Advantage Quotes - Page 8

• One advantage of marriage is that, when you fall out of love with him or he falls out of love with you, it keeps you together until you fall in again.

  Judith Viorst

  Love, Marriage, Funny Valentines Day

  Judith Viorst (1987). “Love and Guilt and the Meaning of Life, Etc.”, Fireside

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• The only advantage of not being too good a housekeeper is that your guests are so pleased to feel how very much better they are.

  Eleanor Roosevelt

  Guests, Cleaning, Housekeeping

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• One advantage in keeping a diary is that you become aware with reassuring clarity of the changes which you constantly suffer.

  Franz Kafka

  Suffering, Diaries, Clarity

  Franz Kafka, Nahum Norbert Glatzer (1974). “I am a memory come alive: autobiographical writings”, Schocken

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• To every disadvantage there is a corresponding advantage.

  W. Clement Stone

  Inspirational, Motivational, Gratitude

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  The advantage that my children have is that my children are encountering the nicest white people that America has ever produced. Let’s hope America keeps producing nicer white people.

  Chris Rock

  Children, White, America

  "Chris Rock's Epic Truth Bomb About How It's White People That Have Progressed, Not Black People". Interview with Angie Aker, www.upworthy.com. December 2, 2014.

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• Now the advantage is all with the hitters.

  Rogers Hornsby

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• We should increase our development of alternative fuels, taking advantage of renewable resources, like using corn and sugar to produce ethanol or soybeans to produce biodiesel.

  Bobby Jindal

  Alternatives, Development, Fuel

  "America’S 25 Issues to Fix and Make the United States Great, Again!". Book by Peter D. Fleming, January 15, 2010.

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• Most people have no idea how to politely answer a phone. The English do, and it's been their only major business advantage for the past two centuries.

  Douglas Coupland

  Past, Ideas, Two

  Douglas Coupland (2008). “JPod”, p.12, Bloomsbury Publishing USA

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• We need to take advantage of the opportunity we have now to create a vision and become great.

  Christine Gregoire

  Opportunity, Vision, Needs

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• There have been people who have tried to take advantage of me. They want to be linked to me just because I'm Ethel Merman.

  Ethel Merman

  People, Want, Has Beens

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• On certain plays and situations I feel like I have the advantage. But sometimes I just have to not think about the size of the guy in front of me.

  Dante Hall

  Thinking, Play, Guy

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• In Full Frontal and K Street, I learned to take advantage of the mobility that digital provides.

  Steven Soderbergh

  Mobility, Digital, Streets

  "Thinking Outside the Box Office". Interview with Xeni Jardin, www.wired.com. December 01, 2005.

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• SF has at least the advantage of not depending on preconceptions.

  John Thomas Sladek

  Preconceptions

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• Peace, which costs nothing, is attended with infinitely more advantage than any victory with all its expence.

  Thomas Paine

  Money, War, Victory

  Thomas Paine (1792). “Rights of Man, Being an Answer to Mr. Burke's Attack on the French Revolution... by T. Paine...”

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• The sole advantage of power is that you can do more good.

  Baltasar Gracian

  Power, Justice, Diversity

  Baltasar Gracian, Baltasar Gracián y Morales (2004). “The Art of Worldly Wisdom”, p.164, Shambhala Publications

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• People confuse goodness with weakness. It is weak people, not good people (goodness demands strength), who are taken advantage of.

  Dennis Prager

  Taken, People, Weakness

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• I believe that many people have forgotten what their roots are. This is one of the advantages of countries with a monarchy. The monarch offers identity across generations, and is a part of these roots and this native country.

  Margrethe II of Denmark

  Country, Believe, Roots

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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• The money is with people who have taken advantage of every single break in the tax code.

  Hillary Clinton

  Taken, People, Break

  "Transcript of the Second Debate". www.nytimes.com. October 10, 2016.

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• Everything that you are taking advantage of, inventing and using, is still a generation or two behind when it comes to the U.S. government.

  Hillary Clinton

  Government, Two, Generations

  Source: www.buzzfeed.com

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• Hillary Clinton complains that Donald Trump took advantage of the tax code. Well, why didn't she change it? Why didn't you change it when you were a senator? The reason you didn't is that all your friends take the same advantage that I do.

  Donald Trump

  Complaining, Reason, Clinton

  Source: www.washingtonpost.com

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• All people would really want peace and all would want to be sure that they would not be taken advantage of.

  Desmond Tutu

  Taken, People, Want

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• No matter who you are, if you have a $30 operating loss, you can carry it forward to the next year. And poor people do take advantage of that, also.

  Rudy Giuliani

  Loss, Years, People

  "Meet the Press" with Chuck Todd, www.nbcnews.com. October 2, 2016.

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• The US player Andy Roddick reaches speeds of 220 kilometers per hour when he serves. If I train with him every day, I will later be at an advantage against a player whose service crosses the net at 190 kilometers per hour.

  Rafael Nadal

  Player, Speed, Hours

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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• I think that's where we can both seize upon the contradictions and push them to limits that these people would not consider, while at the same time in some way you're taking advantage of what these people are saying within a discourse that has some legitimacy.

  Henry Giroux

  Thinking, People, Way

  Source: www.truth-out.org

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• I think, when I started to become successful in the movie business, my mother was very, very worried. She thought no one would want to marry me and she thought that was the most important thing. And she thought that it would affect my personal relations. And she said how worried she was that people would take advantage of me or I would meet the wrong people. When I was made head of the studio, one of her first things was, "Well, now no one will marry you. I hope you'll be happy, whatever."

  Sherry Lansing

  Mother, Successful, Thinking

  Source: www.hollywoodreporter.com

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