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Quotes About Advantages

Why does no one speak of the cultural advantages of the country? For example, is a well groomed, ecologically kept, sustainably fertile farm any less cultural, any less artful, than paintings of fat angels on church ceilings?
~ Gene Logsdon
The survival of the fittest is a slow method for measuring advantages," Turing argued in 1950. "The experimenter, by the exercise of intelligence, should be able to speed it up.
~ George B. Dyson
Sola scriptura both set and limited the terms for discussing slavery and gave apologists for the institution great advantages.
~ George C. Rable
It is a paradox that the more egalitarian society becomes, the more important an individual's genes will be. Where opportunity is completely open – should a child's background ever become entirely irrelevant in their attainment – innate advantages will still create division.
~ Ira Levin
People with advantages don't tend to want to give them up. If you see it as a zero-sum game, then it will never change. If only the people who are disadvantaged speak out, then it's not enough. I don't want to overshadow their voices, but I want to support.
~ Stan Van Gundy
Of all the advantages which come to any young man ... poverty is the greatest.
~ Josiah G. Holland
Nothing is pure and entire of a piece. All advantages are attended with disadvantages. A universal compensation prevails in all conditions of being and existence.
~ David Hume
Demagogues and agitators are very unpleasant, but they are incidents to a free and constitutional country, and you must put up with these inconveniences or do without many important advantages.
~ Benjamin Disraeli
Too happy would you be, did ye but know your own advantages!
~ Virgil
One of the advantages and disadvantages of WCW had to deal with was being a member of Turner Broadcasting.
~ Eric Bischoff
Twenty years ago, I was part of a movement of millions of people who were going after freedom. But today, they look and they say, 'What are the advantages of freedom?' So far, it's the vote and maybe, in certain places, lack of police harassment. You can live anywhere you want and do anything you want - if you have the means.
~ Hugh Masekela
The most beautiful girl in the room not only gets the guy, she lands the job, gets better service at a restaurant, rises through the social ranks before her friends. Doors open for the beautiful woman that may not for a female who is twice as smart but half as beautiful.
~ Amanda de Cadenet
Few would venture to deny the advantages of temperance in increasing the efficiency of a nation at war.
~ William Lyon MacKenzie
I was raised with all the advantages except a backbone.
~ Susan Elizabeth Phillips
It has been remarked (by a lady infinitely cleverer than the present author) how kindly disposed the world in general feels to young people who either die or marry. Imagine then the interest that surrounded Miss Wintertowne! No young lady ever had such advantages before: for she died upon the Tuesday, was raised to life in the early hours of Wednesday morning, and was married upon the Thursday; which some people thought too much excitement for one week.
~ Susanna Clarke
no matter his advantages, Hilarius always seemed to feel oppressed.
~ Suzanne Collins
It may be that apartheid brings such stupendous economic advantages to countries that they would sooner have apartheid than permit its destruction.
~ Oliver Tambo
b)   Before forming your "Master Mind" alliance, decide what advantages and benefits you may offer the individual members of your group, in return for their cooperation. No one will work indefinitely without some form of compensation. No intelligent person will either request or expect another to work without adequate compensation, although this may not always be in the form of money.
~ Napoleon Hill
Do not confuse the word "belief" with the word "wish." The two are not the same. Everyone is capable of "wishing" for financial, material, or spiritual advantages, but the element of faith is the only sure power by which a wish may be translated into a belief, and a belief into reality.
~ Napoleon Hill
An intelligent follower has many advantages, among them the opportunity to acquire knowledge from his leader.
~ Napoleon Hill
developers are getting the benefits others pay for.
~ Nassim Nicholas Taleb
But the natives soon learned that most of the British were terrible shots, from lack of practice—their guns were little more than noisemakers. Even for a crack shot, an unrifled, early seventeenth-century gun had fewer advantages over a longbow than may be supposed.
~ Charles C. Mann
I'm very sensitive about being held up as some sort of example. I don't consider myself any sort of role model at all. I have great advantages over many other working women, and my schedule allows me more time with my kids than many working women have.
~ Jane Pauley
Las empresas capitalistas compran insumos de otras que tienen menores costes que ellas para producir esos mismos insumos, y venden su propia producción al intermediario que mejor puede llevar a cabo su distribución. Sin embargo, una economía socialista puede prescindir de las ventajas de la especialización, y además por motivos muy racionales, debido a las muy diferentes circunstancias bajo las que operan.
~ Thomas Sowell