Advantages Quotes

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A people... who are possessed of the spirit of commerce, who see and who will pursue their advantages may achieve almost anything. — George Washington
Competition is the most promising means to achieve and secure prosperity. It alone enables people in their role of consumer to gain from economic progress.… — Ludwig Erhard
Gradually, they learned that politics is fundamentally a great business, a struggling and a haggling for advantages, over whose lap collects the most rewards cast… — Friedrich Naumann
Society is purely and solely a continual series of exchanges... And the greatest eulogy we can give it, for exchange is an admirable transaction, in… — Antoine Destutt de Tracy
We have many advantages in the fight against global warming, but time is not one of them. Instead of idly debating the precise extent of… — John McCain
It is not always the most brilliant speculations nor the choice of the most exotic materials that is most profitable. I prefer Monsieur de Reaumur… — Noel-Antoine Pluche
Patriotism is "a very definite feeling of preference for one's own people or State above all other peoples and States, and a consequent wish to… — Leo Tolstoy
The danger to which the success of revolutions is most exposed, is that of attempting them before the principles on which they proceed, and the… — Thomas Paine
If the minds of women were enlightened and improved, the domestic work would be more frequently refreshed by intelligent conversation, a means of edification now… — Sarah Moore Grimke
I shall rejoin myself to my native country, with new attachments, and with exaggerated esteem for its advantages; for though there is less wealth there,… — Thomas Jefferson
The State governments possess inherent advantages, which will ever give them an influence and ascendancy over the National Government, and will for ever preclude the… — Alexander Hamilton
Among the numerous advantages promised by a well-constructed Union, none deserves to be more accurately developed than its tendency to break and control the violence… — James Madison
One cannot avoid a certain feeling of disgust, when one observes the actions of man displayed on the great stage of the world. Wisdom is… — Immanuel Kant
The ordaining of laws in favor of one part of the nation, to the prejudice and oppression of another, is certainly the most erroneous and… — Benjamin Franklin
Noblesse oblige; or, superior advantages bind you to larger generosity. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
A woman might claim to retain some of the child's faculties, although very limited and defused, simply because she has not been encouraged to learn… — Germaine Greer
Pride is seldom delicate, it will please itself with very mean advantages; and envy feels not its own happiness, but when it may be compared… — Samuel Johnson
To say that people would cease to come to California if they would have to pay more taxes is to underestimate the advantages of being… — Warren Beatty
But as far as my work is concerned, I see no impediment, and various advantages, to being deaf. — Stephanie Beacham
History has blessed us with all the freedom and advantages of multiculturalism. But it has also blessed us, because of the accident of our origins,… — Charles Krauthammer

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