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“Mandates are rarely won on election night. They are earned after Inauguration Day by leaders who spend their political capital wisely, taking advantage of events without overreaching.”

Political Night Leader Events Advantage Election Mandates Inauguration Taking Advantage Overreaching

Author:Ron Fournier

“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

“There was at all events one advantage in the choice of this day to my birth; my birthday throughout the whole of my childhood was a day of public rejoicing.”

Whole Choices Childhood Events Birth Advantage This Day Rejoice My Birthday

Book:Ecce Homo

Source: Ecce Homo

“It appears to general observation, that revolutions create genius and talents; but those events do no more than bring them forward. There is existing in man, a mass of sense lying in a dormant state, and which, unless something excites it to action, will descend with him, in that condition, to the grave. As it is to the advantage of society that the whole of its faculties should be employed, the construction of government ought to be such as to bring forward, by a quiet and regular operation, all that extent of capacity which never fails to appear in revolutions.”

Source: Rights of Man: Being an Answer to Mr. Burke's Attack on the French Revolution

“Poetry operates by raising our curiosity, engaging the mind by degrees to take an interest in the event, keeping that event suspended, and surprising at last with an unexpected catastrophe. The painter's art is more confined, and has nothing that corresponds with, or perhaps is equivalent to, this power and advantage of leading the mind on, till attention is totally engaged. What is done by Painting, must be done at one blow; curiosity has received at once all the satisfaction it can ever have.”

Source: The Discourses of Sir Joshua Reynolds

“I see, therefore, the rentier aspect of capitalism as a transitional phase which will disappear when it has done its work. And with the disappearance of its rentier aspect much else in it besides will suffer a sea-change. It will be, moreover, a great advantage of the order of events which I am advocating, that the euthanasia of the rentier, of the functionless investor, will be nothing sudden, merely a gradual but prolonged continuance of what we have seen recently in Great Britain, and will need no revolution.”

Source: General Theory Of Employment , Interest And Money

“Busy not yourself in looking forward to the events of to-morrow; but whatever may be those of the days Providence may yet assign you neglect not to turn them to advantage.”

May Turns Events Advantage Busy Neglect Providence Looking Forward Morrow

Author:Horace

“Since events are not metaphors, the literal-minded have a certain advantage in dealing with them.”

Certain Events Advantage Metaphor Literal

Author:Mason Cooley

“View life as a learning opportunity. Ask God what He wants you to learn from the situations you face. . . . When we set aside specific time to listen, He often encourages us with His presence and promises, and interprets to some degree the circumstances of life. Take advantage of the natural lull after hard times when you're pulling together the pieces to sort through the events and ferret out the lessons.”

Want Hard God Together Faces Asks Opportunity Natural Views Situation Pieces Events Circumstances Promise Lessons Degrees Advantage Hard Times Pulling Lulls Ferrets Pulling Together

Author:Jean Fleming

“One event makes another. What we anticipate seldom occurs; what we least expected generally happens; and time can only prove which is most for our advantage.”

Happens Events Prove Advantage Expected Anticipate

Book:Henrietta Temple a Love Story by Benjamin Disraeli

Source: Henrietta Temple a Love Story by Benjamin Disraeli

“In the event of atomic war there is a tremendous biological advantage in the so-called undeveloped areas that have a high birth rate and high death rate because, man, they can plow under those mutations.”

Men War Events Birth Advantage Areas Rate Mutation Atomic War Birth Rate

Author:William S. Burroughs