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The great disadvantage of getting older is to be obliged to relive the salient economic events of one's youth, with nothing learned and nothing forgotten.
James Buchan
Great
Youth
Getting Older
Events
Nothing
Older
Relive
Economic
Obliged
Disadvantage
Learned
Getting
Forgotten
There are many advantages in their being accustomed to the use of arms, and no possible disadvantage.
Joel Barlow
Possible
Disadvantage
Advantages
Arms
Accustomed
Being
Use
Many
High-end BREW phones aren't nearly as limited a gaming platform as you might think - they are a lot more powerful than an original Play Station, for example. Java phones, however, are saddled with a huge disadvantage for gaming.
John Carmack
You
Phones
Example
Think
Station
More
High-End
Disadvantage
Powerful
For Example
Limited
However
Lot
Huge
Than
Might
Java
Brew
Gaming
Original
Platform
Play
Nearly
If you start chasing around trying to get steals for your own benefit, then you really put your defense at a disadvantage. It's not a big thing for me; if it happens, great.
John Stockton
Great
Me
You
Chasing
Big
Own
Defense
Benefit
Steals
Disadvantage
Put
Around
Get
Trying
Big Thing
Happens
Then
Really
Your
Thing
Start
I think we have a tax policy that was designed before Microsoft even went public. I think we've got to change - we're at a huge disadvantage around the world.
John T. Chambers
Change
World
Before
Think
Disadvantage
Policy
Around
Got
Huge
Microsoft
Tax
Tax Policy
Public
Even
Designed
I know that in the battle of ideas, Republican politicians are at a distinct disadvantage. Their fundamental philosophy - which I characterize as survival of the fittest, richest and whitest - is too callous for most Americans.
John Yarmuth
Survival
Battle
Politicians
Too
Philosophy
Distinct
Characterize
Disadvantage
Ideas
Know
Most
Callous
Fittest
American
Which
Republican
Richest
Fundamental
In Great Britain the price of food is at a higher level than in any other country, and consequently, the British artisan labours at a disadvantage in proportion to the higher rate of his food.
Joseph Hume
Food
Great
Country
Other
Great Britain
Rate
Proportion
Higher
Higher Level
Price
Disadvantage
His
Than
Labours
Artisan
Any
Any Other Country
Level
Britain
British
Consequently
If your kid doesn't have broadband access, that's a real disadvantage for participating in modern education.
Julius Genachowski
Education
Broadband
Kid
Disadvantage
Participating
Access
Real
Modern
Modern Education
Your
It takes more time and energy for women to get ready to go on camera than it does men, and that means there are fewer available minutes to focus on actually getting the job done. That's a disadvantage.
Kasie Hunt
Time
Women
Job
Focus
Men
Energy
Minutes
More
Disadvantage
Takes
Does
Ready
Go
Camera
Than
Get
Done
Fewer
Getting
Available
Means
Actually
I don't find an advantage or disadvantage in being a woman when reporting. What little advantages there might be in some instances is cancelled out by the basic lack of lavatories round the world for women.
Kate Adie
Woman
Women
World
Out
Find
Some
Disadvantage
Advantage
Advantages
Reporting
Cancelled
Lack
Being
Little
Might
Round
Basic
The corporate income tax, in particular, is a tax that puts American corporations at a disadvantage.
Ken Buck
Corporate
Corporations
Disadvantage
Puts
Particular
American
Tax
Income
Income Tax
And from a poise at this station the plane may swoop down, at great disadvantage if close to the back of the wave, at various slopes and directions till it cuts into the air that is being raised by the face of the following wave, which again enables it to resume its velocity.
Lawrence Hargrave
Great
Resume
Face
Down
Wave
Back
Air
Station
Following
Directions
Various
Disadvantage
Poise
Velocity
Enables
Till
Close
May
Being
Which
Again
Plane
Cuts
Raised
While Romney has an overall deficit with women voters, his biggest disadvantage is with college educated women - wherever they work, at home, in an office, a store or a factory.
Mara Liasson
Work
Home
Women
College
Deficit
Factory
Disadvantage
Overall
Voters
Educated
His
Office
Store
Biggest
Wherever
While
Romney
I've never felt that being a woman was a competitive advantage or disadvantage.
Marianne Lake
Woman
Disadvantage
Never
Advantage
Felt
Being
Competitive
Competitive Advantage
Out of labor's struggle in Arizona came better conditions for the workers, who must everywhere, at all times, under advantage and disadvantage work out their own salvation.
Mary Harris Jones
Work
Struggle
Better
Own
Everywhere
Out
Must
Disadvantage
Advantage
Arizona
Came
Conditions
Labor
Times
Salvation
Work Out
Workers
Who
A community that sees so clearly its own disadvantage or its own hardships also has a harder time seeing its potential: its ability to work together to change the community and change their lives.
Matthew Desmond
Work
Time
Change
Together
Hardships
Own
Community
Ability
Seeing
Sees
Potential
Disadvantage
Clearly
Also
Work Together
Lives
Harder
Harder Time
I think being an Asian woman has been more of an advantage than a disadvantage. It helps me stand out from the rest of the entertainers out there. Again, being from such an ethnically diverse place like New York, you get comfortable and confident with being different!
Nadia Ali
Me
You
Woman
Rest
Think
Out
Has-Been
Entertainers
Diverse
More
Disadvantage
Advantage
New
Like
Comfortable
Been
Than
Get
York
Confident
New York
Being
Different
Place
Again
Being Different
Asian
Stand
Helps
There's a natural antipathy on the part of the voters to a continuation of globalization as we know it. It's simply a code word today for bad trade deals that disadvantage the American people.
Peter Navarro
Today
Natural
People
Word
Bad
Disadvantage
Part
Simply
Voters
Know
Globalization
Trade
Deals
Continuation
Antipathy
American
American People
Code
It is very important to transform every disadvantage into an advantage.
Radhika Apte
Important
Every
Disadvantage
Advantage
Very
Transform
Many people with autism struggle with reading nonverbal cues and acting on them. When you lose that ability to understand and process nonverbal cues, you're at a huge disadvantage socially.
Rana el Kaliouby
You
Struggle
People
Reading
Lose
Autism
Ability
Disadvantage
Understand
Nonverbal
Huge
Process
Them
Acting
Many
Socially
The field of AI has traditionally been focused on computational intelligence, not on social or emotional intelligence. Yet being deficient in emotional intelligence (EQ) can be a great disadvantage in society.
Rana el Kaliouby
Great
Intelligence
AI
Field
Society
Deficient
Focused
Computational
Emotional
Disadvantage
Emotional Intelligence
Been
Being
Social
The Premier League is what it is. Some people will see the intensity and quality as a great advantage for your players: it will make them better. Some will see it as a disadvantage because the players play at such a high level and such intensity, it's difficult for them to drum that up, that intensity, with a very short space of rest time.
Roy Hodgson
Time
Great
Quality
People
Better
Space
Will
Rest
Some People
Difficult
High
High Level
See
Some
Disadvantage
Advantage
League
Drum
Make
Because
Up
Very
Intensity
Short
Short Space
Them
Your
Premier
Premier League
Play
Level
Players
Great Advantage
While at a biological disadvantage in competitions, women - who even make trips to restaurant bathrooms in pairs - are at a clear advantage when it comes to grouping together and the activities that accompany it: gossiping, sharing, bonding, assisting, scrapbooking, and building networks.
Sandra Tsing Loh
Together
Women
Building
Restaurant
Trips
Networks
Disadvantage
Clear
Sharing
Advantage
Make
Accompany
While
Who
Grouping
Even
Pairs
Activities
Biological
Competitions
Assisting
Bonding
In many countries, laws still work to women's disadvantage - for example, by requiring married women to obtain their husbands' permission to register a business, own property, or work.
Sri Mulyani Indrawati
Work
Property
Business
Women
Example
Own
Married
Husbands
Laws
Disadvantage
Countries
For Example
Obtain
Permission
Still
Register
Requiring
Many
I think we put our children at an enormous disadvantage by not educating them in war, by not letting them understand about it at an early age.
Suzanne Collins
War
Age
Think
Enormous
Our
About
Disadvantage
Put
Understand
Educating
Children
Them
Letting
Early
Early Age
This administration and the leadership in Congress appear to be intent on valuing wealth over work, thereby placing working families at a distinct disadvantage.
Tim Bishop
Work
Leadership
Wealth
Congress
This Administration
Distinct
Valuing
Administration
Disadvantage
Over
Families
Intent
Placing
Working
Working Families
Thereby
Appear
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