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Great Advantage Quotes

Mercy Otis Warren quote: "Great advantages are often attended with great inconveniences,..."
Great advantages are often attended with great inconveniences, and great minds called to severe trials. Mercy Otis Warren
The rule is, jam to-morrow and jam yesterday--but never jam to-day.''It MUST come sometimes to "jam to-day,"' Alice objected.'No, it can't,' said the Queen. 'It's jam every OTHER day: to-day isn't any OTHER day, you know.''I don't understand you,' said Alice. 'It's dreadfully confusing!''That's the effect of living backwards,' the Queen said kindly: 'it always makes one a little giddy at first--''Living backwards!' Alice repeated in great astonishment. 'I never heard of such a thing!''--but... Lewis Carroll
Hesiod quote: "A bad neighbor is as great a calamity as a good one is a great..."
A bad neighbor is as great a calamity as a good one is a great advantage. Hesiod
Still, if history and science have taught us anything, it is that passion and desire are not the same as truth. The human mind evolved to believe in the gods. It did not evolve to believe in biology. Acceptance of the supernatural conveyed a great advantage throughout prehistory when the brain was evolving. Thus it is in sharp contrast to biology, which was developed as a product of the modern age and is not underwritten by genetic algorithms. The uncomfortable truth is that the two... E. O. Wilson
The pounding music, the cheers, the admiration work their way into my blood, and I can’t suppress my excitement. Cinna has given me a great advantage. No one will forget me. Not my look, not my name. Katniss. The girl who was on fire. Suzanne Collins
Henry James quote: "and the great advantage of being a literary woman, was that..."
...and the great advantage of being a literary woman, was that you could go everywhere and do everything. Henry James
F. Scott Fitzgerald quote: "It’s a great advantage not to drink among hard drinking people."
It’s a great advantage not to drink among hard drinking people. F. Scott Fitzgerald
...the supply of uranium in the planet is very limited, and it is feared that it may be used up before the human race is exterminated, but if the practically unlimited supply of hydrogen in the sea could be utilized there would be considerable reason to hope that homo sapiens might put an end to himself, to the great advantage of the other less ferocious animals. Bertrand Russell
The Christian has a great advantage over other men, not by being less fallen than they nor less doomed to live in a fallen world, but by knowing that he IS a fallen man in a fallen world. C. S. Lewis
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
It's a great advantage not to drink among hard-drinking people. You can hold your tongue, and, moreover, you can time any little irregularity of your own so that everybody else is so blind that they don't see or care. F. Scott Fitzgerald
The great advantage of being a writer is that you can spy on people. You're there, listening to every word, but part of you is observing. Everything is useful to a writer, you see - every scrap, even the longest and most boring of luncheon parties. Graham Greene
Paul Getty quote: "What I learned at Oxford has been used to great advantage..."
What I learned at Oxford has been used to great advantage throughout my business career. Paul Getty
I have a great advantage over many of my colleagues inasmuch as my students bring with them to class their own personal knowledge of national, regional, religious, ethnic, occupational, and family folklore traditions. Alan Dundes
Scientists are human, they're as biased as any other group. But they do have one great advantage in that science is a self-correcting process. Cyril Ponnamperuma

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