#advantage

In the course of her education she had gone through the history usually put into the hands of young people... now her ripened reason gave to her present study at least the advantage of novelty. ↗

— Charlotte Smith

#course #education #gave #gone #had

The prudent see only the difficulties, the bold only the advantages, of a great enterprise; the hero sees both; diminishes the former and makes the latter preponderate, and so conquers. ↗

— Johann Kaspar Lavater

#bold #both #conquers #difficulties #diminishes

No education can be of true advantage to young women but that which trains them up in humble industry, in great plainness of living, in exact modesty of dress. ↗

— William Law

#dress #education #exact #great #humble

One of the disadvantages of being a patrician is that occasionally you're obliged to act like one. ↗

— Dalton Trumbo

#being #disadvantages #like #obliged #occasionally

I think I had kind of an advantage. When I was growing up, my dad had just got out of jail and he had a great record collection. He had - it was all - these were the songs. So I heard a lot of these songs, like, my whole life, so for me it was easy. I already knew what I was going to sing. ↗

— Chris Isaak

#already #collection #dad #easy #going

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

#alternative #biodiesel #corn #development #ethanol

It's better to get smart than to get mad. I try not to get so insulted that I will not take advantage of an opportunity to persuade people to change their minds. ↗

— John H. Johnson

#better #change #get #i #insulted

We have entered an age in which education is not just a luxury permitting some men an advantage over others. It has become a necessity without which a person is defenseless in this complex, industrialized society. We have truly entered the century of the educated man. ↗

— Lyndon B. Johnson

#age #become #century #complex #defenseless

Inherently, department stores have significant advantages compared to all other retailers. ↗

— Ron Johnson

#compared #department #department stores #inherently #other

One of the disadvantages of wine is that it makes a man mistake words for thoughts. ↗

— Samuel Johnson

#makes #man #mistake #thoughts #wine