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Advantage Quotes - Page 17

I have been dealing with claims that I cheated and had an unfair advantage in winning my seven Tours since 1999.

I have been dealing with claims that I cheated and had an unfair advantage in winning my seven Tours since 1999.

"Armstrong gives up fight against doping charges". Interview with David Mark, www.abc.net.au. August 24, 2012.

One of the advantages of science is that one's work, ultimately, is either replicated or it is not.

Kay Redfield Jamison (2014). “An Unquiet Mind: A memoir of moods and madness”, p.124, Pan Macmillan

The single greatest advantage anyone can take into any battle is hope.

Karen Marie Moning (2016). “The Fever Series 7-Book Bundle: Darkfever, Bloodfever, Faefever, Dreamfever, Shadowfever, Iced, Burned”, p.134, Dell

But that’s one advantage of fiction, you can speed up time.

Julian Barnes, Vanessa Guignery, Ryan Roberts (2009). “Conversations with Julian Barnes”, p.74, Univ. Press of Mississippi

Men who possess all the advantages of life are in a state where there are many accidents to disorder and discompose, but few to please them.

Jonathan Swift (1752). “The works of D. Jonathan Swift ...: To which is prefixed, the doctor's life, with remarks on his writings, from the Earl of Orrery and others, not to be found in any former edition of his works.Dublin printed”, p.279

I am myself impressed by the great social advantages of increasing the stock of capital until it ceases to be scarce.

John Maynard Keynes, Royal Economic Society (Great Britain) (1971). “The collected writings of John Maynard Keynes”

Truth can never be an enemy to true religion, which appears always to the best advantage when it is most examined.

George Atherton Aitken, John Arbuthnot (1892). “The Life and Works of John Arbuthnot, M.D.: Fellow of the Royal College of Physicians”

The rogue has everywhere the advantage.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1850). “Dramatic works: Comprising Faust, Iphigenia in Tauris, Torquato Tasso, Egmont. Transl. by Anna Swanwick. And Goetz v. Berlichingen. Transl. by Sir Walter Scott. Carefully rev”, p.364

The written word has this advantage, that it lasts and can await the time when it is allowed to take effect.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (2015). “Maxims and Reflections”, p.134, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe