#advantage

In Trinidad, where as new arrivals we were a disadvantaged community, that excluding idea was a kind of protection; it enabled us - for the time being, and only for the time being - to live in our own way and according to our own rules, to live in our own fading India. ↗

— V. S. Naipaul

#arrivals #being #community #disadvantaged #enabled

Books are standing counselors and preachers, always at hand, and always disinterested; having this advantage over oral instructors, that they are ready to repeat their lesson as often as we please. ↗

— Louis Nizer

#always #books #counselors #disinterested #hand

I think there are advantages to different scales of filmmaking. You wouldn't want to do just one thing. ↗

— Christopher Nolan

#different #filmmaking #i #i think #just

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. ↗

— Thomas Paine

#argument #because #bible #cannot #does

At times like that it's difficult to remember what's at stake, that history is in the making. As a player you feel so cut off sometimes, it can be tough... Which is why it is an enormous advantage to play at home. ↗

— Michel Patini

#cut #difficult #enormous #feel #history

Theoretical principals must sometimes give way for the sake of practical advantages. ↗

— William Pitt

#give #must #practical #principals #sake

People confuse goodness with weakness. It is weak people, not good people (goodness demands strength), who are taken advantage of. ↗

— Dennis Prager

#confuse #demands #good #good people #goodness

But there are advantages to being elected President. The day after I was elected, I had my high school grades classified Top Secret. ↗

— Ronald Reagan

#after #being #classified #day #elected

No mother would ever willingly sacrifice her sons for territorial gain, for economic advantage, for ideology. ↗

— Ronald Reagan

#economic #ever #gain #her #ideology

It is common for rural hospitals and nursing homes to operate as a single unit in order to take advantage of savings related to cost-sharing of some services and staff. ↗

— Rick Renzi

#common #homes #hospitals #nursing #operate