#vantage

The year 1915 was one of meager results, the advantages remaining on the side of the Central Powers, with this understanding, however: The Allies were growing stronger because Great Britain was making rapid progress in marshaling her resources for war. ↗

— Kelly Miller

#allies #because #britain #central #great

The public lands are a public stock, which ought to be disposed of to the best advantage for the nation. ↗

— James Monroe

#best #disposed #lands #nation #ought

But poets were not considered dangerous and they were advised to exercise self-censorship. At most, poets were requested not to write at all. I took advantage of this negative liberty. ↗

— Eugenio Montale

#advised #considered #dangerous #exercise #i

And we had the perhaps unfair advantage of not having to worry about what an audience was gonna think. We were in a vacuum. We were making little short films, really. ↗

— Rick Moranis

#advantage #audience #films #gonna #had

In Trinidad, where as new arrivals we were a disadvantaged community, that excluding idea was a kind of protection; it enabled us - for the time being, and only for the time being - to live in our own way and according to our own rules, to live in our own fading India. ↗

— V. S. Naipaul

#arrivals #being #community #disadvantaged #enabled

Books are standing counselors 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. ↗

— Louis Nizer

#always #books #counselors #disinterested #hand

I think there are advantages to different scales of filmmaking. You wouldn't want to do just one thing. ↗

— Christopher Nolan

#different #filmmaking #i #i think #just

That God cannot lie, is no advantage to your argument, because it is no proof that priests can not, or that the Bible does not. ↗

— Thomas Paine

#argument #because #bible #cannot #does

At times like that it's difficult to remember what's at stake, that history is in the making. As a player you feel so cut off sometimes, it can be tough... Which is why it is an enormous advantage to play at home. ↗

— Michel Patini

#cut #difficult #enormous #feel #history

It has adopted the geometry most advantageous to the species or, in other words, the most convenient. ↗

— Henri Poincare

#advantageous #convenient #geometry #in other words #most