#vantage

One of the marked characteristics of the U.K. security industry as compared with defence is the lack of company scale. This can put our firms at a competitive disadvantage when it comes to big contracts. ↗

— Pauline Neville-Jones

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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

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It has adopted the geometry most advantageous to the species or, in other words, the most convenient. ↗

— Henri Poincare

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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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I always believed that my silence on several topics will be an advantage in the long run. ↗

— Aishwarya Rai

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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

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

— Ronald Reagan

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