Advantages Quotes
434 Advantages quotes by 355 unique authors
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Time isn't the enemy. Fear of change is. Accept that nothing lasts forever and you'll start to appreciate the advantages of whatever age you are…
— Oprah Winfrey
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Present opportunities are neglected, and attainable good is slighted, by minds busied in extensive ranges and intent upon future advantages.
— Samuel Johnson
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One of the few advantages to not being beautiful is that one usually gets better-looking as one gets older. I am, in fact, at this…
— Nora Ephron
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The presence of a body of well-instructed men, who have not to labor for their daily bread, is important to a degree which cannot be…
— Charles Darwin
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An artist who brings to his work a mind tolerably furnished with the general principles of art, and a taste formed upon the works of…
— Joshua Reynolds
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It's the old idea that the process of evolution is some push in the direction of greater complexity--in particular greater intellectual complexity. In one twig…
— Steven Pinker
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A state is a perfect body of free men, united together to enjoy common rights and advantages.
— Hugo Grotius
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As to the advantages of temperance in the training of the armed forces and of its benefits to the members of the forces themselves, there…
— William Lyon Mackenzie King
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During the last dozen years the tales of suppression of free assemblage, free press, and free speech, by local authorities or the State operating under…
— Edward Alsworth Ross
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The man of great wealth owes a peculiar obligation to the state because he derives special advantages from the mere existence of government.
— Theodore Roosevelt
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A true master of politics is able to calculate, down to the smallest fraction, the advantages to which he may put his very faults.
— Napoleon Bonaparte
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Many who confess their venial sins out of custom and concern for order but without thought of amendment remain burdened with them for their whole…
— Saint Francis de Sales
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Yosemite Park is a place of rest, a refuge from the roar and dust and weary, nervous, wasting work of the lowlands, in which one…
— John Muir
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With these vast advantages, ordinary and extraordinary, one would have supposed the North would have been content, and would have at least respected the security…
— Robert Toombs
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It is a seldom proffered argument as to the advantages of a free press that it has a major function in keeping the government itself…
— Walter Cronkite
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I have no idea what advantages I truly get, but I know people talk to me and give me time of day because they like…
— Cameron Russell
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Cities with all their advantages have something hostile to liberal learning, the seductions are so subtle and accost the senses so openly on all sides.
— Amos Bronson Alcott
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Ideas first and last: yet it is not till these are formulated and utilized that the devotees of the common sense discern their value and…
— Amos Bronson Alcott
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Nothing makes us better understand what trifling things Providence thinks He bestows on men in granting them wealth, money, dignities, and other advantages, than the…
— Jean de la Bruyere
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It is difficult for a proud man ever to forgive a person who has found him at fault, and who has good grounds for complaining…
— Jean de la Bruyere
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It has been the resolution of mankind in all ages of the world. No people, no age, ever threw away the fruits of past wisdom,…
— William Hazlitt
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With regard to Banks, they have taken too deep and too wide a root in social transactions, to be got rid of altogether, if that…
— James Madison
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I think that the sense of inefficacy and inevitability comes not from thinking the rich are going to have all the educational advantages. No, I…
— Paul Solman
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Human felicity is produced not as much by great pieces of good fortune that seldom happen as by little advantages that occur every day.
— Benjamin Franklin
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Everybody's going through a lot of stress these days, no matter how well off you are and how many advantages you have, it's a stressful…
— Chris Frantz
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