“On the contrary, if they are treated with justice and humanity, proper example and the advantages of education given them, the coming years will be as bright and prosperous to the unfortunate race as the past has been dark and painful.” IfsYearsHas BeensPastHumanityGivenJusticeDarkRaceExampleAdvantagePainfulContraryTreatedUnfortunateProsperous Book:SERVING THE REPUBLIC Source: SERVING THE REPUBLIC
“If it is possible to have a linear unit that depends on no other quantity, it would seem natural to prefer it. Moreover, a mensural unit taken from the earth itself offers another advantage, that of being perfectly analogous to all the real measurements that in ordinary usage are also made upon the earth, such as the distance between two places or the area of some tract, for example. It is far more natural in practice to refer geographical distances to a quadrant of a great circle than to the length of a pendulum.” IfsMadeTwoRealSeemsEarthScienceNaturalPracticeTakenExampleDependsOffersOrdinaryAdvantageAreasDistanceDefinitionsCirclesLengthQuantityUnitsMeasurementLinearUsagePendulums Author:Nicolas de Caritat, marquis de Condorcet
“One of the really fascinating areas is marketplaces that take advantage of mobile devices. Ridesharing is the obvious example, but that's just the start of it, of selling goods and services with lightweight mobile apps.” ExampleAdvantageAreasObviousSellingFascinatingDevicesGoodsMobileMarketplaceAppsGoods And Services Author:John Collison
“Though some still see the Internet, for example, as a democratic structure for international individual expression, it is more realistic to recognize it as only the latest technological vehicle to be turned, sooner or later, to corporate advantage - for advertising, marketing and general corporate aggrandizement.” StillsIndividualExampleExpressionInternetAdvantageStructureDemocraticMarketingInternationalAdvertisingCorporateRealisticVehicleSooner Or LaterTechnologicalIndividual Expression Author:Herbert Schiller
“A wise and good man will turn examples of all sorts to his own advantage. The good he will make his patterns, and strive to equal or excel them. The bad he will by all means avoid.” MenMeanTurnsWiseExampleEqualAdvantageStrivePatternsGood Man Author:Thomas a Kempis
“We chose to do this work mathematically, which has the advantage of precision but is not always appreciated by readers. It is perhaps for this reason that anthropologists have not shown much interest in these models, unlike economists, for example, for whom the use of mathematics poses no problem. However, one could reach the same conclusions by using just a bit of common sense.” ReasonUseProblemBitsInterestCommonExampleReaderModelsAdvantageMathematicsCommon SenseConclusionEconomistNo ProblemAppreciatedPrecisionAnthropologists Author:Luigi Luca Cavalli-Sforza
“We took advantage of [the Indians'] ignorance and inexperience to incline them the more easily toward treachery, lewdness, avarice, and every sort of inhumanity and cruelty, after the example and pattern of our ways.” WayAmericaExampleIgnoranceAdvantagePatternsCorruptionCrueltyAvariceTreacheryInhumanityInclineInexperience Author:Michel de Montaigne
“While no real money came down, my family gave me a good education and a marvelous example of how people should behave, and in the end that was more valuable than money. Being surrounded by the right values from the beginning is an immense treasure. Warrenhad that. It even has a financial advantage.” PeopleShouldRealEndsValuesExampleAdvantageMy FamilyFinancialValuableTreasureBehaveImmenseMarvelousGood Education Author:Charlie Munger