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• Raising minimum wage doesn't just benefit the workers behind me, it creates a proven ripple effect that increases wages all the way up the scale. ... Let's get the facts straight, only 20 percent of people making the minimum wage are teenagers. The rest are hardworking adults, many of them with families, and I mean hardworking.

  Joe Biden

  Teenager, Mean, People

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• The cultural integration of psychedelics won't happen overnight, and the question of young people is perhaps the most difficult involved. The first step is for people who have knowledge of these substances to share it, "coming out" about their own experiences. Drug education should be honest and present a balanced picture of risks and benefits.

  Rick Doblin

  People, Drug, Risk

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• I do not choose to be a common man. It is my right to be uncommon - if I can. I seek opportunity - not security. I do not wish to be a kept citizen, humbled and dulled by having the state look after me. I want to take the calculated risk; to dream and to build, to fail and to succeed... It is my heritage...to think and act for myself, enjoy the benefit of my creations, and to face the world boldly and say, this I have done.

  Dean Alfange

  Dream, Men, Thinking

  Who's who in America: 43rd Edition, 1984-1985, Volume 1, (p. 42), 1984.

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• The ability to recognize opportunities and move in new - and sometimes unexpected - directions will benefit you no matter your interests or aspirations.

  Drew Gilpin Faust

  Moving, Opportunity, Matter

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• Anybody's marriage might benefit from an occasional embargo on talk.

  Richard Yates

  Might, Occasional, Embargo

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• Deaths have benefits. They can fertilise the ground.

  Mao Zedong

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• The Bio-diversity Convention has not yielded any tangible benefits to the world's poor.

  Atal Bihari Vajpayee

  Diversity, World, Tangible

  Atal Bihari Vajpayee, India. Ministry of Information and Broadcasting. Publications Division (2004). “Towards a new world: defining moments”

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• Anything that benefits the public and not just big banking, that's what I'm with.

  Big Boi

  Banking, Bigs

  "Grammy Award-Winning Rapper Big Boi: I Didn't Vote For Obama - I'm A Libertarian". Interview with Alyona Minkovski, www.newsbusters.org. January 12, 2013.

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• It has to be acknowledged that in capitalist society, with its herds of hippies, originality has become a sort of fringe benefit, a mere convention, accepted obsolescence, the Beatnik model being turned in for the Hippie model, as though strangely obedient to capitalist laws of marketing.

  Mary McCarthy

  Hippie, Law, Marketing

  Mary McCarthy (1968). “Hanoi”, George Weidenfeld & Nicholson

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• The right of each individual in any relation to secure to himself the full benefits of his intelligence, his capacity, his industry and skill are among the inalienable inheritances of humanity.

  Leland Stanford

  Skills, Humanity, Inheritance

  Leland Stanford (1887). “Co-operation of Labor: Views of Senator Leland Stanford of California. An Interview ...”

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• The employer class is less indispensable in the modern organization of industries because the laboring men themselves possess sufficient intelligence to organize into co-operative relation and enjoy the entire benefits of their own labor.

  Leland Stanford

  Men, Class, Organization

  Leland Stanford (1887). “Co-operation of Labor: Views of Senator Leland Stanford of California. An Interview ...”

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• Sometimes, sitting there on the cushion failing to watch your breath, it can feel like you’re the only weirdo weird enough to be wasting your time in this way. But you’re not! There are generations of weirdos, monasteries full of them, and we have the benefit of their accumulated wisdom.

  Jay Michaelson

  Watches, Generations, Sitting

  Jay Michaelson (2013). “Evolving Dharma: Meditation, Buddhism, and the Next Generation of Enlightenment”, p.108, North Atlantic Books

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• There is no shortage of evidence that when we support the fundamental freedoms of women and girls, they are able to realize their full potential to engage in, contribute to and benefit from sustainable development. In doing so, we will all reap the benefits; in our homes, throughout our communities, and across our nations.

  Sam Kutesa

  Girl, Home, Support

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• There is about as much educational benefit to be gained in studying dolphins in captivity as there would be studying mankind by only observing prisoners held in solitary confinement.

  Jacques Yves Cousteau

  Educational, Dolphins, Captivity

  "Marvel at wild animals -- from a distance" by Chris Palmer, www.cnn.com. February 26, 2010.

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• Politics is the art of reaching a goal that benefits all citizens of a nation.

  Khem Veasna

  Art, Goal, Citizens

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• The only way to grow the economy in a way that benefits the bottom 90 percent is to change the structure of the economy. At the least, this requires stronger unions and a higher minimum wage.

  Robert Reich

  Stronger, Minimum Wage, Unions

  "Raising Most People’s Wages" by Robert Reich, www.huffingtonpost.com. September 29, 2014.

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• I honor health as the first muse, and sleep as the condition of health. Sleep benefits mainly by the sound health it produces; incidentally also by dreams, into whose farrago a divine lesson is sometimes slipped.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Dream, Sleep, Honor

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2010). “Collected Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson, Volume VIII: Letters and Social Aims”, p.156, Harvard University Press

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• Health is the first muse, comprising the magical benefits of air, landscape, and bodily exercise on the mind.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Health, Exercise, Air

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1875). “Letters and Social Aims”, p.227

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• While combat efficiency is a primary function of Shaolin Kung Fu, a more immediate and useful benefit in our law-abiding society is attaining radiant health and vitality.

  Wong Kiew Kit

  Law, Vitality, Abiding

  Wong Kiew Kit (2002). “The Art of Shaolin Kung Fu: The Secrets of Kung Fu for Self-Defense, Health, and Enlightenment”, p.17, Tuttle Publishing

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• This sound meditation is gentle and subtle, but its benefits are extensive, in that it allows you to gently release tension that arises from your present circumstances, and if you choose to work with it further it can help release negativity from your past.

  Tom Kenyon

  Past, Meditation, Negativity

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• Millions of Americans have paid into social security and deserve their full benefits. Pure and simple, Republicans are manufacturing a social security crisis that does not exist in order to dismantle social security.

  Diane Watson

  Simple, Order, Doe

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• Ironically, xenophobic nationalists are utilizing the benefits of globalization.

  Maajid Nawaz

  Globalization, Utilizing

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• I like things that don't look like you're in control. It's like life itself. You just learn how to benefit from accidents and chances that you take.

  Peter Beard

  Looks, Chance, Like You

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• Dictators free themselves by enslaving others. They work not for your benefit, but their own.

  Charlie Chaplin

  Politics, Dictator

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• Look, this debate is basic: it's small government vs. big government. So how cowardly do folks like Blood and Frank Rich have to be that they can't man up and defend their love for collectivism? The only reason they scream race, is because that debate scares them. They know a racial accusation prevents dialogue, because such a harmful charge far outweighs any benefits of winning an argument.

  Greg Gutfeld

  Men, Winning, Blood

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