#great advantage

The great advantage about telling the truth is that nobody ever believes it. ↗

— Dorothy L. Sayers

#advantage #believes #ever #great #great advantage

I have a great advantage over many of my colleagues inasmuch as my students bring with them to class their own personal knowledge of national, regional, religious, ethnic, occupational, and family folklore traditions. ↗

— Alan Dundes

#bring #class #colleagues #ethnic #family

There were very few women comics when I started out doing stand-up. But I always saw that as a great advantage. ↗

— Carol Leifer

#always #comics #doing #few #few women

What I learned at Oxford has been used to great advantage throughout my business career. ↗

— Paul Getty

#been #business #business career #career #great

I regard it in fact as the great advantage of the mathematical technique that it allows us to describe, by means of algebraic equations, the general character of a pattern even where we are ignorant of the numerical values which will determine its particular manifestation. ↗

— Friedrich August von Hayek

#allows #character #describe #determine #equations

As a result, the highly civilized man can endure incomparably more than the savage, whether of moral or physical strain. Being better able to control himself under all circumstances, he has a great advantage over the savage. ↗

— Lafcadio Hearn

#advantage #being #better #circumstances #civilized

Experience is a great advantage. The problem is that when you get the experience, you're too damned old to do anything about it. ↗

— Jimmy Connors

#advantage #anything #damned #experience #get

Scientists are human, they're as biased as any other group. But they do have one great advantage in that science is a self-correcting process. ↗

— Cyril Ponnamperuma

#any #biased #great #great advantage #group

The great advantage to labor arising out of co-operative effort has been apparent to me for many years. ↗

— Leland Stanford

#apparent #arising #been #co-operative #effort

The great advantage of the Lib Dems is precisely that no-one knows what they stand for. ↗

— Tony Blair

#great #great advantage #knows #lib #no-one