Advantageous Quotes

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The problem to solve is, whether a single or a double government would be most advantageous; and, in considering that point, I am met by… — Richard Cobden
There is no reason why agreement on particular points should not be both possible and advantageous to the so-called neutrals and to one or more… — Hjalmar Branting
[T]he different branches of Arithmetic - Ambition [G]eometry is not true, it is advantageous. — Henri Poincare
We're all complex human beings, and if some of that complexity shows through, I think it's advantageous for the movie. — Jan de Bont
[The] aim is not so much to seek battle as to seek a strategic situation so advantageous that if it does not of itself produce… — B. H. Liddell Hart
One may define flattery as a base companionship which is most advantageous to the flatterer. — Theophrastus
Do not give to thy friends the most agreeable counsels, but the most advantageous. — Henry Theodore Tuckerman
Part of the advantage, and part of the result of trying to be a producer and director, are the practical things, you find. It's so… — Campbell Scott
DISABUSE, v.t. To present your neighbor with another and better error than the one which he has deemed advantageous to embrace. — Ambrose Bierce
One of the things that the Affordable Care Act has done, which is advantageous to consumers, is created marketplaces, where people can go online and… — David Blumenthal
Accuracy is, in every case, advantageous to beauty, and just reasoning to delicate sentiment. In vain would we exalt the one by depreciating the other. — David Hume
Difference of opinion is advantageous in religion. The several sects perform the office of a Censor - over each other. — Thomas Jefferson
We also never undercut representatives' prices. A representative will always be able to sell the discounts in our core business, which are not offered at… — Andrea Jung
There's something advantageous about having people underestimate your intellect, insomuch as a lot of things are revealed to you. They assume you don't know what… — Ashton Kutcher
Habits in writing as in life are only useful if they are broken as soon as they cease to be advantageous. — W. Somerset Maugham
To establish any mode to abolish war, however advantageous it might be to Nations, would be to take from such Government the most lucrative of… — Thomas Paine
One geometry cannot be more true than another; it can only be more convenient. Geometry is not true, it is advantageous. — Robert M. Pirsig
A wise man thinks it more advantageous not to join the battle than to win. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld
What is morally wrong can never be advantageous, even when it enables you to make some gain that you believe to be to your advantage.… — Marcus Tullius Cicero
In truth, laws are always useful to those with possessions and harmful to those who have nothing; from which it follows that the social state… — Jean-Jacques Rousseau

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