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Your friends today attach themselves not to you but to your purse or to some advantage they can gain through your father's… — Sathya Sai Baba Copy Share Image
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A man who waits to believe in action before acting is anything you like, but he's not a man of action. It… — Georges Clemenceau Copy Share Image
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Entrepreneursh ip is a great leveller, since having the benefit of a wealthy background or a generous investor isn't always an advantage.… — Richard Branson Copy Share Image
I don't believe in creating dynastic wealth. I don't really believe that in a society that aspires to be meritocratic and that… — Bill Gates Copy Share Image
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It has been handed down in mythical form from earliest times to posterity, that there are gods, and that the divine (Deity)… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
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We put thirty spokes to make a wheel: But it is on the hole in the center that the use of the… — Laozi Copy Share Image
Lucy was suffering from the most grievous wrong which this world has yet discovered: diplomatic advantage had been taken of her sincerity,… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Something of the previous state, however, survives every change. This is called in the language of cybernetics (which took it form the… — Guy Davenport Copy Share Image
Before any man can be considered as a member of civil society, he must be considered as a subject of the Governor… — James Monroe Copy Share Image
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It's about taking advantage of the opportunities you have right now, and right now we're in a position where you call somebody… — Dwyane Wade Copy Share Image
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People come to Cannes just to advertise their films, not with a particular message. But the advantage is that if you go… — Jean-Luc Godard Copy Share Image
Opportunities for fraud are open and they are taken advantage of. The most elementary precautions are neither taken nor even contemplated. The… — Marta Andreasen Copy Share Image
Most people are great at absorbing information. Guerrilla marketing is needed because it gives small businesses a delightfully unfair advantage: certainty in… — Jay Conrad Levinson Copy Share Image
Ferguson argued that British involvement in World War I was unnecessary, far too costly in lives and money for any advantage gained,… — David Harsanyi Copy Share Image
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The decline of manners, the cynical pursuit without shame or restraint of personal advantage and of money characterizes our times, not without… — J. Irwin Miller Copy Share Image
Obama's not down for the civil rights struggle, and he certainly wasn't down for the apartheid struggle, but he's clearly gonna take… — Rush Limbaugh Copy Share Image
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