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In the 1940s, the petroleum business was an American game, and it was enormously to our advantage that the world ran on oil.
Is it even always an advantage to replace an indistinct picture by a sharp one? Isn't the indistinct one often what we need?
The interest of the public is never better advanced than when we can inculcate by our rules the advantage of acting honestly.
Politics: A strife of interests masquerading as a contest of principles. The conduct of public affairs for private advantage.
One advantage in keeping a diary is that you become aware with reassuring clarity of the changes which you constantly suffer.
The great advantage of the sort of education I had was precisely that it made practically no mark upon those subjected to it.
Freedom can be preserved only if it is treated as a supreme principle which must not be sacrificed for particular advantages.
I'm at my best when I'm working. I just recently learned how to find balance and deal with downtime and take advantage of it.
The only way to care for the disadvantaged - is to disadvantage yourself -which is guaranteed to turn out for your advantage.
Air power is new to all our countries. It brings advantages to some and weakens others; it calls for readjustment everywhere.
Take advantage of the years of pioneering efforts. You might find this boring, as the young want to rush head on, as it were.
There is a need to take advantage of the change that has taken place in the Congo, however tragic that has been in its coming.
When do you manipulate others for your own advantage? When I notice myself doing it, usually it is when I am feeling insecure.
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Jumping through any hoop or taking advantage of any desperate situation that comes up just to sell a product is harmful. It is.
The company that consistently makes and implements decisions rapidly gains a tremendous, often decisive, competitive advantage.
Learn poetry by heart. If you know a poem by heart, no one can take it away from you, and you can take advantage of it anytime.
For me personally, I try to use my size to my advantage where I can either slip by guys or try to create more space for myself.
The greatest competitive advantage is to allow your employees to be part of something. Something bigger than what you're doing.
That God cannot lie, is no advantage to your argument, because it is no proof that priests can not, or that the Bible does not.
Our ability to create that one-on-one engagement with a customer is a point of differentiation and a strategic advantage for us.
Experience is a great advantage. The problem is that when you get the experience, you're too damned old to do anything about it.
I know a lot about writing, but I don't know much about how other industries work. I've tried to use my naivety to my advantage.
If vice and corruption prevail, liberty cannot subsist; but if virtue have the advantage, arbitrary power cannot be established.
If a man is not to take advantage of the opportunities that present themselves to him, what is he to do, or what is he good for?
Many girls have not the advantage I have and I [am] very very glad that satan has not geven me boils and many other Misfortunes.
The essayist has to follow a certain intellectual pattern. The novelist has the advantage of using fantasy, of being subjective.
The only advantage of not being too good a housekeeper is that your guests are so pleased to feel how very much better they are.
Photographers and people do try to take advantage of you. You just have to stand your ground and prove you're not an easy target.
[Napoleon has now] surpassed...Alexander & Caesar, not to mention the great advantage he has over them in the Cause he fights in.
I've always been big. I'm never going to be an underwear model. But I am who I am, and that has its advantages and disadvantages.
There's such an advantage to being involved in the day-to-day details of each other's lives. It's a marvelous fabric to exist in.
On 'Mad Men,' I have a bit of an advantage because I know who gets better as they repeat a scene and who's best at the beginning.
One of the big issues in Ohio and elsewhere is people do not have the skills to take advantage of the openings that are out there.
An advantage that the Hague Conferences lack, in contrast to the peace associations and the Interparliamentary Union, is a bureau.
People confuse goodness with weakness. It is weak people, not good people (goodness demands strength), who are taken advantage of.
Sunseeker is well placed to take full advantage of opportunities in China, one of the world's fastest growing luxury yacht markets.
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.
One advantage to having a kid on the spectrum: they tend to be rule followers. Socially, things are harder for them than most kids.
UTC is very well positioned to take advantage of 2 large megatrends: urbanization and the fast-growing commercial aerospace market.
A company's best advantage should be a quality product offered at the right price. That fair competition is what drives innovation.
I love my mom. I totally look up to her, and she just doesn't let anybody take advantage of me. People might call that a stage mom.
The greatest advantage of being First Lady is the opportunity it presents to truly make a difference on issues of great importance.
I've always been conscious not to take advantage of my sexual orientation because I don't think it's fair, and it shouldn't matter.
Be known for pleasing others, especially if you govern them. Ruling other has one advantage: you can do more good than anyone else.
The main advantage of the omniscient approach is that it's the easiest to handle. That's the major reason so many writers select it.
American businessmen have taken advantage of the opportunities which existed in Europe and Europeans seem not to have been aware of.
We act like a zero-sum society, when in reality there is a lot of non zero-sum fat to be skimmed off to everyone's mutual advantage.
An enterprise that is constantly exploring new horizons is likely to have a competitive advantage in attracting and retaining talent.