Benefit Quotes

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At the 1894 ALA conference it was fairly well agreed that the primary goal of the public library must be to teach good citizenship. Libraries… — Kevin Mattson
The discipline of colleges and universities is in general contrived, not for the benefit of the students, but for the interest, or more properly speaking,… — Adam Smith
There's no substitute for rolling up your sleeves and working with the people who can make a difference. They get the benefit of your participation… — Michael Milken
True generosity must benefit both parties. No woman can control her destiny if she doesn't give to herself as much as she gives of herself. — Suze Orman
What really happens is that the gene pool becomes filled with genes that influence bodies in such a way that they behave 'as if' they… — Richard Dawkins
People respond to incentives. If unemployment becomes more attractive because of the unemployment benefit, some unemployed workers may no longer try to find a job… — Paul Krugman
Greediness consists in ravishing the goods of another through violence or cunning, as in the two noble professions of the conqueror and courtier. But the… — Augustin Thierry
Goldman Sachs was fundamentally responsible for the crash of 2008, but by that time its former Chairman and Chief Executive Officer, Henry 'Hank' Paulson, had… — David Icke
Money is different from all other commodities: other things being equal, more shoes, or more discoveries of oil or copper benefit society, since they help… — Murray Rothbard
Instead of controlling the environment for the benefit of the population, perhaps we should control the population to ensure the survival of our environment — David Attenborough
[A]ll power is originally vested in, and consequently derived from, the people. That government is instituted and ought to be exercised for the benefit of… — James Madison
If you have free immigration, in the way we had it before 1914, everybody benefited. The people who were here benefited. The people who came… — Milton Friedman
It is this one Spirit who makes it possible for an infant to be regenerated . . . when that infant is brought to baptism;… — Saint Augustine
For his part, every beauty of art or nature made him thankful as well as happy, and that the pleasure to be had in listening… — William Makepeace Thackeray
Are we to regard the world of nature simply as a storehouse to be robbed for the immediate benefit of man? ... Does man have… — Kenneth E. Boulding
As science is more and more subject to grave misuse as well as to use for human benefit it has also become the scientist's responsibility… — Hermann Joseph Muller
Too many leaders act as if the sheep.. their people.. are there for the benefit of the shepherd, not that the shepherd has responsibility for… — Ken Blanchard
I've got enough money in my life to retire now and do nothing. But I've got a duty and obligation to see if we can… — Clive Palmer
A nobler example, because a less personal one, of the pinch of poverty, is when it prevents the accomplishment of some cherished scheme for the… — James Payn
The true test is, whether the object be of a local character, and local use; or, whether it be of general benefit to the states.… — Joseph Story

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