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For obviously the advantage for most writers is that no one sees them. The writer is invisible, which confers power.
To this hour, the great science and duty of politics is lowered by the petty leaven of small and personal advantage.
Therapists have tremendous power over their vulnerable clients, and it is very easy to take advantage of this power.
It is the people who are 'far out' who are gaining advantage in the evolutionary jostling for efficacious strategies.
The advantage of doing one's praising for oneself is that one can lay it on so thick and exactly in the right places.
I'd be derelict in my duty if I didn't go and continue to use every advantage that I can to promote New York's cause.
I've decided to take advantage of outsourcing. My next novel will be written by a couple of guys in Bangalore, India.
I assess the power of a will by how much resistance, pain, torture it endures and knows how to turn to its advantage.
Competitive advantage is a companys ability to perform in one or more ways that competitors cannot or will not match.
I am myself impressed by the great social advantages of increasing the stock of capital until it ceases to be scarce.
To show the American woman herself off to best advantage - that has always been my aim and that is my real biography.
Was not this ... what we spoke of as the great advantage of wisdom -- to know what is known and what is unknown to us?
Death puts an end to rivalship and competition. The dead can boast no advantage over us, nor can we triumph over them.
I do not like to have people throw themselves away; but everybody should marry as soon as they can do it to advantage.
I like to be part of the change I want to see in the world. Not being afraid of criticism is actually a big advantage.
Governments like China and the United Arab Emirates are investing heavily in AI and see it as a competitive advantage.
Next to knowing when to seize an opportunity, the most important thing in life is to know when to forego an advantage.
One of the most considerable advantages the great have over their inferiors is to have servants as good as themselves.
Technology is always evolving, and companies.. not just search companies.. can't be afraid to take advantage of change.
The fact is that co-operation between independent countries - to our mutual advantage - is the way of the modern world.
Take advantage of it now, while you are young, and suffer all you can, because these things don't last your whole life.
Duty is seldom liked either by the doer or the object ... And why should it be? It is not often of advantage to either.
It is of great advantage that man should know his station, and not imagine that the whole universe exists only for him.
While formal schooling is an important advantage, it is not a guarantee of success nor is its absence a fatal handicap.
Nothing gives one person so much advantage over another as to remain always cool and unruffled under all circumstances.
Immoderate grief is selfish, harmful, brings no advantage to either the mourner or the mourned, and dishonors the dead.
I do swear a lot, but the advantage is that having played abroad, I can choose a different language from the referee's.
The massive migration from dumb phones to smart phones is a great opportunity for young companies to take advantage of.
Sometimes in life, you're not always given a second chance, but if you do, take advantage of it, and go out with a bang!
Girls have an unfair advantage over men: if they can't get what they want by being smart, they can get it by being dumb.
We've been in that situation where you're just so happy to be doing what you love to do that you get taken advantage of.
Bill Bradley is a serious politician and if Al Gore stumbles seriously, then Bradley is there to take advantage of that.
It's kind of true, you do disappear off the planet if you are a middle-aged woman, but that has some advantages as well.
What is fame? The advantage of being known by people of whom you yourself know nothing, and for whom you care as little.
I'm not interested in seeing dance die. It's not to my advantage. Nor is it to our culture's advantage or anybody else's.
Advantage comes not from the spectacular or the technical. Advantage comes from a persistent seeking of the mundane edge.
In an economy where the only certainty is uncertainty, the one sure source of lasting competitive advantage is knowledge.
The advantage we have as Americans is that we can be fair; we tend to be more open-minded about different styles of wine.
There have been people who have tried to take advantage of me. They want to be linked to me just because I'm Ethel Merman.
It's only through Christ that we can take full advantage of God's mercy and forgiveness through repentance in Jesus' name.
I was a disadvantaged child from a non-educated family, yet I had the advantage of being in the company of great teachers.
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.
I had been gullible, naive, soft, pliable. That's why I got taken advantage of. To survive, you have to have a tough skin.
Maybe I didn't take the advantage and become a star and get all the brands so that I could solidify my space in the world.
Truth gives no advantage. It gives no higher status, no power over others; all you get is truth and freedom from the false.
I've always been a very confident person, and I know how important it is to take advantage when life gives you opportunity.
An organization's ability to learn, and translate that learning into action rapidly, is the ultimate competitive advantage.
If you think advantage lies in resources, then you think the best educational system is the one that spends the most money.
One of India's biggest advantages is our young demographic and that we have a youthful population that is indeed our future.
Our nature holds so much envy and malice that our pleasure in our own advantages is not so great as our distress at others'.