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• The influence of fine scenery, the presence of mountains, appeases our irritations and elevates our friendships.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Journey, Irritation, Hiking

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1983). “Essays and Lectures”, p.1030, Library of America

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• I learned early that the richness of life is found in adventure. Adventure calls on all the faculties of mind and spirit. It develops self-reliance and independence. Life then teems with excitement. But man is not ready for adventure unless he is rid of fear. For fear confines him and limits his scope. He stays tethered by strings of doubt and indecision and has only a small and narrow world to explore.

  William O. Douglas

  Adventure, Men, Richness Of Life

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• People need immediate places to refresh, reinvent themselves. Our surroundings built and natural alike, have an immediate and a continuing effect on the way we feel and act, and on our health and intelligence. These places have an impact on our sense of self, our sense of safety, the kind of work we get done, the ways we interact with other people, even our ability to function as citizens in a democracy. In short, the places where we spend our time affect the people we are and can become.

  Tony Hiss

  Journey, Impact, Self

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• But reducing harmful emissions, abating our dependence on foreign oil and developing alternative renewable energy sources have benefits that go beyond environmental health, they improve personal health, enhance national security and encourage our nations economic viability.

  Jim Clyburn

  Environmental Health, Oil, Energy

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• The gifted man bears his gifts into the world, not for his own benefit, but for the people among whom he is placed; for the gifts are not his, he himself is a gift to the community.

  Henry Ford

  Men, People, Community

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• Had I mentioned to someone around 1795 that I planned to write, anyone with any sense would have told me to write for two hours every day, with or without inspiration. Their advice would have enabled me to benefit from the ten years of my life I totally wasted waiting for inspiration.

  Enrique Vila-Matas

  Inspiration, Writing, Years

  Enrique Vila-Matas (2007). “Bartleby & Co.”, p.31, New Directions Publishing

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• Bureaucracy gives birth to itself and then expects maternity benefits.

  Dale Dauten

  Government, Giving, Stubborn

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• Even the most ardent environmentalist doesn't really want to stop pollution. If he thinks about it, and doesn't just talk about it, he wants to have the right amount of pollution. We can't really afford to eliminate it - not without abandoning all the benefits of technology that we not only enjoy but on which we depend.

  Milton Friedman

  Thinking, Technology, Want

  There's No Such Thing as a Free Lunch introduction (1975)

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• A government is for the benefit of all the people.

  William Howard Taft

  Government, People

  William Howard Taft (2004). “"Liberty Under Law" and Selected Supreme Court Opinions”, p.12, Ohio University Press

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• Don't organize for any other purpose than mutual benefit to the employer and the employee.

  Mark Hanna

  Mutual Benefit, Purpose, Employers

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• American consumers benefit from free trade and investment.

  John Shadegg

  Investment, Trade, Consumers

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• Unless what you say benefits the other person, don't say it.

  Denis Waitley

  Persons

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• Learn how to grow out of yourself and into the world of others: Plant a shade tree under which you know you will never sit. Set some goals that may benefit your children or an orphanage or the employees of your company or future generations or your own city, fifty years from now.

  Denis Waitley

  Children, Years, Cities

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• Give a good deed the credit of a good motive; and give an evil deed the benefit of the doubt.

  Brander Matthews

  Evil, Giving, Doubt

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• If we would have anything of benefit, we must earn it, and earning it become shrewd, inventive, ingenious, active, enterprising.

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Work, Earning It, Effectiveness

  Henry Ward Beecher (1866). “Royal truths”, p.28

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• And finally, to all Canadians: Canada is a great country, one of the hopes of the world. We can be a better one – a country of greater equality, justice, and opportunity. We can build a prosperous economy and a society that shares its benefits more fairly. We can look after our seniors. We can offer better futures for our children. We can do our part to save the world's environment. We can restore our good name in the world.

  Jack Layton

  Senior, Country, Children

  Jack Layton's Letter to Canadians, www.theglobeandmail.com. August 20, 2011.

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• That is, while we believe that cost-benefit analysis is an important tool to inform agency decision making, the results of the cost-benefit analysis do not trump existing law

  Fred Thompson

  Believe, Cost Benefit Analysis, Law

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• The break for me was the Medicare drug benefit in 2003. It's just grossly expensive, bad policy. After that, I no longer gave them the benefit of the doubt and started seeing the glass as half-empty.

  Bruce Bartlett

  Glasses, Drug, Doubt

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• In my work, I am not attempting to predict the future.  I am only pointing out what is possible with the intelligent application and humane use of science and technology.  This does not call for scientists to manage society.  What I suggest is applying the methods of science to the social system for the benefit of human kind and the environment.

  Jacque Fresco

  Intelligent, Technology, Doe

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• The love shown in Christ by our God to mankind should constrain all of us who are followers and disciples of Christ to do all in our power to see to it that the Message of Salvation is carried to those of our fellows for whom Christ Our Saviour was sacrificed but who have not had the benefit of hearing the good news.

  Haile Selassie

  Hearing, Messages, News

  Haile Selassie's Address to the World Evangelical Congress in Berlin, October 28, 1966.

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• God loves every one of us but cannot directly benefit us; he can benefit us only indirectly through each other. For this reason he inspires us with his love

  Emanuel Swedenborg

  Inspire, His Love, God Love

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• If the Conservative is less anxious than his Liberal brethren to increase Social Security ‘benefits,’ it is because he is more anxious than his Liberal brethren that people be free throughout their lives to spend their earnings when and as they see fit

  Barry Goldwater

  People, Earning, Conservative

  Barry Goldwater (1994). “The Conscience of a Conservative”, p.6, Regnery Publishing

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• I believe that we face incredible obstacles in our attempts to see the world. Everything in our nature tries to deny the world around us; to refabricate it in our own image; to reinvent it for our own benefit. And so, it becomes something of a challenge, a task, to recover (or at least attempt to recover) the real world despite all the impediments to that end.

  Errol Morris

  Real, Believe, Challenges

  "The Museum of Modern Art with Ron Rosenbaum". www.errolmorris.com. Fall, 1999.

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• In a government whose distinguishing characteristic should be a diffusion and equalization of its benefits and burdens the advantage of individuals will be augmented at the expense of the community at large.

  Martin Van Buren

  Government, Community, Individual

  United States. President (1837-1841 : Van Buren), Martin Van Buren (1838). “Message from the President of the United States to the Two Houses of Congress: At the Commencement of the Third Session of the Twenty-fifth Congress”, p.12

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• Alfred Nobel was much concerned, as are we all, with the tangible benefits we hope for and expect from physiological and medical research, and the Faculty of the Caroline Institute has ever been alert to recognize practical benefits.

  Haldan Keffer Hartline

  Research, Tangible, Medical

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