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Every advantage has its tax.
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A good man often appears gauche simply because he does not take advantage of the myriad mean little chances of making himself look stylish. Preferring truth to form, he is not constantly at work upon the façade of his appearance.
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I think luck is the sense to recognize an opportunity and the ability to take advantage of it. The man who can smile at his breaks and grab his chances gets on.
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It is the nature, and the advantage, of strong people that they can bring out the crucial questions and form a clear opinion about them. The weak always have to decide between alternatives that are not their own.
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Nothing gives one person so much advantage over another as to remain always cool and unruffled under all circumstances.
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The most overlooked advantage to owning a computer is that if they foul up there's no law against wacking them around a little.
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A grave blockhead should always go about with a lively one - they show one another off to the best advantage.
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A small child from a developing country has the advantage, from a very early age, of having access to toys which structure his mind, which constitute a sure advantage over the little African child who has never even held a modern toy.
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A strange and somewhat impassive physiognomy is often, perhaps, an advantage to an orator, or leader of any sort, because it helps to fix the eye and fascinate the mind.
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A well-run restaurant is like a winning baseball team. It makes the most of every crew member's talent and takes advantage of every split-second opportunity to speed up service.
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A woman who gives any advantage to a man may expect a lover - but will sooner or later find a tyrant.
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After all, despite the economic advantage to firms that employed child labor, it was in the social interest, as a national policy, to abolish it - removing that advantage for all firms.
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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.
Source: Jeet Kune Do (1997) Part 5 On training in Jeet Kune Do -
Baseball has the great advantage over cricket of being sooner ended.
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Before signing any contract, you have to assume that the guy on the other side of the desk is handing you a shifty piece of paper that works to his advantage. I know that sounds cynical, but it's really that simple.
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Books are standing counselors and preachers, always at hand, and always disinterested; having this advantage over oral instructors, that they are ready to repeat their lesson as often as we please.
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Builders eventually took advantage of the look of modernism to build cheaply and carelessly.
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Calmness is great advantage; he that lets another chafe, may warm him at his fire.
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Celebrity is the advantage of being known to people who we don't know, and who don't know us.
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Crises and deadlocks when they occur have at least this advantage, that they force us to think.
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