugitive slave lecturer, I had the advantage of being the first one out.

  Frederick Douglass

  Firsts, Slave, Fugitive

  Frederick Douglass (2016). “Life and Times of Frederick Douglass: The Illustrated Edition”, p.102, Zenith Press

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• A lot of people resist transition and therefore never allow themselves to enjoy who they are. Embrace the change, no matter what it is; once you do, you can learn about the new world you're in and take advantage of it.

  Nikki Giovanni

  People, Transition, World

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• You get people talking about being worried about their art, and dances... their culture being wiped out or taken over, and yet these same people are taking advantage of their people to use them as cheap labour.

  Arlo Guthrie

  Art, Taken, Talking

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