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“The main difference is, in 'Cold Case,' the victim sometimes had been dead for decades - you didn't have the advantage of being able to interview the victim. You had to piece together the circumstances surrounding the crime from witnesses and other evidence. 'SVU' is much more immediate in that you can talk to the victim.”

Sometimes Able Together Differences Cases Pieces Crime Cold Circumstances Evidence Advantage Victim Decades Witness Interviews Cold Case

Author:Danny Pino

“Every medium has its advantages and weaknesses and there are many things I can put down on paper that I might not be able to put into film or into a stage performance. In each form, one can communicate powerfully in different ways.”

Way I Can Different Might Able Film Form Stage Paper Weakness Advantage Performances Communicate Mediums Different Ways Stage Performance

Author:Lawrence Wright

“Heaven is the perfect place to raise children. Everything will be just the way it was intended to be in the beginning, a perfect environment without pain and danger, accidents and death and the horrors of this world. Babies won't have to cry. - They'll have everything they need. We'll be able to read their little minds, and we won't have to wonder what they're needing. Just think of all the advantages of rearing children in Heaven. It will be pure pleasure!”

“There are no accidents so unlucky from which clever people are not able to reap some advantage, and none so lucky that the foolish are not able to turn them to their own disadvantage.”

People Able Turns Events Lucky Advantage Accidents Foolish Clever Reap Disadvantages So Lucky Unlucky

Author:Francois de La Rochefoucauld

“A true master of politics is able to calculate, down to the smallest fraction, the advantages to which he may put his very faults.”

May Able Politics Power Masters Advantage Faults Smallest Fractions

Author:Napoleon Bonaparte

“Christianity possesses the great advantage over Judaism of being represented as coming from the mouth of the first Teacher not as a statutory but as a moral religion, and as thus entering into the closest relation with reason so that, through reason, it was able of itself, without historical learning, to be spread at all times and among all peoples with the greatest trustworthiness.”

Firsts Reason Able Moral Christianity Teacher Mouths Advantage Relation Historical Spread All Time Closest Entering Judaism Trustworthiness

Book:Religion Within the Limits of Reason Alone

Source: Religion Within the Limits of Reason Alone

“Mankind will possess incalculable advantages and extraordinary control over human behavior when the scientific investigator will be able to subject his fellow men to the same external analysis he would employ for any natural object, and when the human mind will contemplate itself not from within but from without.”

Men Mind Humans Able Natural Subjects Mankind Objects Behavior Advantage Fellows Extraordinary Analysis Human Mind Contemplating Human Behavior Fellow Man Investigators

Book:Essential works

Source: Essential works

“It is well known that we fight in God's cause... but unless God helps us by a miracle the English, who have faster and handier ships than ours, and many more long-range guns, and who know their advantage just as well as we do, will never close with us at all, but stand aloof and knock us to pieces with their culverins, without our being able to do them any serious hurt. So we are sailing against England in the confident hope of a miracle.”

Knows Wells Long Helping Able Fighting Causes Hurt Known Pieces Serious Gun Advantage Miracle England Ships Faster Range Sailing Well Known God Help Aloof God Help Us

Author:Nicholas Rodger

“The whole power of cunning is privative; to say nothing, and to do nothing , is the utmost of its reach. Yet men, thus narrow by nature and mean by art, are sometimes able to rise by the miscarriages of bravery and the openness of integrity, and, watching failures and snatching opportunities, obtain advantages which belong to higher characters.”

Men Mean Art Sometimes Whole Character Able Opportunity Higher Integrity Advantage Bravery Openness Cunning Miscarriage

Book:The Rambler: A Periodical Paper, Published in 1750, 1751, 1752

Source: The Rambler: A Periodical Paper, Published in 1750, 1751, 1752

“I have never been able to be so allured by the prospect of advantages or so terrified by misfortunes, swayed by honours or fettered by affection, nay not even so smitten by the fear of death, as to enter upon marriage.”

Able Advantage Affection Honour Misfortunes Terrified Fear Of Death Smitten

Author:Elizabeth I