God has given me health and a great job that I shouldn't take advantage of.

Human felicity is produced not as much by great pieces of good fortune that seldom happen as by little advantages that occur every day.

As we enjoy great advantages from the inventions of others, we should be glad of an opportunity to serve others by any invention of ours, and this we should do freely and generously.

During the Great Depression, African Americans were faced with problems that were not unlike those experienced by the most disadvantaged groups in society. The Great Depression had a leveling effect, and all groups really experienced hard times: poor whites, poor blacks.

The great advantage about telling the truth is that nobody ever believes it.

While we should certainly be investing in our own STEM education, we should take advantage of the thousands of international students who come here to study and are ready to fill these gaps immediately upon graduation.

The man who does not read good books has no advantage over the man who cannot read them.

That God cannot lie, is no advantage to your argument, because it is no proof that priests can not, or that the Bible does not.

The human brain had a vast memory storage. It made us curious and very creative. Those were the characteristics that gave us an advantage - curiosity, creativity and memory. And that brain did something very special. It invented an idea called 'the future.'

Do you know, it's funny, but I never thought of being blind as a disadvantage, and I never thought of being black as a disadvantage.

One of the disadvantages of wine is that it makes a man mistake words for thoughts.

One advantage of talking to yourself is that you know at least somebody's listening.

Of course I took advantage of the publicity that surrounded my friendship with Princess Margaret.

Texas, with her superior natural advantages, must become a point of attraction, and the policy of establishing with her the earliest relations of friendship and commerce will not escape the eye of statesmen.

I want to use my connections with coaches, players, celebrities, whomever, and if I can take that friendship and use it to help someone else, I'm going to take advantage of that. I'm not going to apologize for that.

It's only through Christ that we can take full advantage of God's mercy and forgiveness through repentance in Jesus' name.

I have great Indian genes! You know, I'm lazy. I want to take advantage of the fact that I have a great metabolism. When I start getting fat, I'll work on it! I like food, and I don't like the gym, and as long as I look like this without doing anything, why bother?

When you have a certain fitness projection, it's going to give you an advantage. Having strength, stamina and speed is important because I'm working with dogs who can kill me.

We took advantage of the running boom, which became the jogging boom, which became the fitness boom... and we've benefited from all of that.

When I work with countries struggling to pay for budgets or finance trade deficits, I reflect on how Americans do not spend a moment considering the unique advantages of being able to issue bonds and print money freely.

Wealth is not without its advantages and the case to the contrary, although it has often been made, has never proved widely persuasive.

There's some downsides to being famous, which are not even worth mentioning. But to combat the bad sides of being famous, you really should take advantage of the good sides. The good sides are, you can use that fame to get projects you might not normally get.

Celebrity is the advantage of being known to people who we don't know, and who don't know us.

I was a disadvantaged child from a non-educated family, yet I had the advantage of being in the company of great teachers.