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Quotes About Disadvantages

Now, in this case, I, who am the right owner, lie under two great disadvantages: first, my lawyer, being practised almost from his cradle in defending falsehood, is quite out of his element when he would be an advocate for justice, which is an unnatural office he always attempts with great awkwardness, if not with ill-will.
~ Jonathan Swift
This example highlights two aspects of choice that the standard model of indifference curves does not predict. First, tastes are not fixed; they vary with the reference point. Second, the disadvantages of a change loom larger than its advantages, inducing a bias that favors the status quo.
~ Daniel Kahneman
Nothing indicates the soundness of a man's judgment so much as knowing how to choose between two disadvantages.
~ Jean Francois Paul de Gondi
It is not by regretting what is irreparable that true work is to be done, but by making the best of what we are. It is not by complaining that we have not the right tools, but by using well the tools we have. What we are, and where we are is God's providential arrangement - God's doing, though it may be man's misdoing; and the manly and the wise way is to look your disadvantages in the face, and see what can be made our of them.
~ Will Schwalbe
But there are certain disadvantages that may seem the necessary result of democratical equality. In political society it is reasonable to suppose that the wise will be outnumbered by the unwise, and it will be inferred 'that the welfare of the whole will therefore be at the mercy of ignorance and folly.
~ William Godwin
Poorer children grow up with more stress and more disruption, and these disadvantages produce effects on the brain. Researchers often use dull tests to see who can focus attention and stay on task. Children raised in the top income quintile were two-and-a-half times more likely to score well on these tests than students raised in the bottom quintile.
~ David Brooks
I think, Sir, my potential got a hell of a thumping when I happened to be born where I was born with the parents I got'. Your potential boy, is what you achieve regardless of unavoidable disadvantages, what what you can conveniently call upon as an excuse for intellectual lethary, or the lesser, and in most cases forgivable, crime of failure.
~ David Logan
Every great idea exerts, on first appearing, a tyrannical influence: Hence, the advantages it brings are turned all too soon into disadvantages.
~ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
My disadvantages will tire him as they would any reasonable man of small expectations." - Jane Adams
~ Noorilhuda, The Governess
Would it have been an improvement of the plan, to have united the Supreme Court with the Senate, in the formation of the court of impeachments? This union would certainly have been attended with several advantages; but would they not have been overbalanced by the signal disadvantage, already stated, arising from the agency of the same judges in the double prosecution to which the offender would be liable?
~ Alexander Hamilton
Television opens up some bloody great doors. That's the plus. The minus is the attention it brings.
~ Guy Martin
Nothing is more admirable than the fortitude with which millionaires tolerate the disadvantages of their wealth.
~ Rex Stout
The combination of economic inequality and economic segregation is deadly. It reinforces the advantages of those at the top while exacerbating and perpetuating the disadvantages of those at the bottom. Taken together, they shape not just inequality of economic resources, but also a more permanent and dysfunctional inequality of opportunity.
~ Richard Florida
Nothing is more admirable than the fortitude with which millionaires tolerate the disadvantages of their wealth.
~ Jean Rostand
In the beginning, I thought mobile search was not much different from Web search. It's just a smaller screen, a slower speed; it's all the bad things. When I thought about mobile Internet, it's all the disadvantages.
~ Robin Li
Regarding KERS, I have mixed feelings. As I am a tall and relatively heavy person I have disadvantages regarding the weight and consequently the weight distribution of the car. But on the other hand KERS could be a big advantage because of the boost.
~ Robert Kubica
Let us consider under what disadvantages Science has hitherto labored before we pronounce thus confidently on her progress.
~ Henry David Thoreau
The more it (vaccination) is supported by public authorities, the more will its dangers and disadvantages be concealed or denied.
~ M. Beddow Bayly
And I'd add that every good thing has its disadvantages, and the disadvantage of love is precisely that it leaves room for nothing else, not even the prudence of ferrets.
~ Angélica Gorodischer
You want to find the balance of acknowledging privilege and acknowledging the disadvantages that you have.
~ Lolly Adefope
A media-only campaign has its advantages, but it also has its very severe disadvantages.
~ Ken Cuccinelli
I think starting a cinema career late in life has more advantages than disadvantages.
~ Luke Evans
The internet has been a boon and a curse for teenagers.
~ J. K. Rowling
Here the question is whether growing up in a poor neighborhood imposes any additional handicaps. The answer is yes.
~ Robert D. Putnam