Sentences with phrase «bears little advantage»

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Even today when pressures such as «outing» seek to enforce a gay identity on all homosexuals, many of them take the view that homosexuality is just one facet of their identity - whether an advantage, or a curse, or simply a slightly awkward fact about themselves - which has little bearing on the rest of their lives outside the bedroom.

Shortly before his death, Mark Twain wrote: «A myriad of men are born; they labor and sweat and struggle... they squabble and scold and fight; they scramble for little mean advantages...

Upon returning to her Ph.D. lab after her first child was born, she took advantage of the university's child care center and sometimes took her newborn with her to the office, doing computer work «while my little one was asleep in the pram,» she says.