#vantage

If we help an educated man's daughter to go to Cambridge are we not forcing her to think not about education but about war? - not how she can learn, but how she can fight in order that she might win the same advantages as her brothers? ↗

— Virginia Woolf

#advantages #brothers #cambridge #daughter #educated

A decision by the Supreme Court to subject Guantanamo to judicial review would eliminate these advantages. ↗

— John Yoo

#court #decision #eliminate #guantanamo #judicial

Who is the most sensible person? The one who finds what is to their own advantage in all that happens to them. ↗

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

#finds #happens #most #own #person

I suppose I have had more advantages and privileges than most of you, who are slaves have ever known, and I believe more than many white people have enjoyed, for which I desire to bless God, and pray that he may bless those who have given them to me. ↗

— Jupiter Hammon

#believe #bless #desire #enjoyed #ever

I do a lot of work with the Dyslexia Institute because, for people with dyslexia who do not have parental support, it is a huge disadvantage. I was fortunate because my Mum was a teacher and she taught me to work hard. ↗

— Susan Hampshire

#disadvantage #dyslexia #fortunate #hard #huge

The Russians often took advantage of Lend-Lease. ↗

— W. Averell Harriman

#lend-lease #often #russians #took

It takes a certain level of aspiration before one can take advantage of opportunities that are clearly offered. ↗

— Michael Harrington

#aspiration #before #certain #certain level #clearly

It takes a minute for me to let my guard down, but once I do and I get to know someone, I'm very open, very trusting. Some might say too trusting, because considering the amount of money that can be made from selling gossip, I could be very easily taken advantage of. ↗

— Anne Hathaway

#amount #because #considering #could #down

Today we're dealing with metropolitan Shanghai, metropolitan New Delhi or Paris. If we're competing at that level, our diversity, that richness of people coming from so many different backgrounds, is one of our greatest advantages. ↗

— John Hickenlooper

#backgrounds #coming #competing #dealing #delhi

We are a big country, with lots of advantages and history. We are proud to be French. We have to call on patriotism at this time... to ask for an effort in the battle against debt. ↗

— Francois Hollande

#against #ask #battle #big #big country