#great advantage

What I learned at Oxford has been used to great advantage throughout my business career. ↗

— Paul Getty

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The great advantage of being a writer is that you can spy on people. You're there, listening to every word, but part of you is observing. Everything is useful to a writer, you see - every scrap, even the longest and most boring of luncheon parties. ↗

— Graham Greene

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Fame is a very confusing thing, because you are recognized by a lot of people that you've never seen before, and they're at a great advantage. ↗

— Scott Hamilton

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I regard it in fact as the great advantage of the mathematical technique that it allows us to describe, by means of algebraic equations, the general character of a pattern even where we are ignorant of the numerical values which will determine its particular manifestation. ↗

— Friedrich August von Hayek

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As a result, the highly civilized man can endure incomparably more than the savage, whether of moral or physical strain. Being better able to control himself under all circumstances, he has a great advantage over the savage. ↗

— Lafcadio Hearn

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I really think that there was a great advantage in many ways to being a woman. I think we are a lot better at personal relationships, and then have the capability obviously of telling it like it is when it's necessary. ↗

— Madeleine Albright

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Experience is a great advantage. The problem is that when you get the experience, you're too damned old to do anything about it. ↗

— Jimmy Connors

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It is a great advantage for a system of philosophy to be substantially true. ↗

— Sophia Loren

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Scientists are human, they're as biased as any other group. But they do have one great advantage in that science is a self-correcting process. ↗

— Cyril Ponnamperuma

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The great advantage of being in a rut is that when one is in a rut, one knows exactly where one is. ↗

— Arnold Bennett

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