#advantage

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 lessons as often as we please. ↗

— Robert Chambers

#always #books #counselors #disinterested #hand

Mutual funds give people the sense that they're investing with the big boys and that they're really not at a disadvantage entering the stock market. ↗

— Ron Chernow

#disadvantage #entering #funds #give #investing

I think that has to do with my awareness that in a sense we all have a certain measure of responsibility to those who have made it possible for us to take advantage of the opportunities. ↗

— Angela Davis

#awareness #certain #i #i think #made

In The States I would have no edge, no advantage at all. ↗

— Nigel Dennis

#edge #i #states #would

I have Tourettes and Aspergers, but Tourrets and Aspergers don't have me. You know, I'm doing what I can to suppress it and I don't let it take advantage of me. It's not who I am. You know, I'm James Durbin. Like I said in the beginning, I am here to show America who I am, and it is what it is. ↗

— James Durbin

#am #america #beginning #doing #durbin

Technology has a great advantage in that we are capable of creating dinosaurs and show them on the screen even though they are extinct 65 million years. All of a sudden, we have a fantastic tool that is as good as dreams are. ↗

— Werner Herzog

#capable #creating #dinosaurs #dreams #even

I think I was born strong-willed. That's not the kind of thing you can learn. The advantage is, you stick to what you believe in and rarely get pushed out of what you want to do. ↗

— Joan Jett

#advantage #believe #born #get #i

We try to be real nice and friendly to people, but sometimes they take advantage of that. ↗

— Layne Staley

#be real #friendly #nice #people #real

CD stores have the disadvantage of an expensive inventory, but digital bookshops would need no such thing: they could write copies at the time of sale on to memory sticks, and sell you one if you forgot your own. ↗

— Richard Stallman

#copies #could #digital #disadvantage #expensive

Convinced that the attachment of colonies to the metropolis, depends infinitely more upon moral and religious feeling, than political arrangement, or even commercial advantage, I cannot but lament that more is not done to instill it into the minds of the people. ↗

— John Strachan

#arrangement #attachment #cannot #colonies #commercial