#advantage

Geometry is not true, it is advantageous. ↗

— Henri Poincare

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The essayist has to follow a certain intellectual pattern. The novelist has the advantage of using fantasy, of being subjective. ↗

— Manuel Puig

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When we cannot hope to win, it is an advantage to yield. ↗

— Quintilian

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Let the fear of danger be a spur to prevent it; he that fears not, gives advantage to the danger. ↗

— Francis Quarles

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Home advantage gives you an advantage. ↗

— Bobby Robson

#gives #home #you

Take advantage of every opportunity to practice your communication skills so that when important occasions arise, you will have the gift, the style, the sharpness, the clarity, and the emotions to affect other people. ↗

— Jim Rohn

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The main cause is a pernicious falsehood propagated against her being, namely that she is inferior by her nature. Inferior in what? What has man ever done that woman, under the same advantages could not do? ↗

— Ernestine Rose

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But as far as my work is concerned, I see no impediment, and various advantages, to being deaf. ↗

— Stephanie Beacham

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A woman who gives any advantage to a man may expect a lover but will sooner or later find a tyrant. ↗

— George Byron

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A player is said to have the opposition when he can place his King directly in front of the adverse King, with only one square between them. This is often an important advantage in ending games. ↗

— Howard Staunton

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