#vantage

A player is said to have the opposition when he can place his King directly in front of the adverse King, with only one square between them. This is often an important advantage in ending games. ↗

— Howard Staunton

#adverse #between #directly #ending #front

Native Americans had only stone and wooden weapons and no animals that could be ridden. Those military advantages repeatedly enabled troops of a few dozen mounted Spaniards to defeat Indian armies numbering in the thousands. ↗

— Jared Diamond

#armies #could #defeat #dozen #enabled

I assess the power of a will by how much resistance, pain, torture it endures and knows how to turn to its advantage. ↗

— Friedrich Nietzsche

#assess #endures #how #i #knows

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

For me it came from the material. It was so well written and brought the opportunity to work with great actors. And of course the opportunity to 'mince about' was an added element that I wanted to take advantage of! ↗

— Dwayne Johnson

#added #advantage #brought #came #course

I'd rather wear jewels in my hair than anywhere else. The face should have the advantage of this brilliance. ↗

— Hedy Lamarr

#anywhere #brilliance #else #face #hair

One advantage of talking to yourself is that you know at least somebody's listening. ↗

— Franklin P. Jones

#know #least #listening #somebody #talking

Out of labor's struggle in Arizona came better conditions for the workers, who must everywhere, at all times, under advantage and disadvantage work out their own salvation. ↗

— Mary Harris Jones

#arizona #better #came #conditions #disadvantage

Even if you're playing Brahms or a Beethoven concerto, you've got to have a different vantage point, slightly, each time. ↗

— Nigel Kennedy

#brahms #concerto #different #each #even

As to the advantages of temperance in the training of the armed forces and of its benefits to the members of the forces themselves, there can be no doubt in the world. ↗

— William Lyon Mackenzie King

#armed #armed forces #benefits #doubt #forces