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Advantage Quotes (page 18)

Mark Twain quote: "Adam and Eve had many advantages, but the principal one was..."
Adam and Eve had many advantages, but the principal one was that they escaped teething. Mark Twain
The advantage of living is not measured by length, but by use; some men have lived long, and lived little; attend to it while you are in it. It lies in your will, not in the number of years, for you to have lived enough. Michel de Montaigne
Lao Tzu quote: "There are few in the world who attain to the teaching without..."
There are few in the world who attain to the teaching without words, and the advantage arising from non-action. Lao Tzu
A person of your century: Great persons are of their time. Not all were born into a period worthy of them, and many so born failed to benefit by it. Some merited a better century, for all that is good does not always triumph. Fashions have their periods and even the greatest virtues, their styles. But the philosopher, being ageless, has one advantage: Should this not prove the right century, many to follow will. Baltasar Gracian
I've never understood all this fuss people make about the dawn. I've seen a few and they're never as good as the photographs, which have the additional advantage of being things you can look at when you're in the right frame of mind, which is usually around lunchtime. Douglas Adams
A man has the advantage of being delivered early from the home point of view, and before Selden left for college he had learned that there are as many different ways of going without money as of spending it. Edith Wharton
Steven Moffat quote: "All lives end. All hearts are broken. Caring is not an advantage."
All lives end. All hearts are broken. Caring is not an advantage. Steven Moffat
Aeschylus quote: "There is advantage in the wisdom won from pain."
There is advantage in the wisdom won from pain. Aeschylus
Our great democracies still tend to think that a stupid man is more likely to be honest than a clever man, and our politicians take advantage of this prejudice by pretending to be even more stupid than nature has made them. Bertrand Russell
it would be an undoubted advantage if we were to leave God out altogether and honestly admit the purely human origin of all the regulations and precepts of civilization. Along with their pretended sanctity, these commandments and laws would lose their rigidity and unchangeableness as well. People could understand that they are made, not so much to rule them as, on the contrary, to serve their interests; and they would adopt a more friendly attitude to them, and instead of aiming at their... Sigmund Freud
Those who champion democracy, but make a fetish of never accepting anything they don't agree with -- what advantage do they see in democracy? William Stafford
Tom Robbins quote: "Whatever goes wrong can be used to your advantage, providing..."
Whatever goes wrong can be used to your advantage, providing it goes wrong enough. Tom Robbins
Plutarch quote: "To the Dolphin alone, beyond all other, nature has granted..."
...To the Dolphin alone, beyond all other, nature has granted what the best philosophers seek: friendship for no advantage Plutarch
Adaptation is one of the great advantages to being born and bred in Jersey. We're simply not bested by bad air or tainted water. We're like that catfish with lungs. Take us out of our environment and we can grow whatever body parts we need to survive. After Jersey the rest of the country's a piece of cake. You want to send someone into a fallout zone? Get him from Jersey. He'll be fine. Janet Evanovich
In truth, laws are always useful to those with possessions and harmful to those who have nothing; from which it follows that the social state is advantageous to men only when all possess something and none has too much. Jean-Jacques Rousseau

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