“Yet the success of plans and the advantage to be derived from them do not at all times agree, seeing the gods claim to themselves the right to decide as to the final result.” SuccessResultsPlansSeeingAdvantageClaimsAgreeFinalsAll Time Author:Ammianus Marcellinus
“I have been dealing with claims that I cheated and had an unfair advantage in winning my seven Tours since 1999.” Has BeensWinningAdvantageClaimsSevenUnfairCheatedI CheatedUnfair Advantage Author:Lance Armstrong
“It is often asserted that woman owes all the advantages of the position she occupies to-day to Christianity, but the facts of history show that the Christian Church has done nothing specifically for woman's elevation. In the general march of civilization, she has necessarily reaped the advantage of man's higher development, but we must not claim for Christianity all that has been achieved by science, discovery and invention.” MenHas BeensDoneFactsShowsChristianChurchChristianityAtheismPositionDevelopmentHigherCivilizationDiscoveryAdvantageClaimsPositive AtheismInventionMarchElevationChristian ChurchDiscovery And Invention Author:Elizabeth Cady Stanton
“The short story is at an advantage over the novel, and can claim its nearer kinship to poetry, because it must be more concentrated, can be more visionary, and is not weighed down (as the novel is bound to be) by facts, explanation, or analysis. I do not mean to say that the short story is by any means exempt from the laws of narrative: it must observe them, but on its own terms.” MeanFactsStoriesLawTermFictionNovelAdvantageClaimsBoundsNarrativeAnalysisExplanationPoetry IsShort StoryVisionariesKinship Book:Stories Source: Stories
“If I cannot narrate a life of adventurous and daring exploits, fortunately I have no heavy crimes to confess: and, if I do not rise in the estimation of the reader for acts of gallantry and devotion in my country's cause, at least I may claim the merit of zealous and persevering continuance in my vocation. We are all of us variously gifted from Above, and he who is content to walk, instead of to run, on his allotted path through life, although he may not so rapidly attain the goal, has the advantage of not being out of breath upon his arrival.” IfsMayBookCountryRunningCausesGoalWalksPathCrimeReaderAdvantageClaimsBreathsHeavyDevotionMeritDaringGiftedVocationExploitsAdventurousArrivalsEstimationZealousContinuanceGallantry Book:Peter Simple Source: Peter Simple
“The politicians of New York as not so fastidious as some gentlemen are, as to disclosing the principles on which they act. They boldly preach what they practice...if they are defeated, they expect to retire from office. If they are successful, they claim, as a matter of right, the advantages of success. They see nothing wrong in the rule that to the victor belongs the spoils of the enemy.” IfsMatterEnemyPrinciplesPracticeSuccessfulNew YorkPoliticianOfficeAdvantageClaimsGentlemanRetiringDefeatedSpoilFastidious Author:William L. Marcy
“According to Buddhism, each person is a Buddha who has forgotten their original nature. If we in the pampered West, having grown up with so many advantages, could not claim our own health and our agency, preferring to see ourselves as helpless victims, then who would do it? Who would take responsibility for the world?” IfsWorldPersonsResponsibilityBuddhismAdvantageClaimsOriginalsVictimWestForgottenAgencyHelplessTaking ResponsibilityPampered Book:2012: The Return of Quetzalcoatl Source: 2012: The Return of Quetzalcoatl
“It's amazing how relaxing it is not to claim you know more than you do. I'm surprised that those who claim to speak in the name of god don't take more advantage of this relief.” KnowsNamesSpeakAdvantageClaimsRelief Author:Christopher Hitchens
“If you're writing a book where you want to make a positive truth claim, then you should absolutely call it nonfiction or memoir. If you don't want to make that claim - if that's not what's important to you; if you're more interested in storytelling and interiority and interpersonal relationships than in objective, checkable facts about the world - then why wouldn't you call it a novel, and take advantage of what that gets you, of the extra freedom, of belonging to the tradition of the novel?” IfsWorldWantShouldWritingImportantBookFactsNovelAdvantageTraditionClaimsMemoirObjectivesStorytellingExtrasBelongingNonfictionWriting A BookWhat's ImportantInterpersonalInterpersonal Relationship Author:Elif Batuman
“A woman might claim to retain some of the child's faculties, although very limited and defused, simply because she has not been encouraged to learn methods of thought and develop a disciplined mind. As long as education remains largely induction ignorance will retain these advantages over learning and it is time that women impudently put them to work.” MindChildrenLongMightTimeIgnoranceAdvantageClaimsMethodRemainsFaculty Book:the female eunuch Source: the female eunuch