#vantage

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

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No mother would ever willingly sacrifice her sons for territorial gain, for economic advantage, for ideology. ↗

— Ronald Reagan

#economic #ever #gain #her #ideology

A small child from a developing country has the advantage, from a very early age, of having access to toys which structure his mind, which constitute a sure advantage over the little African child who has never even held a modern toy. ↗

— Abdoulaye Wade

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But I think the image that's thrown out on television is a bad image. Because you see players who want to imitate hip-hop stars. And the NBA is taking advantage of the situation. ↗

— Oscar Robertson

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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

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The great advantage of being in a rut is that when one is in a rut, one knows exactly where one is. ↗

— Arnold Bennett

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A woman who gives any advantage to a man may expect a lover but will sooner or later find a tyrant. ↗

— George Byron

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When a man is discontented with himself, it has one advantage - that it puts him into an excellent frame of mind for making a bargain. ↗

— Laurence Sterne

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Some minds seem almost to create themselves, springing up under every disadvantage and working their solitary but irresistible way through a thousand obstacles. ↗

— Washington Irving

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No matter how full a reservoir of maxims one may possess, and no matter how good one's sentiments may be, if one has not taken advantage of every concrete opportunity to act, one's character may remain entirely unaffected for the better. ↗

— William James

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