#vantage

His struggle for a bare living left him no time to take advantage of the public evening school. In time he learned to read, to follow a conversation or lecture; but he never learned to write correctly; and his pronunciation remains extremely foreign to this day. ↗

— Mary Antin

#bare #conversation #correctly #day #evening

My brother Jeff is now my agent at Advantage International in Washington, D.C. ↗

— Tracy Austin

#agent #brother #international #jeff #now

Illegal immigrants are beginning to comprise a black market class of workers in our society, jeopardizing the financial health of companies which play by the rules, while themselves vulnerable to the exploitation by those willing to take advantage of their illegal status. ↗

— Spencer Bachus

#beginning #black #class #companies #comprise

We have followed a path of moderation, development is our priority, national unity, good community relations, Muslims and non Muslims, this is what has given us the advantage. ↗

— Abdullah Ahmad Badawi

#community #development #followed #given #good

Eulogy. Praise of a person who has either the advantages of wealth and power, or the consideration to be dead. ↗

— Ambrose Bierce

#consideration #dead #either #eulogy #person

For them to perceive the advantage of defeating the enemy, they must also have their rewards. ↗

— Sun Tzu

#also #defeating #enemy #must #perceive

The great advantage of the Lib Dems is precisely that no-one knows what they stand for. ↗

— Tony Blair

#great #great advantage #knows #lib #no-one

My only advantage as a reporter is that I am so physically small, so temperamentally unobtrusive, and so neurotically inarticulate that people tend to forget that my presence runs counter to their best interests. ↗

— Joan Didion

#am #best #best interests #counter #forget

I take advantage of every thing I can - age, hair, disability - because my cause is just. ↗

— Marjory Stoneman Douglas

#age #because #cause #disability #every

In our passage from the Cape of Good Hope the winds were mostly from the westward with very boisterous weather: but one great advantage that this season of the year has over the summer months is in being free from fogs. ↗

— William Bligh

#being #boisterous #cape #fogs #free