#vantage

The world's urban poor and the illiterate are going to be increasingly disadvantaged and are in danger of being left behind. The web has added a new dimension to the gap between the first world and the developing world. We have to start talking about a human right to connect. ↗

— Tim Berners Lee

#added #behind #being #between #connect

We need improvement in the style of performance. There is no more advantage in a musician who plays and conducts than in one who is only a beater of rhythm. ↗

— Franz Liszt

#beater #conducts #improvement #more #musician

If whiteness were of no particular advantage, then having a fuller color wheel of skin tones would be purely a matter of celebration. But whiteness - just a drop of it - does still carry privilege. You learn that very young in America. ↗

— Eric Liu

#america #carry #celebration #color #does

The two big advantages I had at birth were to have been born wise and to have been born in poverty. ↗

— Sophia Loren

#been #big #birth #born #had

It's being in the right place at the right time and taking advantage of your opportunities. ↗

— Lee Majors

#being #opportunities #place #right #right place

The advantage of the internet is that it has taken away the charade of politics. China has heard of democracy and people know about certain concepts they wouldn't have previously. ↗

— Marilyn Manson

#advantage #away #certain #china #concepts

I certainly have an advantage over some because I can pass on so much from the World Cups I played in. ↗

— Diego Maradona

#because #certainly #cups #i #i can

By concentrating on what is good in people, by appealing to their idealism and their sense of justice, and by asking them to put their faith in the future, socialists put themselves at a severe disadvantage. ↗

— Ian Mcewan

#asking #concentrating #disadvantage #faith #future

There have been people who have tried to take advantage of me. They want to be linked to me just because I'm Ethel Merman. ↗

— Ethel Merman

#because #been #i #just #just because

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