"It is a great advantage for a system of philosophy to be substantially true."
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"It is the greatest of all advantages to enjoy no advantage at all."
"It [is of] some advantage to live a primitive and frontier life, though in the midst of an outward civilization, if only to learn what are the gross necessities of life."
"Obviously, the highest type of efficiency is that which can utilize existing material to the best advantage."
"Crises and deadlocks when they occur have at least this advantage, that they force us to think."
"Was not this ... what we spoke of as the great advantage of wisdom -- to know what is known and what is unknown to us?"
"It's harder to write in the third person but the advantage is you move around better."
"Any MC who chooses to go up against me is getting taken advantage of like Monica Lewinski"
"One of the advantages of series TV is that you can change your mind and plan things as you go."
"Friendship is a thing most necessary to life, since without friends no one would choose to live, though possessed of all other advantages."
"I do ride contend against the advantages of distrust. In the world we live in, it is but too necessary. Some of old called it the very sinews of discretion."
"Every advantage has its tax."
"It is the people who are 'far out' who are gaining advantage in the evolutionary jostling for efficacious strategies."
"Whatever advantage we snatch beyond a certain portion allotted us by at nature, is like money spent before it is due, which, at the time of regular payment, will be missed and regretted."
"Treating your adversary with respect is giving him an advantage to which he is not entitled."
"Present opportunities are neglected, and attainable good is slighted, by minds busied in extensive ranges and intent upon future advantages."
"My brother Jeff is now my agent at Advantage International in Washington, D.C."
"At a minimum, in explaining evolutionary pathways through time, the constraints imposed by history rise to equal prominence with the immediate advantages of adaptation."
"We vary greatly in the natural advantages that we've been given. The world's not fair"
"When you find errors in conventional wisdom-when everyone says A and A is not true-you gain competitive advantage. Only a few times do you have to find errors in conventional wisdom to make a living."