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  1. A quotation from Gracian

    A wise man gets more use from his enemies than a fool from his friends.
     
    [Al varón sabio más le aprovechan sus enemigos que al necio sus amigos.]

    Baltasar Gracián y Morales (1601–1658) Spanish Jesuit priest, writer, philosopher
    The Art of Worldly Wisdom [Oráculo Manual y Arte de Prudencia], § 84 (1647) [tr. Jacobs (1892)]

    More about (and translations of) this quote: wist.info/gracian-y-morales-ba…

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  2. Airbus space business takes advantage of growing demand for satellite systems
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    <p>Airbus executives say the turnaround in the company’s space business came just in time to tap growing
    #advantage #satellite #business #growing

  3. On the #battlefield, #Ukraine is regaining tactical #advantage at certain sections of the frontline. According to the analytical group #DeepState, the number of #Russian ground #attacks jumped by 37.5 percent compared to April...

  4. Federal Minister for Research, Dorothee Bär (CSU), announced her goal of attracting more American scientists to Germany. Speaking to "Welt TV" she emphasized th... news.osna.fm/?p=46120 | #news #academic #advantage #american #attract

  5. #advantage : any condition, circumstance, opportunity, or means, particularly favorable to success, or to any desired end

    - French: avantage

    - German: der Vorteil

    - Italian: vantaggio

    - Portuguese: vantagem

    - Spanish: ventaja

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  6. A quotation from Terry Pratchett

       The reason that the rich were so rich, Vimes reasoned, was because they managed to spend less money.
       Take boots, for example. He earned thirty-eight dollars a month plus allowances. A really good pair of leather boots cost fifty dollars. But an affordable pair of boots, which were sort of OK for a season or two and then leaked like hell when the cardboard gave out, cost about ten dollars. Those were the kind of boots Vimes always bought, and wore until the soles were so thin that he could tell where he was in Ankh-Morpork on a foggy night by the feel of the cobbles.
       But the thing was that good boots lasted for years and years. A man who could afford fifty dollars had a pair of boots that’d still be keeping his feet dry in ten years’ time, while the poor man who could only afford cheap boots would have spent a hundred dollars on boots in the same time and would still have wet feet.

    Terry Pratchett (1948-2015) English author
    Discworld No. 15, Men at Arms (1993)

    More about this quote: wist.info/pratchett-terry/8319…

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