#advantages

A Christian people who have for two hundred years kept a race in bondage, deprived of the advantages of civilization and religion, owe them a debt of gratitude which it would seem ungenerous to withhold. ↗

— Nelson A. Miles

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On the contrary, if they are treated with justice and humanity, proper example and the advantages of education given them, the coming years will be as bright and prosperous to the unfortunate race as the past has been dark and painful. ↗

— Nelson A. Miles

#been #bright #coming #contrary #dark

To illustrate to the Indians the advantages the white race had in the telephone I divided a body of warriors from Sitting Bull's camp into two parties and had them talk to each other over the telephone line. ↗

— Nelson A. Miles

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People with advantages are loath to believe that they just happen to be people with advantages. ↗

— C. Wright Mills

#believe #happen #just #loath #people

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. ↗

— Wilson Mizner

#advantages #affairs #being #being done #desire

Historically, the Republicans have been geniuses at throwing away advantages. ↗

— Bob Packwood

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But there are advantages to being elected President. The day after I was elected, I had my high school grades classified Top Secret. ↗

— Ronald Reagan

#after #being #classified #day #elected

One of the advantages of moving quickly is if you do something wrong you can change it. What technologies tend to do is they tend to make a lot of mistakes... but then we go back and aggressively attack those mistakes - and fix them. And you usually recover pretty quickly. ↗

— Marc Andreessen

#aggressively #attack #back #change #fix

But as far as my work is concerned, I see no impediment, and various advantages, to being deaf. ↗

— Stephanie Beacham

#as far as #being #concerned #deaf #far

If you write fiction, you're by yourself. There are certain advantages to that in that you don't have to explain anything to anybody. But when you get in with others who share the loneliness of the whole enterprise, you're not lonely anymore. ↗

— Denis Johnson

#anybody #anymore #anything #certain #enterprise