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«By concentrating on what is good in people, by appealing to their idealism and their sense of justice, and by asking them to put their faith in the future, socialists put themselves at a severe disadvantage.»
«We always deceive ourselves twice about the people we love - first to their advantage, then to their disadvantage.»
Author: Albert Camus
(Essayist, Novelist, Playwright)
| Keywords:
advantage, advantaged, deceive, disadvantage, disadvantaged, First to, The People, to advantage, twice
«Some minds seem almost to create themselves, springing up under every disadvantage and working their solitary but irresistible way through a thousand obstacles.»
Author: Washington Irving
(Writer)
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Mind
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disadvantage, disadvantaged, irresistible, solitary, springing
«POLITICIAN, n. An eel in the fundamental mud upon which the superstructure of organized society is reared. When we wriggles he mistakes the agitation of his tail for the trembling of the edifice. As compared with the statesman, he suffers the disadvantage of being alive.»
Author: Ambrose Bierce
(Editor, Journalist, Writer)
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disadvantage, edifices, eel, Eels, organized society, reared, superstructure, superstructures, The Statesman, trembling, wriggle, wriggles, wriggling
«That is the whole secret of successful fighting. Get your enemy at a disadvantage; and never, on any account, fight him on equal terms.»
Author: George Bernard Shaw
(Critic, Essayist, Playwright)
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account, disadvantage, disadvantaged, enemy, equal, fight, fighting, secret, successful, take account, take into account, terms
«It is in human nature to relax, when not compelled by personal advantage or disadvantage.»
Author: Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
(Dramatist, Novelist, Playwright, Poet)
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compelled, disadvantage, relax
«Style is the dress of thoughts; and let them be ever so just, if your style is homely, coarse, and vulgar, they will appear to as much disadvantage, and be as ill received, as your person, though ever so well-proportioned, would if dressed in rags, dirt, and tatters.»
Author: Lord Chesterfield
(Diplomat, Statesman, Wit)
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coarse, disadvantage, ever so, proportioned, rags, tatter, tattered, tatters, well-proportioned
«More than once I had seen a noble who had gotten his enemy at a disadvantage stop to pray before cutting his throat.»
«A man should be careful never to tell tales of himself to his own disadvantage; people may be amused, and laugh at the time, but they will be remembered and brought up against him upon some subsequent occasion»
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