Benefits Quotes
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Assuredly there is but one way in which to achieve what is not merely difficult but utterly against human nature: to love those who hate us, to repay their evil deeds with benefits, to return blessings for reproaches. It is that we remember not to consider men's evil intention but to look upon the image of God in them, which cancels and effaces their transgressions, and with its beauty and dignity allures us to love and embrace them.
John Calvin
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Supreme good is like water. Water greatly benefits all things, without conflict. It flows through places that people loathe. Thereby it is close to the Way.
Lao Tzu
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It will sometimes be necessary to use falsehood for the benefit of those who need such a mode of treatment.
Elton Welsby
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I think as a writer one of the benefits is that you can put things that you're interested in into your books. I always have put a lot of food and restaurants because I was a waitress and I love to eat.
Sarah Dessen
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Whenever a person repeats the same behavior pattern over and over, you can be certain that the person derives many emotional benefits from it.
Al Siebert
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We do not benefit from a relationship with China or any other country in which we put our values and our ideals aside.
Barack Obama
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My whole life is driven by love. It always has been. It's never been driven by material things – which are just benefits of doing something I loved.
Anthony Robbins
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Since man does not create physical matter, those who handle material objects in the production process are not producers in that sense. Economic benefits result from the transformation of matter in form, location, or availability (intellectually or temporally). It is these transformations that create economic benefits valued by consumers, and whoever arranges such transformations contributes to the value of things, whether his hands actually come into contact with physical objects or not.
Thomas Sowell
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To the mind which looks not to general results in the economy of Nature, the earth may seem to present a scene of perpetual warfare, and incessant carnage: but the more enlarged view, while it regards individuals in their conjoint relations to the general benefit of their own species, and that of other species with which they are associated in the great family of Nature, resolves each apparent case of individual evil, into an example of subserviency to universal good.
William Buckland
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It is by the benefit of letters that absent friends are in a manner brought together.
Seneca the Younger
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I can't go on flying apart just for those who want the benefit of a few verbal kicks. My God, do you know what poems like that cost? They're not written vicariously: they come out of actual suffering, real madness.
Theodore Roethke
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Giving people equal access to enjoying the benefits of America is the biggest problem that we're not making any progress in resolving.
Jimmy Carter
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There is no benefit so large that malignity will not lessen it; none so narrow that a good interpretation will not enlarge it.
Seneca the Younger
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I will not cut benefits. I want to enhance benefits for low-income workers and for women who have been disadvantaged by the current Social Security system.
Hillary Clinton
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He who receives a benefit with gratitude, repays the first installment of it.
Seneca the Younger
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I am an advocate for workers and have organized with many in our region to fight for the high-quality benefits and wages that all workers deserve.
Juan Vargas
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The biggest and most deadly 'tax' rate on the poor comes from a loss of various welfare state benefits - food stamps, housing subsidies and the like - if their income goes up.
Thomas Sowell
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Try to let go of the idea that you need to do yoga perfectly in order to see its benefits. Rather, let it be a process of waking up to who you really are. If you do this, you will know joy. And that joy will be your gift to a world that very much needs our healing.
Darren Main
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We welcome private investment, but any company or national firm will be a partner of a venture where the result will go mainly to the Bolivian people. Of course, any investor is entitled to recover their investment and take profits. But be assured that these new functions with our partners will also be reinvested in our country for the benefit of the Bolivian people.
Evo Morales
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That's one of the benefits of working with a smaller network like IFC. You're awarded more trust, but trust that I really earned.
Scott Aukerman
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There is a consciousness as an agent of one's own destiny as a person in America, there are things that can be done, there are advantages and benefits which exist that are directly related to - and even rest upon - white privilege.
Michael Eric Dyson
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No man is so wise that he cannot benefit by talking things out with others.
Richard L. Evans
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A lot of the movements we do in the gym are things that can be done outside, but we have the benefits of the beautiful scenery, the fresh air, the sunlight, and the vitamin B.
Harley Pasternak
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Writers don't seem to benefit much by the advance of science, although they thrive on superstitions of all kinds.
Northrop Frye