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Baseball has the great advantage over cricket of being sooner ended. -- George Bernard Shaw
The great advantage about telling the truth is that nobody ever believes it. -- Dorothy L. Sayers
It is a great advantage for a system of philosophy to be substantially true. -- George Santayana
What I learned at Oxford has been used to great advantage throughout my business career. -- Paul Getty
The great advantage of a hotel is that it is a refuge from home life. -- George Bernard Shaw
A bad neighbor is as great a calamity as a good one is a great advantage. -- Hesiod
The great advantage of the Lib Dems is precisely that no-one knows what they stand for. -- Tony Blair
The great advantage to labor arising out of co-operative effort has been apparent to me for many years. -- Leland Stanford
The great advantage of being human is that we can employ rational thought and resolve to change our circumstances. -- Mariella Frostrup
The great advantage of being in a rut is that when one is in a rut, one knows exactly where one is. -- Arnold Bennett
Although science and technology open up boundless opportunities, they also present great perils because Satan employs these marvelous discoveries to his great advantage. -- James E. Faust
Experience is a great advantage. The problem is that when you get the experience, you're too damned old to do anything about it. -- Jimmy Connors
The great advantage of a novel is you can put in whatever comes into your head - it has the same shape as the human brain. -- Michel Houellebecq
Fame is a very confusing thing, because you are recognized by a lot of people that you've never seen before, and they're at a great advantage. -- Scott Hamilton
The great advantage of having a bear as a central character is that he can combine the innocence of a child with the sophistication of an adult. -- Michael Bond
A great advantage of a large corporation is supposed to be the large pool of talent in which its leaders can find and groom high achievers and successors. -- Margaret Heffernan
There is a great advantage in training under unfavorable conditions. It is better to train under bad conditions, for the difference is then a tremendous relief in a race. -- Emil Zatopek
As a result, the highly civilized man can endure incomparably more than the savage, whether of moral or physical strain. Being better able to control himself under all circumstances, he has a great advantage over the savage. -- Lafcadio Hearn
I really think that there was a great advantage in many ways to being a woman. I think we are a lot better at personal relationships, and then have the capability obviously of telling it like it is when it's necessary. -- Madeleine Albright
In our passage from the Cape of Good Hope the winds were mostly from the westward with very boisterous weather: but one great advantage that this season of the year has over the summer months is in being free from fogs. -- William Bligh
Technology has a great advantage in that we are capable of creating dinosaurs and show them on the screen even though they are extinct 65 million years. All of a sudden, we have a fantastic tool that is as good as dreams are. -- Werner Herzog
Cleopatra had one great advantage. She lived at a time when female sovereigns were not anomalies. And when women enjoyed rights they would not again enjoy for another 2,000 years. You could call them early feminists, if I may use a dirty word. -- Stacy Schiff
The great advantage of being a writer is that you can spy on people. You're there, listening to every word, but part of you is observing. Everything is useful to a writer, you see - every scrap, even the longest and most boring of luncheon parties. -- Graham Greene
It is sad that so many designers don't know how to make. CAD software can make a bad design look palatable! It is sad that four years can be spent on a 3D design course without making anything! People who are great at designing and making have a great advantage. -- Jonathan Ive
I know that BMW is now a sponsor of the USOC - of the United States Olympic Committee - so they offer the use of their aerodynamic speed-tunnel for testing and such for the athletes, which is a great advantage. But to be honest with you, I'd rather have a free car! -- Apolo Ohno
For Sony, owning a studio is a gamble and probably a pretty good one, now that in the broadband era having content is a great advantage when you sell devices that in a ubiquitous world of distribution can actually show programs, movies, content directly to the consumer. So that you actually create, in a digital world, real synergy. -- Howard Stringer
Great is the advantage of patience. -- John Tillotson
Design is the last great competitive advantage. -- Seth Godin
Our great social and political advantage is opportunity. -- George William Curtis
It's a great advantage not to drink among hard drinking people. -- F. Scott Fitzgerald
Fools have a great advantage over the wise; they are always self-satisfied. -- Napoleon Bonaparte
Exploiting a sustainable competitive advantage is great... If you can find it. -- Rita Gunther McGrath
Music has a great advantage: without mentioning anything, it can say everything. -- Ilya Ehrenburg
To turn an obstacle to one's advantage is a great step towards victory -- French Proverb
Every little advantage is of great moment when men have to come to blows. -- Niccolo Machiavelli
It is a great advantage for a system of philosophy to be substantially true. -- George Santayana
Great opportunity is only as good as your preparation to take advantage of it. -- Tom Black
A lawyer's dealings should be just and fair; Honesty shines with great advantage there. -- William Cowper
Calmness is great advantage; he that lets Another chafe, may warm him at his fire. -- George Herbert
What I learned at Oxford has been used to great advantage throughout my business career. -- Paul Getty
The great advantage in noble parentage is that enables one to endure poverty more easily. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
He that would be a great man must learn to turn every accident to some advantage. -- Francois de La Rochefoucauld
The great advantage of the Lib Dems is precisely that no-one knows what they stand for -- Tony Blair
The great advantage of living in a large family is that early lesson of life's essential unfairness. -- Nancy Mitford
The fool has one great advantage over a man of sense; he is always satisfied with himself. -- Napoleon Bonaparte
The great advantage of a new friend is that we have not yet found one another out. -- Mason Cooley
We need to take advantage of the opportunity we have now to create a vision and become great. -- Christine Gregoire
The great advantage of telling the truth is that one is so much more likely to sound convincing -- Susan Howatch
...and the great advantage of being a literary woman, was that you could go everywhere and do everything. -- Henry James
A great advantage I had when I started The Body Shop was that I had never been to business school. -- Anita Roddick
The massive migration from dumb phones to smart phones is a great opportunity for young companies to take advantage of. -- Adam Dell
The law on the side of freedom is of great advantage only when there is power to make that law respected. -- Frederick Douglass
I felt there's a wealth in Jewish tradition, a great inheritance. I'd be a jerk not to take advantage of it. -- Herman Wouk
There were very few women comics when I started out doing stand-up. But I always saw that as a great advantage. -- Carol Leifer
To this hour, the great science and duty of politics is lowered by the petty leaven of small and personal advantage ... -- Letitia Elizabeth Landon
I was a disadvantaged child from a non-educated family, yet I had the advantage of being in the company of great teachers. -- A. P. J. Abdul Kalam
The greatest advantage of being First Lady is the opportunity it presents to truly make a difference on issues of great importance. -- Ann Romney
[Napoleon has now] surpassed...Alexander & Caesar, not to mention the great advantage he has over them in the Cause he fights in. -- Charles James Fox
It is no great advantage to possess a quick wit, if it is not correct; the perfection is not speed but uniformity. -- Luc de Clapiers
It is of great advantage that man should know his station, and not imagine that the whole universe exists only for him. -- Maimonides
The great advantage of the sort of education I had was precisely that it made practically no mark upon those subjected to it. -- Malcolm Muggeridge
Great opportunity is all around you and it will inspire you to either take advantage of it or deny that it is there. -- Ernie J Zelinski
Every great political campaign rewrites the rules; devising a new way to win is what gives campaigns a comparative advantage against their foes. -- John Podhoretz
Scientists are human-they're as biased as any other group. But they do have one great advantage in that science is a self-correcting process. -- Cyril Ponnamperuma
Making mistakes isn't enough to become great. You must also admit the mistake, and then learn how to turn that mistake into an advantage. -- Robert Kiyosaki
I had the great advantage of a mother who used to tell me the most beautiful years of a woman's life are ages 35 to 45. -- Amy Grant
With my size and speed, my ability to make moves and great vision, I'm sometimes feel like it's an unfair advantage over the defense. -- LaDainian Tomlinson
Statistical projections which speak to the senses without fatiguing the mind, possess the advantage of fixing the attention on a great number of important facts. -- Alexander von Humboldt
Critics must excuse me if I compare them to certain animals called asses, who, by gnawing vines, originally taught the great advantage of pruning them. -- William Shenstone
In the marketplace, small businesses are the face and voice of humanity, which provides them with a great advantage in the Age of the Customer. -- Jim Blasingame
There is little advantage in pleasing ourselves when we please no one else, for our great self-love is often chastised by the scorn of others. -- Madeleine de Souvre, marquise de ...
Nothing endures unless it has first been transposed into a myth, and the great advantage of myths is that they are ladies with portable roots. -- Anais Nin
Was not this ... what we spoke of as the great advantage of wisdom -- to know what is known and what is unknown to us? -- Plato
I was born with a silver microphone in my mouth, and that was an advantage. My father wrote books and was also a great broadcaster. -- Jonathan Dimbleby
The Devil has a great advantage against us inasmuch as he has a strong bastion and bulwark against us in our own flesh and blood. -- Martin Luther
The late William Jennings Bryan, L.L.D., always had one great advantage in controversy; he was never burdened with an understanding of his opponent's case. -- H. L. Mencken
The art of flatterers is to take advantage of the foibles of the great, to foster their errors, and never to give advice which may annoy. -- Moliere
All the time and effort people devote to picking the right fund, the hot hand, the great manager have, in most cases, led to no advantage. -- Peter Lynch
I believe the Negro blood counts, and counts to my advantage - though it has caused me at times a life of great humiliation and sorrow. -- Henry Ossawa Tanner
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The great advantage [the telephone] possesses over every other form of electrical apparatus consists in the fact that it requires no skill to operate the instrument. -- Alexander Graham Bell
Obviously, you know, I am known as an action director, and being a film editor previously had been a great advantage for me as an action director. -- John Glen
Take advantage of this great opportunity in your life to live it well, to be good, to have good works, and to influence other people for good. -- David B. Haight
With this idea, being a man with long experience of the sea (and they certainly have a great advantage over other men in any sort of task)... -- Garcilaso de la Vega
It is a great advantage to a President, and a major source of safety to the country, for him to know he is not a great man. -- Calvin Coolidge
Most people think small because most people are afraid of success, afraid of making decisions, afraid of winning. And that gives people like me a great advantage. -- Donald Trump
[During difficult times and after mistakes and failures it is helpful to remember ...] Oftentimes calamity turns to our advantage and great ruins make way for greater glories. -- Seneca the Younger
It's been a company [Exxon] that's been unbelievably managed and to me, a great advantage is Rex Tillerson knows many of the players and he knows them well. -- Donald Trump
Loss generally occurs when a player overrates his advantage or for other reasons seeks to derive from a minute advantage a great return such as a forced win. -- Emanuel Lasker
So great an advantage is given to sin and Satan by your temper and disposition, that without extraordinary watchfulness, care, and diligence, they will prevail against your soul. -- John Owen
The great artist is the man who most obviously succeeds in turning his pains to advantage, in letting suffering deepens his understanding and sensibility, in growing through his pains. -- Walter Kaufmann
The great artist is the man who most obviously succeeds in turning his pains to advantage, in letting suffering deepen his understanding and sensibility, in growing through his pains. -- Walter Kaufmann
Rowing against the tide is hard and uncertain. To go with the tide and thus take advantage of the workings of the great natural force is safe and easy. -- Ralph Waldo Trine
What I think the mentor gets is the great satisfaction of helping somebody along, helping somebody take advantage of an opportunity that maybe he or she did not have. -- Clint Eastwood
No education can be of true advantage to young women but that which trains them up in humble industry, in great plainness of living, in exact modesty of dress. -- William Law
An instructor should exemplify the things he seeks to teach. It will be of great advantage if you yourself can do all you ask of your students and more. -- Bruce Lee
It would be a great advantage to some schoolmasters if they would steal two hours a day from their pupils and give their own minds the benefit of the robbery. -- John Frederick Boyes
It doesn't matter what business you're in. It is the people who achieve things, not capital, and the great advantage for us is that I think women have always known this. -- Janet Holmes a Court
What a great advantage a man can have over women, if he only knew what cold and calculating thoughts are going through her mind.... while her eyes are brimming with tears. -- Esther Vilar
A great advantage of X-ray analysis as a method of chemical structure analysis is its power to show some totally unexpected and surprising structure with, at the same time, complete certainty. -- Dorothy Hodgkin
For some reason when I decide to pursue something, I never have any fear that it won't happen. I think it's just ingrained in my brain. Which I guess is a great advantage. -- Kelly Blatz
It is of great advantage to the student of any subject to read the original memoirs on that subject, for science is always most completely assimilated when it is in the nascent state. -- James Clerk Maxwell
We had forgotten the art of using silence to convey emotions in our films and that's what you seem to have mastered. You've used silence to great advantage in the film. It's brilliant. -- Amitabh Bachchan
Mathematics... is a bit like discovering oil. ... But mathematics has one great advantage over oil, in that no one has yet ... found a way that you can keep using the same oil forever. -- Andrew Wiles
I have a great advantage over many of my colleagues inasmuch as my students bring with them to class their own personal knowledge of national, regional, religious, ethnic, occupational, and family folklore traditions. -- Alan Dundes
Great advantage is drawn from knowledge of your adversary, and when you know the measure of his intelligence and character, you can use it to play on his weakness. -- Frederick the Great

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