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| It is in human nature to relax, when not compelled by personal ADVANTAGE or disADVANTAGE. | Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe | 1749-1832, German Poet, Dramatist, Novelist |
| The man who does not read books has no ADVANTAGE over the man that can not read them. | Mark Twain | 1835-1910, American Humorist, Writer |
| Books are standing counsellors and preachers, always at hand, and always disinterested; having this ADVANTAGE over oral instructors, that they are ready to repeat their lesson as often as we please. | Oswald Chambers | 1874-1917 Scottish Preacher, Author |
| While formal schooling is an important ADVANTAGE, it is not a guarantee of success nor is its absence a fatal handicap. | Ray Kroc | 1902-1984, American businessman, Founder of McDonalds |
| If we help an educated man's daughter to go to Cambridge are we not forcing her to think not about education but about war? -- not how she can learn, but how she can fight in order that she might win the same ADVANTAGEs as her brothers? | Virginia Woolf | 1882-1941, British Novelist, Essayist |
| We grow a little every time we do not take ADVANTAGE of somebody's weakness. | Bern Williams | |
| Everything has been said yet few have taken ADVANTAGE of it. Since all our knowledge is essentially banal, it can only be of value to minds that are not. | Raoul Vaneigem | 1934-, Belgian Situationist Philosopher |
| The use of money is all the ADVANTAGE there is in having money. | Benjamin Franklin | 1706-1790, American Scientist, Publisher, Diplomat |
| There is no necessary connection between the desire to lead and the ability to lead, and even less the ability to lead somewhere that will be to the ADVANTAGE of the led¨ | Bergen Evans | American Author |
| Do not be desirous of having things done quickly. Do not look at small ADVANTAGEs. Desire to have things done quickly prevents their being done thoroughly. Looking at small ADVANTAGEs prevents great affairs from being accomplished. | Confucius | BC 551-479, Chinese Ethical Teacher, Philosopher |
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| Take ADVANTAGE of every opportunity to practice your communication skills so that when important occasions arise, you will have the gift, the style, the sharpness, the clarity, and the emotions to affect other people. | Jim Rohn | American Businessman, Author, Speaker, Philosopher |
| There is nothing wrong in using people. The success never uses people except to their ADVANTAGE. | Mark Caine | |
| Nothing gives a person so much ADVANTAGE over another as to remain always cool and unruffled under all circumstances. | Thomas Jefferson | 1743-1826, Third President of the USA |
| Entrepreneurs are simply those who understand that there is little difference between obstacle and opportunity and are able to turn both to their ADVANTAGE. | Victor Kiam | American Businessman, CEO of Remington |
| A grave blockhead should always go about with a lively one -- they show one another off to the best ADVANTAGE. | William Hazlitt | 1778-1830, British Essayist |
| One of the ADVANTAGEs of being disorderly is that one is constantly making exciting discoveries. | A. A. Milne | 1882-1956, British Born American Writer |
| I believe, if we take habitual drunkards as a class, their heads and their hearts will bear an ADVANTAGEous comparison with those of any other class. There seems ever to have been a proneness in the brilliant and warm-blooded to fall into this vice. | Abraham Lincoln | 1809-1865, Sixteenth President of the USA |
| True wit is nature to ADVANTAGE dressed, what oft was thought, but never so well expressed. | Alexander Pope | 1688-1744, British Poet, Critic, Translator |
| Impartial. Unable to perceive any promise of personal ADVANTAGE from espousing either side of a controversy. | Ambrose Bierce | 1842-1914, American Author, Editor, Journalist, ''The Devil's Dictionary'' |
| Eulogy. Praise of a person who has either the ADVANTAGEs of wealth and power, or the consideration to be dead. | Ambrose Bierce | 1842-1914, American Author, Editor, Journalist, ''The Devil's Dictionary'' |
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| She was not a women likely to settle for equality when sex gave her an ADVANTAGE. | Anthony Delano | |
| The ability to learn faster than your competitors may be only sustainable competitive ADVANTAGE. | Arie de Geus | Dutch Business Strategist |
| Next to knowing when to seize an opportunity, the most important thing in life is to know when to forego an ADVANTAGE. | Benjamin Disraeli | 1804-1881, British Statesman, Prime Minister |
| Were it offered to my choice, I should have no objection to a repetition of the same life from its beginning, only asking the ADVANTAGEs authors have in a second edition to correct some faults in the first. | Benjamin Franklin | 1706-1790, American Scientist, Publisher, Diplomat |
| I should have no objection to go over the same life from its beginning to the end: requesting only the ADVANTAGE authors have, of correcting in a second edition the faults of the first. | Benjamin Franklin | 1706-1790, American Scientist, Publisher, Diplomat |
| Human felicity is produced not as much by great pieces of good fortune that seldom happen as by little ADVANTAGEs that occur every day. | Benjamin Franklin | 1706-1790, American Scientist, Publisher, Diplomat |
| In life, as in chess, forethought wins. | Charles Buxton | 1823-1871, British Author |
| The society of dead authors has this ADVANTAGE over that of the living: they never flatter us to our faces, nor slander us behind our backs, nor intrude upon our privacy, nor quit their shelves until we take them down. | Charles Caleb Colton | 1780-1832, British Sportsman Writer |
| A strange and somewhat impassive physiognomy is often, perhaps, an ADVANTAGE to an orator, or leader of any sort, because it helps to fix the eye and fascinate the mind. | Charles Horton Cooley | 1864-1929, American Sociologist |
| To get away from one's working environment is, in a sense, to get away from one's self; and this is often the chief ADVANTAGE of travel and change. | Charles Horton Cooley | 1864-1929, American Sociologist |
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| A well-run restaurant is like a winning baseball team. It makes the most of every crew member's talent and takes ADVANTAGE of every split-second opportunity to speed up service. | David Ogilvy | 1911-, American Businessman, Advertising Expert |
| It is the nature, and the ADVANTAGE, of strong people that they can bring out the crucial questions and form a clear opinion about them. The weak always have to decide between alternatives that are not their own. | Dietrich Bonhoeffer | 1906-1945, German Lutheran Pastor and Theologian |
| A fine woman shows her charms to most ADVANTAGE when she seems most to conceal them. The finest bosom in nature is not so fine as what imagination forms. | Dr. Gregory | |
| There seems to be one quality of mind which seems to be of special and extreme ADVANTAGE in leading him to make discoveries. It was the power of never letting exceptions go unnoticed. | Francis Darwin | |
| Let the fear of a danger be a spur to prevent it; he that fears not, gives ADVANTAGE to the danger. | Francis Quarles | 1592-1644, British Poet |
| There is one ADVANTAGE to having nothing, it never needs repair. | Frank A. Clark | |
| I assess the power of a will by how much resistance, pain, torture it endures and knows how to turn to its ADVANTAGE. | Friedrich Nietzsche | 1844-1900, German Philosopher |
| The ADVANTAGE of a bad memory is that one enjoys several times the same good things for the first time. | Friedrich Nietzsche | 1844-1900, German Philosopher |
| He who is in love with himself has at least this ADVANTAGE -- he won't encounter many rivals. | Georg C. Lichtenberg | 1742-1799, German Physicist, Satirist |
| It is in the gift for employing all the vicissitudes of life to one's own ADVANTAGE and to that of one's craft that a large part of genius consists. | Georg C. Lichtenberg | 1742-1799, German Physicist, Satirist |
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| He who is enamoured of himself will at least have the ADVANTAGE of being inconvenienced by few rivals. | Georg C. Lichtenberg | 1742-1799, German Physicist, Satirist |
| First love is only a little foolishness and a lot of curiosity: no really self-respecting woman would take ADVANTAGE of it. | George Bernard Shaw | 1856-1950, Irish-born British Dramatist |
| It is easy -- terribly easy -- to shake a man's faith in himself. To take ADVANTAGE of that to break a man's spirit is devil's work. | George Bernard Shaw | 1856-1950, Irish-born British Dramatist |
| It's them as take ADVANTAGE that get ADVANTAGE I this world. | George Eliot | 1819-1880, British Novelist |
| If you have embraced a creed which appears to be free from the ordinary dirtiness of politics --a creed from which you yourself cannot expect to draw any material ADVANTAGE --surely that proves that you are in the right? | George Orwell | 1903-1950, British Author, ''Animal Farm'' |
| It is a great ADVANTAGE for a system of philosophy to be substantially true. | George Santayana | 1863-1952, American Philosopher, Poet |
| An ADVANTAGE of poverty, your relatives gain nothing by your death. | Hebrew Proverb | Sayings of Hebrew Origin |
| Whether the flower looks better in the nosegay than in the meadow where it grew and we had to wet our feet to get it! Is the scholastic air any ADVANTAGE? | Henry David Thoreau | 1817-1862, American Essayist, Poet, Naturalist |
| I quietly declare war with the State, after my fashion, though I will still make use and get ADVANTAGE of her as I can, as is usual in such cases. | Henry David Thoreau | 1817-1862, American Essayist, Poet, Naturalist |
| If we do what is necessary, all the odds are in our favour. | Henry Kissinger | 1923-, American Republican Politician, Secretary of State |
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