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«In all our efforts to provide ''advantages'' we have actually produced the busiest, most competitive, highly pressured, and over-organized generation of youngsters in our history.''»
Author: Eda J. Le Shan
| Keywords:
advantages, busiest, competitive, competitive advantage, pressured, youngster, youngsters
«A little weeping, a little wheedling, a little self-degradation, a little careful use of our advantages, and then some man will say ''.Come, be my wife!'' With good looks and youth marriage is easy to attain. There are men enough; but a woman who has sold herself, even for a ring and a new name, need hold her skirt aside for no creature in the street. They both earn their bread in one way. Marriage for love is the most beautiful external symbol of the union of souls; marriage without it is the least clean traffic that defiles the world.»
Author: Olive Schreiner
(Writer)
| Keywords:
advantages, and then some, defiles, degradation, earn, good looks, one-way street, One Ring, skirt, skirted, sold, the union, traffic, weeping, wheedle, wheedled, wheedling
«All travel has its advantages. If the passenger visits better countries, he may learn to improve his own. And if fortune carries him to worse, he may learn to enjoy it.»
Author: Samuel Johnson
(Critic, Poet, Writer)
| About:
World
| Keywords:
advantages, Better To Travel, carries, countries, fortune, improve, passenger, visits
«Certainly, we are trying to preserve all of that culture, and get the advantages of being a large company with a broad product line, with stability, worldwide presence, great support, and yet have the advantages that a small software company has.»
Author: Bill Gates
(Entrepreneur, Founder)
| About:
Company,
Culture
| Keywords:
advantages, broad, product line, software, stability, worldwide
«Do not be desirous of having things done quickly. Do not look at small advantages. Desire to have things done quickly prevents their being done thoroughly. Looking at small advantages prevents great affairs from being accomplished.»
Author: Confucius
| Keywords:
accomplished, advantaged, advantages, affairs, desirous, Having, looking, looking at, look at, prevents, quickly, The Affair, thoroughly, to advantage
«After all the field of battle possesses many advantages over the drawing-room. There at least is no room for pretension or excessive ceremony, no shaking of hands or rubbing of noses, which make one doubt your sincerity, but hearty as well as hard hand-play. It at least exhibits one of the faces of humanity, the former only a mask.»
Author: Henry David Thoreau
(Essayist, Philosopher, Poet)
| Keywords:
advantages, ceremony, drawing room, excessive, exhibits, field of battle, noses, pretension, rubbing, shaking, The Faces
«Adam and Eve had many advantages but the principal one was, that they escaped teething»
Author: Mark Twain
(Humorist, Lecturer, Writer)
| Keywords:
Adam, Adam and Eve, Adam the, advantages, escaped, Eve, principal, teething
«But there are advantages to being elected President. The day after I was elected, I had my high school grades classified Top Secret.»
Author: Ronald Reagan
(President)
| Keywords:
advantages, classified, classify, elected, grades, grade school, Higher Grade, high school, The Day After, Top Secret
«Few enterprises of great labor or hazard would be undertaken if we had not the power of magnifying the advantages we expect from them.»
Author: Samuel Johnson
(Critic, Poet, Writer)
| Keywords:
advantages, enterprises, hazard, magnifies, magnifying, undertaken
«Animals have these advantages over man: they never hear the clock strike, they die without any idea of death, they have no theologians to instruct them, their last moments are not disturbed by unwelcome and unpleasant ceremonies, their funerals cost»
Author: Voltaire
(Philosopher, Writer)
| Keywords:
advantages, animals, ceremonies, clock, cost, disturbed, funerals, instruct, instructing, instructs, moments, strike, theologian, theologians, The Clocks, unpleasant, unwelcome
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