A Quote by David Hume

Nothing is pure and entire of a piece. All advantages are attended with disadvantages. A universal compensation prevails in all conditions of being and existence.

David Hume

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David Hume
Scottish - Philosopher
May 7, 1711 - August 25, 1776

Those of us living in the state of in between have certain advantages and disadvantages. The advantage of being exposed to a new culture and in my case the freedom that comes with living in the USA. The disadvantages of course being that you will never experience again being a center or quite home anywhere.

Shirin Neshat

Since nothing can exist that does not fulfil the conditions which render its existence possible, the different parts each being must be co-ordinated in such a way as to render possible the existence of the being as a whole, not only in itself, but also in its relations with other beings, and the analysis of these conditions often leads to general laws which are as certain as those which are derived from calculation or from experiment.

Georges Cuvier

One of the advantages and disadvantages of WCW had to deal with was being a member of Turner Broadcasting.

Eric Bischoff

There's definitely a way of thinking and a way of being in the South that has its advantages and disadvantages.

Steven Soderbergh

Being fired has some of the advantages of dying without its supreme disadvantages. People say extra-nice things about you, and you get to hear them.

Howard Zinn

Everything has its advantages and disadvantages.

Kabir Bedi

There is here, as in all countries, advantages and disadvantages.

Nathaniel Smith

It is possible to indulge too great contempt for mere success, which is frequently attended with all the practical advantages of merit itself, and with several advantages that merit alone can never command.

William Benton Clulow

Personality is the supreme realization of the innate idiosyncracy of a living being. It is an act of high courage flung in the face of life, the absolute affirmation of all that constitutes the individual, the most successful adaptation to the universal conditions of existence coupled with the greatest possible freedom for self-determination.

Carl Jung

Every step by which an individual substitutes concerted action for isolated action results in an immediate and recognizable improvement in his conditions. The advantages derived from peaceful cooperation and division of labor are universal.

Ludwig von Mises

A media-only campaign has its advantages, but it also has its very severe disadvantages.

Ken Cuccinelli

Nothing is accidental in the universe - this is one of my Laws of Physics - except the entire universe itself, which is Pure Accident, pure divinity.

Joyce Carol Oates

All of the usual formations have advantages and disadvantages, but none would work without the magic of the players.

Diego Forlan

I think starting a cinema career late in life has more advantages than disadvantages.

Luke Evans

The advantages we gain from EU membership clearly and categorically outweigh any disadvantages that come with it.

Ruth Davidson

If there is existence, there must be non-existence. And if there was a time when nothing existed, there must have been a time before that - when even nothing did not exist. Suddenly, when nothing came into existence, could one really say whether it belonged to the category of existence or non-existence?

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