To govern is always to choose among disadvantages.
I have had all the disadvantages required for success.
Nothing is more admirable than the fortitude with which millionaires tolerate the disadvantages of their wealth.
With disadvantages enough to bring him to humility, a Scotsman is one of the proudest things alive.
The future battle on the ground will be preceded by battle in the air. This will determine which of the contestants has to suffer operational and tactical disadvantages and be forced throughout the battle into adoption compromise solutions.
Truth, though it has many disadvantages, is at least changeless. You can always find it where you left it.
To be a Dumont actor was considered to be a great honor for an actor, yet it also had its disadvantages.
Further, a defensive policy involves the loss of the initiative, with all the consequent disadvantages to the defender.
One of the disadvantages of being a patrician is that occasionally you're obliged to act like one
I have wondered sometimes if there are not perhaps some disadvantages in having really blue blood in one's veins, like grandmamma and me.
We always deceive ourselves twice about the people we love - first to their advantage, then to their disadvantage.
Some minds seem almost to create themselves, springing up under every disadvantage and working their solitary but irresistible way through a thousand obstacles.
Every disadvantage has its advantage.
Being a good psychoanalyst has the same disadvantage as being a good parent: The children desert one as they grow up.
The only disadvantage of an honest heart is credulity.
One of the disadvantages of wine is that it makes a man mistake words for thoughts.
It's not too good to have this attitude in F1. It could be a disadvantage.
Democracy is only an experiment in government, and it has the obvious disadvantage of merely counting votes instead of weighing them.
To every disadvantage there is a corresponding advantage.
The great disadvantage of our present electoral system is that it freezes the pattern of politics, and holds together the incompatible because everyone assumes that if a party splits it will be electorally slaughtered
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