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«The best laws cannot make a constitution work in spite of morals; morals can turn the worst laws to advantage. That is a commonplace truth, but one to which my studies are always bringing me back. It is the central point in my conception. I see it at the end of all my reflections.»
Author: Alexis de Tocqueville
(Historian, Political scientist)
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«Start where you are. Distant fields always look greener, but opportunity lies right where you are. Take advantage of every opportunity of service.»
Author: Robert Collier
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«Do not be desirous of having things done quickly. Do not look at small advantages. Desire to have things done quickly prevents their being done thoroughly. Looking at small advantages prevents great affairs from being accomplished.»
Author: Confucius
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«The advantage of a bad memory is that one enjoys several times the same good things for the first time»
Author: Friedrich Nietzsche
(Critic, Philosopher, Scholar)
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«It is easy -- terribly easy -- to shake a man's faith in himself. To take advantage of that to break a man's spirit is devil's work.»
Author: George Bernard Shaw
(Critic, Essayist, Playwright)
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«Take advantage of every opportunity to practice your communication skills so that when important occasions arise, you will have the gift, the style, the sharpness, the clarity, and the emotions to affect other people.»
Author: Jim Rohn
(Author, Speaker)
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«In order to govern, the question is not to follow out a more or less valid theory but to build with whatever materials are at hand. The inevitable must be accepted and turned to advantage.»
Author: Napoleon Bonaparte
(Emperor, General, Politician)
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«The advantage of the emotions is that they lead us astray.»
Author: Oscar Wilde
(Critic, Dramatist, Novelist, Poet)
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«Public employment contributes neither to advantage nor happiness. It is but honorable exile from one's family and affairs.»
Author: Thomas Jefferson
(Author, President)
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«It might be argued, that to be a knave is the gift of fortune, but to play the fool to advantage it is necessary to be a learned man»
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