This capacity to go beyond the factors of conditioning is one of the obvious advantages of the human person. — Paulo Freire Copy Share Image
There is little advantage in pleasing ourselves when we please no one else, for our great self-love is often chastised by the… — Madeleine de Souvre, marquise de Sable Copy Share Image
Nowadays, for the sake of the advantage which is to be gained from the public revenues and from office, men want to… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
I don't like to have anybody tell me to be in a place at certain times. That's kind of the advantage of… — Zach Galifianakis Copy Share Image
We are all small-minded people, creeping about the earth grubbing for our own advantage and making the very mistakes for which we… — Helen Simonson Copy Share Image
I just thank my father and mother, my lucky stars, that I had the advantage of an education in the humanities. — David McCullough Copy Share Image
When you see no present advantage, walk by faith and not by sight. Do God the honor to trust Him when it… — Charles Spurgeon Copy Share Image
Impartial - unable to perceive any promise of personal advantage from espousing either side of a controversy. — Ambrose Bierce Copy Share Image
The circumstance which gives authors an advantage above all these great masters, is this, that they can multiply their originals; or rather,… — Joseph Addison Copy Share Image
I believe the structure of 'House of Leaves' is far more difficult to explain than it is to read. And while I'd… — Mark Z. Danielewski Copy Share Image
There is a consciousness as an agent of one's own destiny as a person in America, there are things that can be… — Michael Eric Dyson Copy Share Image
The appointment of senators by the state legislatures . . . is recommended by the double advantage of favoring a select appointment,… — James Madison Copy Share Image
It is not so much the being exempt from faults as the having overcome them that is an advantage to us; it… — Jonathan Swift Copy Share Image
It is important for practical and psychological reasons to call any reasonably stable group that rears children a family… The advantage of… — Sandra Scarr Copy Share Image
I love cinema. I think the risk of the aesthetics being fixed is compensated by other advantages. Cinema is visually powerful, it… — Yann Martel Copy Share Image
I have never been able to be so allured by the prospect of advantages or so terrified by misfortunes, swayed by honours… — Elizabeth I Copy Share Image
There are some whose Karma is such as to enable them to develop the purely spiritual faculties first of all -- to… — Charles Webster Leadbeater Copy Share Image
It is those who are successful, in other words, who are most likely to be given the kinds of special opportunities that… — Malcolm Gladwell Copy Share Image
There's strong men of wisdom in many different fields. They say 5% of the people are wise and righteous and 10% are… — RZA Copy Share Image
We can form no idea of the millions of pounds that are spent every year in the making of dress in the… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
Religion is an important institution. A nation without religion cannot survive. Yet it is also very important to note that religion is… — Mustafa Kemal Ataturk Copy Share Image
Among those whose reputation is exhausted in a short time by its own luxuriance are the writers who take advantage of present… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
The inhabitants of the ceded territory shall be incorporated in the Union of the United States, and admitted as soon as possible,… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
It's no accident, I think, that tennis uses the language of life. Advantage, service, fault, break, love, the basic elements of tennis… — Andre Agassi Copy Share Image
One of the greatest advantages of the totalitarian elites of the twenties and thirties was to turn any statement of fact into… — Hannah Arendt Copy Share Image
Reporters may be friendly-but if you get through life without having a reporter as a friend, that may be an advantage. If… — Roger Ailes Copy Share Image
The rare individuals who unselfishly try to serve others have an enormous advantage-they have little competition. — Andrew Carnegie Copy Share Image
I am wired like a CEO and care a great deal about the bottom line, but I care about my customers even… — Gary Vaynerchuk Copy Share Image
Although I have not done too many films as a child artiste, the advantage is that you are familiar with the world… — Nazriya Nazim Copy Share Image
I do ride contend against the advantages of distrust. In the world we live in, it is but too necessary. Some of… — Edmund Burke Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
Politeness is one of those advantages which we never estimate rightly but by the inconvenience of its loss. — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
The advantage of the internet is that it has taken away the charade of politics. China has heard of democracy and people… — Marilyn Manson Copy Share Image
Nothing is pure and entire of a piece. All advantages are attended with disadvantages. A universal compensation prevails in all conditions of… — David Hume Copy Share Image
First, by 2020, North America will be energy independent by taking full advantage of our oil and coal and gas and nuclear… — Mitt Romney Copy Share Image
Life is getting better, but that won't stop a war if politicians and business people decide it's to their advantage to have… — Octavia Butler Copy Share Image
The advantage is I have my family with me all the time. When your daughter takes her first steps or says her… — Larry Dixon Copy Share Image
Other people have to understand where we are coming from, including our allies. Our allies have taken advantage of us. — Donald Trump Copy Share Image
I quietly declare war with the State, after my fashion, though I will still make use and get advantage of her as… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
An enterprise that is constantly exploring new horizons is likely to have a competitive advantage in attracting and retaining talent. — Gary Hamel Copy Share Image
