#vantage

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

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I think that to a very great extent we are partners with the divine in this enterprise called history. That is an ongoing relationship, and there is absolutely no guarantee that things will automatically work out to our best advantage. ↗

— Chaim Potok

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The only advantage of not being too good a housekeeper is that your guests are so pleased to feel how very much better they are. ↗

— Eleanor Roosevelt

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It has given me a global vantage point, being the daughter of immigrants from China, who had nothing when they came here. And now I am leading a company. It speaks to something deep in me, the concept that you don't have to start with anything. ↗

— Andrea Jung

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We also never undercut representatives' prices. A representative will always be able to sell the discounts in our core business, which are not offered at retail. So it's never more advantageous to buy there. ↗

— Andrea Jung

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Half the world is composed of idiots, the other half of people clever enough to take indecent advantage of them. ↗

— Walter Kerr

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Racism is a way to gain economic advantage at the expense of others. Slavery and plantations may be gone, but racism still allows us to regard those who may keep us from financial gain as less than equals. ↗

— Alveda King

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The advantage of the emotions is that they lead us astray. ↗

— Oscar Wilde

#astray #emotions #lead #us

One of the advantages of the book's having been out there for more than a quarter century is that there's been time for people to report back on what it's done for them. ↗

— Andrew Tobias

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There is, indeed, no single quality of the cat that man could not emulate to his advantage. ↗

— Carl Van Vechten

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