Beneficial Quotes

• No law can possibly meet the convenience of every one: we must be satisfied if it be beneficial on the whole and to the majority.

  Livy

  Law, Majority, Convenience

  "History of Rome". Book by Livy. Book XXXIV, section 3,

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• Circumstances give in reality to every political principle its distinguishing color and discriminating effect. The circumstances are what render every civil and political scheme beneficial or noxious to mankind.

  Edmund Burke

  Reality, Color, Giving

  Edmund Burke (2016). “Delphi Complete Works of Edmund Burke (Illustrated)”, p.1385, Delphi Classics

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• We must learn to understand humanity better so that we can create an environment that is more beneficial to people, more rewarding, more pleasant to experience.

  John C. Portman, Jr.

  People, Humanity, Environment

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• It is my belief CAFTA will be beneficial for Alabama and the United States as a whole.

  Spencer Bachus

  United States, Alabama, Belief

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• We daily witness the beneficial effect produced to the community by the institution of premiums, held out to encourage the inventions of ingenious mechanics.

  Joseph Lancaster

  Encouragement, Community, Mechanic

  Joseph Lancaster (1807). “Improvements in Education, as it Respects the Industrious Classes of the Community: Containing Among Other Important Particulars, an Account of the Institution for the Education of One Thousand Poor Children, Borough Road, Southwark; and of the New System of Education on which it is Conducted”, p.154

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• We must not confuse distortion with innovation; distortion is useless change, art is beneficial change.

  Chuck Jones

  Art, Confusion, Innovation

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• Though bitter, good medicine cures illness. Though it may hurt, loyal criticism will have beneficial effects.

  Sima Qian

  Hurt, Medicine, Words Of Wisdom

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• There's something interesting about playing live; you're in the moment, and I think it would be beneficial.

  Herb Alpert

  Thinking, Interesting, Live In The Moment

  Twitter post from Feb 22, 2013

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• Commerce is so far from being beneficial to arts, or to empire, that it is destructive of both, as all their history shows, for the above reason of individual merit being its great hatred. Empires flourish till they become commercial, and then they are scattered abroad to the four winds.

  William Blake

  Art, Business, Wind

  William Blake (1988). “William Blake”, Oxford University Press, USA

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• Learn to be pleased with everything, with wealth so far as it makes us beneficial to others; with poverty, for not having much to care for; and with obscurity, for being unenvied.

  Plutarch

  Balance, Contentment, Obscurity

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• Love, like truth and beauty, is concrete. Love is not fundamentally a sweet feeling; not, at heart, a matter of sentiment, attachment, or being "drawn toward." Love is active, effective, a matter of making reciprocal and mutually beneficial relation with one's friends and enemies.

  Carter Heyward

  Sweet, Inspirational Love, Heart

  "Our Passion for Justice : Images of Power, Sexuality, and Liberation". Book by Carter Heyward, 1984.

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• One of the most beneficial things I've ever learned is how to keep my mouth shut.

  Eric Clapton

  Mouths

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• My experience through life has convinced me that, while moderation and temperance in all things are commendable and beneficial, abstinence from spirituous liquors is the best safeguard of morals and health.

  Robert E. Lee

  Alcohol, Civil War, Moral

  Robert E. Lee (2016). “The Life and Letters of Robert E. Lee (Abridged)”, p.443, BIG BYTE BOOKS

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• When a man sees something desirable, he must reflect on the fact that with time it could come to involve what is detestable. When he sees something that is beneficial, he should reflect that sooner or later it, too, could come to involve harm.

  Xunzi

  Time, Men, Facts

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• While I'm critical to the Bush presidency, it's been enormously beneficial for Salon because we're seen as kind of an aggressive watchdog on the Bush White House. Particularly since Florida, our readership hit a whole new level, and we held onto those readers.

  David Talbot

  White, Florida, House

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• We must stress that the euro has been beneficial to the European Union because, otherwise, in this context of international turmoil, every country would have to devalue their currencies.

  Jean-Pierre Raffarin

  Country, Stress, Europe

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• I shall endeavour still further to prosecute this inquiry, an inquiry I trust not merely speculative, but of sufficient moment to inspire the pleasing hope of its becoming essentially beneficial to mankind.

  Edward Jenner

  Inspire, Becoming, Inquiry

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• Logic, like whiskey, loses its beneficial effect when taken in too large quantities.

  Lord Dunsany

  Taken, Math, Statistics

  "My Ireland". Book by Lord Dunsany (Chapter XIX: Weeds and Moss), 1937.

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• Instead of trade policy that is beneficial to American businesses and workers as well as our trade partners, we have a flawed trade policy that hurts all parties.

  Stephen F. Lynch

  Hurt, Party, Flaws

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• There is no development strategy more beneficial to society as a whole - women and men alike - than the one which involves women as central players.

  Kofi Annan

  Player, Men, Strategy

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• Few can believe that suffering, especially by others, is in vain. Anything that is disagreeable must surely have beneficial economic effects.

  John Kenneth Galbraith

  Believe, Suffering, Economics

  "The Age of Uncertainty". Book by John Kenneth Galbraith, 1977.

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• I guess music, particularly the blues, is the only form of schizophrenia that has organised itself into being both legal and beneficial to society.

  Alexis Korner

  Schizophrenia, Form, Organised

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• The technological breakthrough of the World Wide Web has been enormously beneficial to society.

  Mike Fitzpatrick

  World, Breakthrough, Technological

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• It seems to me that a mutually beneficial relationship between a man and woman requires the man to be dominant. A sensible woman will allow the man to think he is the most important partner.

  Beryl Bainbridge

  Men, Thinking, Important

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• For the sake of argument and illustration I will presume that certain articles of ordinary diet, however beneficial in youth, are prejudicial in advanced life, like beans to a horse, whose common ordinary food is hay and corn.

  William Banting

  Horse, Illustration, Ordinary

  William Banting (1864). “Letter on Corpulence: Addressed to the Public”, p.17

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