#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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Sometime to be called Pavarotti is not always an advantage. ↗

— Luciano Pavarotti

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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

#geometry #true

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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It is common for rural hospitals and nursing homes to operate as a single unit in order to take advantage of savings related to cost-sharing of some services and staff. ↗

— Rick Renzi

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If the large power voluntarily abstains from using its full power or feels the strategic situation to be such that it cannot do so, it in effect loses the advantage of being a big power. ↗

— Elliot Richardson

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