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Letter "A" » advantages
«Whenever you feel like criticising anyone, just remember that all the people in this world haven't had the advantages that you've had.»
«The question for each man to settle is not what he would do if he had means, time, influence, and educational advantages, but what he will do with the things he has.»
Author: Hamilton Wright Mabie
| About:
Positive thinking,
Truth,
Wealth
| Keywords:
advantages, educational, For each, influence, settle, The Question
«We willingly pay 30,000 - 40,000 fatalities per year for the advantages of individual transportation by automobile»
Author: John von Neumann
(Mathematician)
| Keywords:
advantages, automobile, fatalities, fatality, PER, per year, transportation, willingly
«The two big advantages I had at birth were to have been born wise and to have been born in poverty.»
«To say that a man is your Friend, means commonly no more than this, that he is not your enemy. Most contemplate only what would be the accidental and trifling advantages of Friendship, as that the Friend can assist in time of need by his substance, or his influence, or his counsel. Even the utmost goodwill and harmony and practical kindness are not sufficient for Friendship, for Friends do not live in harmony merely, as some say, but in melody.»
Author: Henry David Thoreau
(Essayist, Philosopher, Poet)
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«We were wise indeed, could we discern truly the signs of our own time; and by knowledge of its wants and advantages, wisely adjust our own position in it. Let us, instead of gazing idly into the obscure distance, look calmly around us, for a little, on the perplexed scene where we stand. Perhaps, on a more serious inspection, something of its perplexity will disappear, some of its distinctive characters and deeper tendencies more clearly reveal themselves; whereby our own relations to it, our own true aims and endeavors in it, may also become clearer.»
Author: Thomas Carlyle
(Essayist, Historian)
| Keywords:
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