#advantage

The objective is to enlarge the scope of your advantage which can only happen at someone else's expense. ↗

— Bruce Henderson

#else #enlarge #expense #happen #objective

A bad neighbor is as great a calamity as a good one is a great advantage. ↗

— Hesiod

#bad #calamity #good #great #great advantage

The advantage to Great Britain of a regular free trade in corn would, therefore, be more by raising the rest of the world to our standard and price, than by lowering the prices here to the standard of the Continent. ↗

— Joseph Hume

#britain #continent #corn #free #free trade

President Obama stands ready to work with everyone, because that's what the American people expect and deserve - not for the short term political advantages, but the long term health of our country. We don't spend time trying to figure out what's in the minds of Republicans, we try to keep our focus on the American people. ↗

— Valerie Jarrett

#american #american people #because #country #deserve

Well, I love having kids. But I have the advantage of having a lot of help, a real hands-on husband and small children whom I can easily manipulate. ↗

— Jane Kaczmarek

#children #easily #hands-on #having #help

I try to use the Australian idiom to its maximum advantage. ↗

— Paul Keating

#australian #i #idiom #maximum #try

It's kind of true, you do disappear off the planet if you are a middle-aged woman, but that has some advantages as well. ↗

— Diane Keaton

#disappear #kind #middle-aged #off #planet

The advantage of the emotions is that they lead us astray. ↗

— Oscar Wilde

#astray #emotions #lead #us

One of the advantages of the book's having been out there for more than a quarter century is that there's been time for people to report back on what it's done for them. ↗

— Andrew Tobias

#back #been #book #century #done

Originally created to serve the poorest and sickest among us, the Medicaid program has grown dramatically but still doesn't include the kind of flexibility that states need to provide better health care for the poor and disadvantaged. ↗

— Fred Upton

#among #better #care #created #disadvantaged