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«To govern is always to choose among disadvantages.»
Author: Charles de Gaulle
| About:
Choice,
Government,
Politics
| Keywords:
disadvantaged, disadvantages
«I used to think I was poor. Then they told me I wasn't poor, I was needy. Then they told me it was self-defeating to think of myself as needy. I was deprived. (Oh not deprived but rather underprivileged.) Then they told me that underprivileged was overused. I was disadvantaged. I still don't have a dime. But I have a great vocabulary.»
Author: Jules Feiffer
| Keywords:
deprived, disadvantaged, needy, overused, self-defeating, underprivileged
«Truth, though it has many disadvantages, is at least changeless. You can always find it where you left it.»
«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
«Sometimes it was worth all the disadvantages of marriage just to have that: one friend in an indifferent world»
«With disadvantages enough to bring him to humility, a Scotsman is one of the proudest things alive.»
Author: Oliver Goldsmith
(Dramatist, Essayist, Novelist, Poet)
| Keywords:
disadvantaged, disadvantages, proudest, Scotsman, Scotsmen
«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)
| About:
Mind
| Keywords:
disadvantage, disadvantaged, irresistible, solitary, springing
«Physically you are a human being, but mentally you are incomplete. Given that we have this physical human form, we must safeguard our mental capacity for judgment. For that, we cannot take out insurance; the insurance company is within: self-discipline, self-awareness, and a clear realization of the disadvantages of anger and the positive effects of kindness.»
Author: Dalai Lama
| Keywords:
disadvantaged, disadvantages, effects, incomplete, insurance, insurance company, mental capacity, physically, realization, safeguard, self-discipline, self awareness, take out
«One of the great disadvantages of hurry is that it takes such a long time.»
Author: G. K. Chesterton
(Critic, Essayist, Novelist, Poet)
| Keywords:
disadvantaged, disadvantages, hurried, hurries, hurry, long time, The Great
«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)
| Keywords:
account, disadvantage, disadvantaged, enemy, equal, fight, fighting, secret, successful, take account, take into account, terms
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