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Actor, Writer, Author

There is no accident so unfortunate but wise men will make some advantage of it, nor any so entirely fortunate but fools may turn it to their own prejudice.

Accident - Advantage - Fools - Man - Misfortune - Prejudice - Wisdom

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James Clerk Maxwell

Physicist

It is of great advantage to the student of any subject to read the original memoirs on that subject, for science is always most completely assimilated when it is in the nascent state.

Accounting - Advantage - Original - Science - State - Student

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Edmund Burke

Statesman, Philosopher

To be attached to the subdivision, to love the little platoon we belong to in society, is the first principle (the germ as it were) of public affections. It is the first link in the series by which we proceed toward a love to our country and to mankind. The interest of that portion of social arrangement is a trust in the hands of all those who compose it; and as none but bad men would justify it in abuse, none but traitors would barter it away for their own personal advantage.

Abuse - Advantage - Countries - Interest - Man - Mankind - Peace - Principle - War

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Richard Dawkins

Producer, Scientist, Ethologist

The trouble with conspiracies, even those that are to everybody's advantage in the long run, is that they are open to abuse. If manipulators really had the powers claimed, they could win the lottery every week. I prefer to point out that they could also win a Nobel Prize for discovering fundamental physical forces hitherto unknown to science.

Abuse - Advantage - Conspiracy - Discovery - Economy - Force - Manipulation - Trouble - Week - Winning

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Laozi

Philosopher

Clay is moulded to make a vessel, but the utility of the vessel lies in the space where there is nothing. . . . Thus, taking advantage of what is, we recognize the utility of what is not.

Advantage - Lie - Utility

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Samuel Johnson

Writer, Poet, Lexicographer

All violation of established practice implies in its own nature a rejection of the common opinion, a defiance of common censure, and an appeal from general laws to private judgment: he, therefore, who differs form others without apparent advantage, ought not to be angry if his arrogance is punished with ridicule; if those whose example he superciliously overlooks, point him out to derision, and hoot him back again into the common road.

Advantage - Anger - Arrogance - Defiance - Judging - Law - Opinion - Practice - Reject - Violation

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Alan Watts

Philosopher

More and more we try to effect an adaptation to life by means of external gadgets, and attempt to solve our problems by conscious thinking rather than unconscious 'know-how'. This is much less to our advantage than we like to suppose.

Advantage - Consciousness - Effectiveness - Gadgets - Life - Meaning - Problem - Solution - Thinking - Trial - Unconscious

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Napoleon Hill

Leader, Writer, Author

There would be no advantage to be gained by sowing a field of wheat if the harvest did not return more than was sown.

Advantage - Return

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Epictetus

Clergyman, Philosopher, Philosopher

If what the philosophers say be true, that all men's actions proceed from one source; that as they assent from a persuasion that a thing is so, and dissent from a persuasion that it is not, and suspend their judgment from a persuasion that it is uncertain, so likewise they seek a thing from a persuasion that it is for their advantage.

Actions - Advantage - Judging - Man - Persuasion - Philosophy

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Neil deGrasse Tyson

Novelist, Scientist, Astrophysicist

For centuries, magicians have intuitively taken advantage of the inner workings of our brains.

Advantage - Brain - Intuition - Magic - Taking

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Plato

Musician, Philosopher, Philosopher

And once we have given our community a good start,' I pointed out, ' the process will be cumulative. By maintaining a sound system of education you produce citizens of good character, and citizens of sound character, with the advantage of a good education, produce in turn children better than themselves and better able to produce still better children in their turn, as can be seen with animals.

Ability - Advantage - Animals - Character - Children - Citizenry - Education - Giving - Maintenance - Production - Sound

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Teresa of Avila

Saint

Learn to self-conquest, persevere thus for a time, and you will perceive very clearly the advantage which you gain from it.

Advantage - Fun - Gains - Oneself - Perception - Perseverance - Persistence - Spiritual - Wisdom

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Marcus Tullius Cicero

Statesman, Orator, Lawyer, Philosopher

We cannot employ the mind to advantage when we are filled with excessive food and drink.

Advantage - Cooking - Drinking - Mindset

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John C. Maxwell

Scientist, Clergyman, Author

Manipulation is moving together for my advantage. Motivation is moving together for mutual advantage.

Advantage - Manipulation - Motivation - Movement - Together

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H. P. Lovecraft

Writer, Novelist, Author

Religion struck me so vague a thing at best, that I could perceive no advantage of any one system over any other.

Advantage - Perception

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Mikhail Gorbachev

Writer, Statesman, Former General Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union

Not only America but all countries should think together about how the enormous might of the sole remaining superpower should be used. We need a leadership that is based on partnership, a leadership that unites nations and makes it possible to solve the problems of the globe together. Otherwise, we will have another Gold Rush for a superpower that wants to gain even greater advantages, that wants to gain an absolutely new position for itself. That would lead to a perverse utopia.

Advantage - America - Countries - Gains - Nations - Partners - Problem - Solution - Thinking - Together - Utopia - Wants

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Gustave Flaubert

Novelist

She loved the sea for its storms alone, cared for vegetation only when it grew here and there among ruins. She had to extract a kind of personal advantage from things and she rejected as useless everything that promised no immediate gratification — for her temperament was more sentimental than artistic, and what she was looking for was emotions, not scenery.

Advantage - Art - Emotions - Gratification - Growing - Kindness - Reject - Sea - Storm - Useless

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Henry David Thoreau

Essayist, Poet, Philosopher, Critic, Historian

It is the greatest of all advantages to enjoy no advantage at all.

Advantage - Enjoying

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John Rawls

Actor, Educator, Philosopher

The concept of justice I take to be defined, then, by the role of its principles in assigning rights and duties and in defining the appropriate division of social advantages. A conception of justice is an interpretation of this role.

Advantage - Appropriation - Interpretation - Judging - Principle - Right

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Plato

Musician, Philosopher, Philosopher

Justice is nothing more than the advantage of the stronger.

Advantage - Judging - Strength

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