Unfair Advantage Quotes

• Justice demands that the good and hard-working be rewarded and the evil and the lazy be punished (if only by the withholding of the rewards of doing the right things). Modern Liberalism demands that the good and hardworking be punished as the recipients of an unfair advantage and the evil and the lazy be rewarded, their acts of evil and their failure all the proof the Modern Liberal needs that somehow they have been victimized by forces out of their control.

  Evan Sayet

  Hard Work, Evil, Justice

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• Creativity is one of the last remaining legal ways of gaining an unfair advantage over the competition.

  Ed McCabe

  Creativity, Competition, Way

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• As they say on my own Cape Cod, a rising tide lifts all the boats. And a partnership, by definition, serves both partners, without domination or unfair advantage. Together we have been partners in adversitylet us also be partners in prosperity.

  John F. Kennedy

  Together, Capes, Rising

  "Address in the Assembly Hall at the Paulskirche in Frankfurt". www.presidency.ucsb.edu. June 25, 1963.

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• Girls have an unfair advantage over men: if they can't get what they want by being smart, they can get it by being dumb.

  Yul Brynner

  Funny, Girl, Witty

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• A cowboy never takes unfair advantage - even of an enemy.

  Gene Autry

  Cowboy, Enemy, Unfair

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• An imbalanced association is when one or both parties become abusive and takes unfair advantage, tries to block another's enlightenment or success.

  Frederick Lenz

  Block, Party, Buddhism

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• We need fair rules of the road, so big corporations can't use their power to gain unfair advantages.

  Hillary Clinton

  Needs, Use, Corporations

  Source: time.com

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• Trust means "I know that you will not-deliberately or accidentally, consciously or unconsciously-take unfair advantage of me." It means "I can put my situation at the moment, my status and self-esteem in the group, our relationship, my job, my career, even my life in your hands with complete confidence."

  Douglas McGregor

  Jobs, Self Esteem, Mean

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• I have been dealing with claims that I cheated and had an unfair advantage in winning my seven Tours since 1999.

  Lance Armstrong

  Winning, Seven, Claims

  "Armstrong gives up fight against doping charges". Interview with David Mark, www.abc.net.au. August 24, 2012.

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• Most people are great at absorbing information. Guerrilla marketing is needed because it gives small businesses a delightfully unfair advantage: certainty in an uncertain world, economy in a high-priced world, simplicity in a complicated world, marketing awareness in a clueless world.

  Jay Conrad Levinson

  Clueless, Complicated World, People

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• Remember every team wants to beat Chelsea, probably even more than Manchester United or Arsenal because they believe we have an unfair advantage.

  Frank Lampard

  Team, Believe, England

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• We wish to control big business so as to secure among other things good wages for the wage-workers and reasonable prices for the consumers. Wherever in any business the prosperity of the business man is obtained by lowering the wages of his workmen and charging an excessive price to the consumers we wish to interfere and stop such practices. We will not submit to that kind of prosperity any more than we will submit to prosperity obtained by swindling investors or getting unfair advantages over business rivals.

  Theodore Roosevelt

  Men, Practice, Wish

  Address by Theodore Roosevelt Before The Convention Of The National Progressive Party in Chicago, www.ssa.gov. August 1912.

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• Cassandra sat on the floor with Chris and Kat, playing Life. They had tried to play Trivial Pursuit earlier only to learn that a Dark-Hunter and an immortal handmaiden to a goddess had a decidedly unfair advantage over Cassandra and Chris. In Life, the only thing that mattered was luck.’ (Cassandra)

  Sherrilyn Kenyon

  Dark, Play, Luck

  Sherrilyn Kenyon (2010). “Kiss of the Night”, p.198, Macmillan

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• What is your problem?” I asked, scooping the freezing mess out of my cleavage. “We got unfinished business,” he reminded me. “My name’s not Bill.” He chuckled. “Yeah, I loved that movie. Shoulda brought a katana, but it seemed like an unfair advantage.

  Karen Chance

  Unfinished Business, Names, Bills

  Karen Chance (2012). “Fury's Kiss: A Midnight's Daughter Novel”, p.117, Penguin

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• With my size and speed, my ability to make moves and great vision, I'm sometimes feel like it's an unfair advantage over the defense.

  LaDainian Tomlinson

  Moving, Nfl, Vision

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• I don't mind what the opposition say of me so long as they don't tell the truth about me. But when they descend to telling the truth about me I consider that this is taking an unfair advantage.

  Mark Twain

  Truth, Long, Mind

  Mark Twain (1984). “Plymouth Rock and the Pilgrims and other salutary platform opinions”, Harpercollins

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• In our current society, it is considered a weakness to be female and a treason to protest this. Highlighting inequality results in aggressive insults and threats, all of which are propped up by the repeated narrative now that women are 'playing the gender card'. And this is the final insult. That of all the unfair things associated with women - the violence and insults, the financial oppression, the very undermining of our worth as human beings - it is the acknowledgement of these inequalities that gives us some kind of unfair advantage over the men who benefit from them.

  Clementine Ford

  Women, Giving, Benefits

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• How can you allow the trading companies to locate computers closer to exchanges and flash millions of bids to give an unfair advantage? Even professionals are losing faith in some aspects of the system.

  Mario

  Giving, Losing, Computer

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• And we had the perhaps unfair advantage of not having to worry about what an audience was gonna think. We were in a vacuum. We were making little short films, really.

  Rick Moranis

  Thinking, Hair, Worry

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• I'd like to run for office someday, but I'm afraid my ability to spell might give me an unfair advantage.

  April Winchell

  Running, Office, Giving

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• It may well be that creativity is the last unfair advantage we're legally allowed to take over our competitors.

  William Bernbach

  Creativity, May, Lasts

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• All I ever wanted was an unfair advantage

  Garrison Wynn

  Unfair, Advantage, Wanted

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