Disadvantages Quotes - Page 3

• Many count on their disadvantages to cover for them.

  Mason Cooley

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• There is a reason why one man is born black and with other disadvantages, while another is born white with great advantages. The reason is that we once had an estate before we came here, and were obedient; more or less, to the laws that were given us there. Those who were faithful in all things there received greater blessings here, and those who were not faithful received less

  Joseph Fielding Smith

  Blessing, Men, Law

  Joseph Fielding Smith (1972). “Doctrines of Salvation: Sermons and Writings”

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• There are no accidents so unlucky from which clever people are not able to reap some advantage, and none so lucky that the foolish are not able to turn them to their own disadvantage.

  Francois de La Rochefoucauld

  Clever, People, Able

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• I grew up with a lot of compassion and empathy. I notice when I meet other friends of mine that were raised Christian sometimes we have similar model of sensitivity, whether to our advantage or disadvantage.

  Weyes Blood

  Christian, Compassion, Empathy

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• Unions are at a disadvantage in a company vote because the employees can see that the greatest advocates of unionization are often the malcontents and marginal workers.

  James Cook

  Unions, Vote, Malcontent

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• Any corporate policy and plan which is typical of the industry is doomed to mediocrity. Where this is not so, it should be possible to demonstrate that all other competitors are at a distinct disadvantage.

  Bruce Henderson

  Typical, Mediocrity, Should

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• One of the advantages of pure congregational singing is that you can join in the singing whether you have a voice or not. The disadvantage is that your neighbor can do the same.

  Charles Dudley Warner

  Music, Voice, Singing

  Charles Dudley Warner (1875). “Backlog Studies”, p.175

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• In the last twelve years, we have come some distance towards reconciliation and the breaking down of disadvantage. Let us take encouragement from what has been achieved and set our minds and hearts to end the remaining roadblocks.

  Malcolm Fraser

  Encouragement, Distance, Heart

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

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• A singular disadvantage of the sea lies in the fact that after successfully surmounting one wave you discover another behind it just as important and just as nervously anxious to do something effective in the way of swamping boats. In a ten-foot dinghy one can get an idea of the resources of the sea in the line of waves that is not probable to the average experience, which is never at sea in a dinghy.

  Stephen Crane

  Lying, Average, Sea

  Stephen Crane (1993). “The Open Boat and Other Stories”, p.58, Courier Corporation

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• Stupidity is active in every direction, and can dress up in all the clothes of truth. Truth, on the other hand, has for every occasion only one dress and one path, and is always at a disadvantage.

  Robert Musil

  Hands, Clothes, Stupidity

  Robert Musil, Burton Pike, David S. Luft (1995). “Precision and Soul: Essays and Addresses”, p.284, University of Chicago Press

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• A New York audience generally likes decorative paintings, and decorative paintings go with the couch. If you change the couch, you change the painting. And when you're coming up, and the paintings aren't first-class decoration, you're at a disadvantage for publicity and sales.

  Alex Katz

  New York, Class, Firsts

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• A man should be careful never to tell tales of himself to his own disadvantage. People may be amused at the time, but they will be remembered, and brought out against him upon some subsequent occasion.

  Samuel Johnson

  Honesty, Men, People

  Quoted in James Boswell, The Life of Samuel Johnson (1791) (entry for 25 Mar. 1776)

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• Monarchies are above political parties. Sometimes political parties do things that are to the disadvantage of the country because they want to beat the other party. In Iran, where we have different religions and ethnic groups, it was a unifying factor.

  Farah Diba

  Country, Party, Iran

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• The first and most important rule to observe...is to use our entire forces with the utmost energy. The second rule is to concentrate our power as much as possible against that section where the chief blows are to be delivered and to incur disadvantages elsewhere, so that our chances of success may increase at the decisive point. The third rule is never to waste time. Finally, the fourth rule is to follow up our successes with the utmost energy. Only pursuit of the beaten enemy gives the fruits of victory.

  Carl von Clausewitz

  Blow, Giving, Enemy

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• Science is neither a single tradition, nor the best tradition there is, except for people who have become accustomed to its presence, its benefits and its disadvantages. In a democracy it should be separated from the state just as churches are now separated from the state.

  Paul Feyerabend

  Science, People, Democracy

  Paul Feyerabend (1993). “Against Method”, p.238, Verso

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• Within every setback or obstacle or disadvantage there is the seed of an equal or opposite or greater advantage or benefit.

  Napoleon Hill

  Opposites, Benefits, Obstacles

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• The moral peril to humanity of thoughtlessly accepting these conveniences [of materialism] (with their inherent disadvantages) as constituting a philosophy of life is now becoming apparent. For the implications of this disruptive materialism... are that human beings are nothing but bodies, animals, machines.

  Aldous Huxley

  Philosophy, Animal, Humanity

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• Let us consider under what disadvantages Science has hitherto labored before we pronounce thus confidently on her progress.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Science, Progress

  Henry David Thoreau (2013). “The Essential Thoreau”, p.236, Simon and Schuster

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• If other countries don't impose a cost on carbon, then we will be at a disadvantage...we would look at considering perhaps duties that would offset that cost.

  Steven Chu

  Country, Business, Looks

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• Fine writing is a distinct disadvantage. So is unique literary style. They take attention from the subject

  Claude C. Hopkins

  Writing, Unique, Style

  Dr. Robert C. Worstell, Claude C. Hopkins, John E. Kennedy, Albert D. Lasker “Scientific Advertising Origins”, Lulu.com

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• We live in the country, and I have a huge library there. When we go to London for the winter I never know which books to take. I never know what I am going to need. Thats the only disadvantage.

  Mordecai

  Country, Book, Winter

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• There are a lot of disadvantages with the YouTube stigma, because no one wants to be known as just a cover band. It's all about the original music.

  Alex Goot

  Band, Want, Youtube

  Source: www.meldmagazine.com.au

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• Awkwardness is a more real disadvantage than it is generally thought to be; it often occasions ridicule, it always lessens dignity.

  Lord Chesterfield

  Real, Dignity, Ridicule

  Lord Chesterfield (2008). “The Modern Chesterfield”, p.250, Wildside Press LLC

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• If the nobles of the country really have the welfare of the people at heart, they should prevent and forbid music wherever it makes an appearance. For the fact that the people practise music has four disadvantages. The hungry are not fed, the cold are not clothed, the homeless are not sheltered and the desperate find no consolation.

  John Tilbury

  Country, Heart, People

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• Recently, I took my son to see The Haunted Mansion, which was one of the worst things (I hesitate even to call it a movie) that I have ever seen. He thought it was better than Finding Nemo and we had a fruitless argument which I'm sure made him acutely aware of the disadvantages of having a film critic for a dad.

  A. O. Scott

  Dad, Son, Film Critics

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