
— Charles Dupin French mathematician 1784 - 1873
Источник: The Commercial Power of Great Britain, 1925, p. xi
Speech against Philip II of Macedon (351 BC), in Olynthiacs; Philippics (1930) as translated by James Herbert Vince, p. 99
— Charles Dupin French mathematician 1784 - 1873
Источник: The Commercial Power of Great Britain, 1925, p. xi
„Whatever goes wrong can be used to your advantage, providing it goes wrong enough.“
— Tom Robbins, Even Cowgirls Get the Blues
Источник: Even Cowgirls Get the Blues
— Mustafa Kemal Atatürk Turkish army officer, revolutionary, and the first President of Turkey 1881 - 1938
As quoted in Kemalizm, Laiklik ve Demokrasi [Kemalism, Laicism and Democracy] (1994) by Ahmet Taner Kışlalı
Контексте: Religion is an important institution. A nation without religion cannot survive. Yet it is also very important to note that religion is a link between Allah and the individual believer. The brokerage of the pious cannot be permitted. Those who use religion for their own benefit are detestable. We are against such a situation and will not allow it. Those who use religion in such a manner have fooled our people; it is against just such people that we have fought and will continue to fight. Know that whatever conforms to reason, logic, and the advantages and needs of our people conforms equally to Islam. If our religion did not conform to reason and logic, it would not be the perfect religion, the final religion.
— Jean-Baptiste Say French economist and businessman 1767 - 1832
Источник: A Treatise On Political Economy (Fourth Edition) (1832), Book III, On Consumption, Chapter VI, Section II, p. 431
— Joseph Yates (judge) English barrister and judge 1722 - 1770
4 Burr. Part IV., 2394.
Dissenting in Millar v Taylor (1769)
„We may with advantage at times forget what we know.“
— Publilio Siro Latin writer
Maxim 234
Sentences, The Moral Sayings of Publius Syrus, a Roman Slave
„The advantage of poetry over life is that poetry, if it is sharp enough, may last.“
— Louise Glück American poet 1943
Источник: "Against Sincerity", in American Poetry Review, Vol. XXII, No. 5 (1993), p. 29
— Karl Popper, книга The Open Universe
The Open Universe : An Argument for Indeterminism (1992), p. 44
— Virginia Woolf, книга Orlando: A Biography
Источник: Orlando: A Biography (1928), Ch. 3
Контексте: We may take advantage of this pause in the narrative to make certain statements. Orlando had become a woman — there is no denying it. But in every other respect, Orlando remained precisely as he had been. The change of sex, though it altered their future, did nothing whatever to alter their identity. Their faces remained, as their portraits prove, practically the same. His memory — but in future we must, for convention's sake, say 'her' for 'his,' and 'she' for 'he' — her memory then, went back through all the events of her past life without encountering any obstacle. Some slight haziness there may have been, as if a few dark drops had fallen into the clear pool of memory; certain things had become a little dimmed; but that was all. The change seemed to have been accomplished painlessly and completely and in such a way that Orlando herself showed no surprise at it. Many people, taking this into account, and holding that such a change of sex is against nature, have been at great pains to prove (1) that Orlando had always been a woman, (2) that Orlando is at this moment a man. Let biologists and psychologists determine. It is enough for us to state the simple fact; Orlando was a man till the age of thirty; when he became a woman and has remained so ever since.
„The ability to learn faster than competitors may be the only sustainable competitive advantage.“
— Arie de Geus Dutch businessman 1930
Arie P. de Geus, " Planning as learning https://hbr.org/1988/03/planning-as-learning/ar/1." Harvard Business Review, March/April 1988: 70-74.
— Peter Singer Australian philosopher 1946
Источник: The Expanding Circle: Ethics, Evolution, and Moral Progress (1981), Chapter 6, A New Understanding Of Ethics, p. 157
— Joseph Addison politician, writer and playwright 1672 - 1719
No. 166 (10 September 1711).
The Spectator (1711–1714)
— Thomas Jefferson 3rd President of the United States of America 1743 - 1826
Louisiana Treaty of Cession, Art. III (30 April 1803)
1800s, First Presidential Administration (1801–1805)
— Wilhelm Liebknecht German socialist politician 1826 - 1900
No Compromise – No Political Trading (1899)
— Stanley Baldwin Former Prime Minister of the United Kingdom 1867 - 1947
Speech to the thirtieth anniversary of the Junior Imperial League in Kingsway Hall (19 June 1926), quoted in Our Inheritance (London: Hodder and Stoughton, 1938), p. 19.
1926
„The greatest advantage in gambling lies in not playing at all.“
— Girolamo Cardano Italian Renaissance mathematician, physician, astrologer 1501 - 1576
[Gerolamo Cardano, Liber de ludo aleae, around 1560]
— George Washington first President of the United States 1732 - 1799
Letter to Benjamin Harrison V (10 October 1784)
1780s