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“Tell me, was I the sort of person who took your elbow when cars passed on the street, touched your cheek while you talked, combed your wet hair, stopped by the side of the road in the country to point out certain constellations, standing behind you so that you had the advantage of leaning and looking up?”

Persons Country Certain Sides Behinds Streets Car Hair Advantage Standing Touched Cheeks Wet Behind You Constellations Elbows Wet Hair

Book:Man Walks Into a Room

Source: Man Walks Into a Room

“The only type of men Julia's mother had warned her about were wealthy industrialist who polluted the environment and took advantage of third-world countries. And Republilicans.”

Men World Country Mother Environment Type Advantage Thirds Wealthy Third World Julia Third World Countries

Author:Cathie Linz

“There’s a lot of things wrong with this country, but one of the few things still right with it is that a man can steer clear of the organized bullshit if he really wants to. It’s a goddamned luxury, and if I were you, I’d take advantage of it while you can.”

Ifs Men Want Stills Country Clear Advantage Luxury Organized Bullshit Steers

Book:Fear And Loathing In America: The Brutal Odyssey of an Outlaw Journalist

Source: Fear And Loathing In America: The Brutal Odyssey of an Outlaw Journalist

“We cannot enter into alliance with neighbouring princes until we are acquainted with their designs. We are not fit to lead an army on the march unless we are familiar with the face of the country - its mountains and forests, its pitfalls and precipices, its marshes and swamps. We shall be unable to turn natural advantages to account unless we make use of local guides.”

Art War Country Use Faces Turns Natural Design Fit Mountain Advantage Accounts Army Guides Locals Forests Familiar March Art Of War Alliances Swamps Precipice Pitfalls Marshes

Book:The Complete Art of War

Source: The Complete Art of War

“The progression of physical science is much more connected with your prosperity than is usually imagined. You owe to experimental philosophy some of the most important and peculiar of your advantages. It is not by foreign conquests chiefly that you are become great, but by a conquest of nature in your own country.”

Important Country Philosophy Science Advantage Prosperity Connected Experiments Peculiar Conquest Progression Physical Science

Book:The Collected Works of Sir Humphry Davy (etc.)

Source: The Collected Works of Sir Humphry Davy (etc.)

“Next came the Patent laws. These began in England in 1624; and, in this country, with the adoption of our constitution. Before then [these?], any man might instantly use what another had invented; so that the inventor had no special advantage from his own invention. The patent system changed this; secured to the inventor, for a limited time, the exclusive use of his invention; and thereby added the fuel of interest to the fire of genius, in the discovery and production of new and useful things.”

“A small child from a developing country has the advantage, from a very early age, of having access to toys which structure his mind, which constitute a sure advantage over the little African child who has never even held a modern toy.”

Mind Children Littles Country Age Modern Advantage Structure Access Developing Toys Small Child Developing Countries

Author:Abdoulaye Wade

“Whenever a single definite object is made the supreme end of the State, be it the advantage of a class, the safety of the power of the country, the greatest happiness of the greatest number, or the support of any speculative idea, the State becomes for the time inevitably absolute. Liberty alone demands for its realization the limitation of the public authority, for liberty is the only object which benefits all alike, and provokes no sincere opposition.”

Source: The History of Freedom: Great Event

“It is here we come to the heart of the matter. The economic principle of comparative advantage', 'a country may, in return for manufactured commodities, import corn even if it can be grown with less labour than in the country from which it is imported”

Ifs Heart May Country Matter Principles Economic Return Advantage Economics Labour Commodity Corn Imports Comparative Advantage

Author:David Ricardo