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It's easy to be led astray when you're so broken. People...

It's easy to be led astray when you're so broken. People take advantage of you.

Quote by Willie Aames about nation, people

The accumulation of skill and science which has been directed to diminish the difficulty of producing manufactured goods, has not been beneficial to that country alone in which it is concentrated; distant kingdoms have participated in its advantages.

Quote by Charles Babbage about concentration, difficulties, science, country

The economy of human time is the next advantage of...

The economy of human time is the next advantage of machinery in manufactures.

Quote by Charles Babbage about economy, human imperfections, time

Well, if you look at all of the cultures in America, this is a great opportunity for us to really get acquainted with the rest of the world. America is the only place you can do that, but we don't have sense enough to take advantage of that.

Quote by Erykah Badu about chance, common sense, sense, world

An advantage that the Hague Conferences lack, in contrast...

An advantage that the Hague Conferences lack, in contrast to the peace associations and the Interparliamentary Union, is a bureau.

Quote by Fredrik Bajer about union, peace

There are times when fear is good. It must keep its...

There are times when fear is good. It must keep its watchful place at the heart's controls. There is advantage in the wisdom won from pain.

Quote by Aeschylus about fear, pain, wisdom, heart, good, good luck

To say that people would cease to come to California if they would have to pay more taxes is to underestimate the advantages of being in California - mightily.

Quote by Warren Beatty about being, people

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.

Quote by Napoleon Bonaparte about question, order

What is fame? The advantage of being known by people of...

What is fame? The advantage of being known by people of whom you yourself know nothing, and for whom you care as little.

Quote by George Gordon Byron about fame, nothing, being, people

We always deceive ourselves twice about the people we...

We always deceive ourselves twice about the people we love - first to their advantage, then to their disadvantage.

Quote by Albert Camus about love, people

Men become much more attractive when they start looking...

Men become much more attractive when they start looking older. But it doesn't do much for women, though we do have an advantage: make-up.

Quote by Bette Davis about man

Nor is it the least advantage to health, accruing from such a way of life, that it expose those who follow it to fewer temptations to vice, than persons who live in crowded society.

Quote by William Falconer about people, vice, society, life

The morning air, on the contrary, so celebrated both by poets and philosophers for its benign and cheering effects upon the mind and body, is enjoyed in high perfection by persons of this way of life; and the advantages they derive from thence in...

Quote by William Falconer about poets, people, perfection, air, body, mind, life

I don't consider myself militant but I have the advantage...

I don't consider myself militant but I have the advantage of having worked in most countries and continents of the world.

Quote by Sean Connery about country, world

You should not have taken advantage of my sensibility to...

You should not have taken advantage of my sensibility to steal into my affections without my consent.

Quote by Alexander Hamilton about opinion, sensibility

I reflect more. I want to take advantage of every moment...

I reflect more. I want to take advantage of every moment because I have less of them.

Quote by Julio Iglesias about moment

All travel has its advantages. If the passenger visits better countries, he may learn to improve his own. And if fortune carries him to worse, he may learn to enjoy it.

Quote by Samuel Johnson about country, wealth

Few enterprises of great labor or hazard would be...

Few enterprises of great labor or hazard would be undertaken if we had not the power of magnifying the advantages we expect from them.

Quote by Samuel Johnson about unforeseen, power

That God cannot lie, is no advantage to your argument, ...

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.

Quote by Thomas Paine about god, lie

To establish any mode to abolish war, however advantageous it might be to Nations, would be to take from such Government the most lucrative of its branches.

Quote by Thomas Paine about nation, war

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