Benefit Quotes
1426 Benefit quotes by 1105 unique authors
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Many thousands of youth have been deprived of the benefit of education thereby, their morals ruined, and talents irretrievably lost to society, for want of…
— Joseph Lancaster
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Congress should fund research on the effects that violent video games have on young minds... We don't benefit from ignorance. We don't benefit from not…
— Barack Obama
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Keep your own house and its surroundings pure and clean. This hygiene will keep you healthy and benefit your worldly life.
— Sathya Sai Baba
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A felon could plead "benefit of clergy" and be saved by [reading aloud] what was aptly enough termed the "neck verse", which was very usually…
— William Hazlitt
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One must search diligently to find laudatory comments on education (other than those pious platitudes which are fodder for commencement speeches). It appears that most…
— Edward Gibbon
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He who confers a benefit on anyone loves him better than he is beloved.
— Aristotle
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Love and compassion benefit both ourselves and others. Through kindness to others, your heart and mind will be peaceful and open.
— Dalai Lama
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The phase of the usury system which we are trying to analyze is more or less Patterson's perception that the Bank of England could have…
— Ezra Pound
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I will follow that system of regimen which, according to my ability and judgment, I consider for the benefit of my patients, and abstain from…
— Hippocrates
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Hot Plants enhance sexual experience. They increase sensitivity and make sex more urgent. Men get better erections. Women benefit, too. Your orgasms are like Chinese…
— Chris Kilham
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Research is subordinated (not to a long-term social benefit) but to an immediate commercial profit. Currently, disease (not health) is one of the major sources…
— Pierre Bosquet
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The way of loving kindness is what is to be accepted. Love! The benefit is clear. Rage, hate are the way of chaos and darkness…
— Jetsunma Ahkon Lhamo
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The play is really a kind of nightmare. It ought to flow rapidly and effortlessly from one moment to another. In London, we had difficulty…
— Arthur Miller
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If you say that a good reputation serves to benefit the neighbor more, I admit that. However, since it should be based on a good…
— Vincent de Paul
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Often the work of the Lord itself may be a temptation to keep us from that communion with Him which is so essential to the…
— George Muller
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A typical mathematician does not actively try to be useful. Individual mathematicians are motivated primarily by a subtle mixture of ambition and intellectual curiosity, and…
— Timothy Gowers
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A good person dyes events with his own color . . . and turns whatever happens to his own benefit.
— Seneca the Younger
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Young persons, because of their immaturity, may not fully comprehend the consequences of their actions and should therefore benefit from less severe sanctions than adults.…
— Mary Robinson
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The man who has received a benefit ought always to remember it, but he who has granted it ought to forget the fact at once.
— Demosthenes
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For I, hearing my Lord's estate amongst many more estates was to be sold, and that the wives of the owners should have an allowance…
— Margaret Cavendish
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When the snipe and the mussel struggle, the fisherman gets the benefit. Ancient Chinese saying
— Robert Greene
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I look upon every good man, as a good book, lent by its owner for another to read, and transcribe the excellent notions and golden…
— John Flavel
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The ends do not justify the means. If our actions will bring harm to others, even in the service of some 'good,' they are almost…
— Jack Kornfield
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If men will not act for themselves, what will they do when the benefit of their effort is for all?
— Elbert Hubbard
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We walk around every day not knowing the exact level of risk and benefit associated with most of our actions, yet it remains our responsibility…
— Julie Foucher
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