Benefits Quotes - Page 38

• Good home-school educational plans have the kids in groups with other children often and consistently. Because common sense dictates that isolating people is never good and home-schooled children really benefit from being in those type of programs.

  Rosalind Wiseman

  Children, Educational, Home

  "How parents and teens can communicate without strife". Live Chat, live.washingtonpost.com. November 12, 2010.

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• The benefits because his collective parents are permitted to grow secure in their particular roles in his life. His adoptive parents are not unwittingly encouraged to compete to possess him. Nor are his birthparents punished and banished from a place in his life.

  Kathleen Silber

  Parent, Roles, Birth

  "Dear Birthmother: Thank You for Our Baby". Book by Kathleen Silber and‎ Phylis Speedlin, May 1, 1991.

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• It does not matter how many tumbles you have in this life, so long as you do not get dirty when you tumble; it is only the people who have to stop to be washed and made clean, who must necessarily lose the race. And I can assure you that there is the greatest practical benefit in making a few failures early in life. You learn that which is of inestimable importance

  Thomas Huxley

  Patience, Dirty, Race

  Thomas Henry Huxley (1893). “Science & education”

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• This is the law of benefits between men; the one ought to forget at once what was given, and the other ought never to forget what he has received.

  Seneca the Younger

  Men, Law, Forget

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• Benefits received are a delight to us as long as we think we can requite them; when that possibility is far exceeded, they are repaid with hatred instead of gratitude.

  Tacitus

  Gratitude, Thinking, Long

  Tacitus (2007). “The Annals & The Histories”, p.132, Modern Library

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• When you confer a benefit on those worthy of it, you confer a favor on all.

  Publilius Syrus

  Kindness, Favors, Worthy

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• But because many endeavor to get knowledge rather than to live well, they are often deceived and reap little or no benefit from their labor.

  Thomas a Kempis

  Littles, Endeavor, Deceived

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• When a Benefit is wrongly conferred, the author of the Benefit may often be said to injure.

  Plato

  Often Is, May, Said

  Plato, Aeterna Press (2015). “Laws”, p.481, Aeterna Press

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• Often they benefit who suffer wrong.

  Ovid

  Suffering

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• Men that talk of their own benefits are not believed to talk of them because they have done them, but to have done them because they might talk of them.

  Ben Jonson

  Men, Done, Might

  Ben Jonson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Ben Jonson (Illustrated)”, p.3194, Delphi Classics

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• The desire for imaginary benefits often involves the loss of present blessings.

  Aesop

  Loss, Blessing, Desire

  Aesop (2016). “Aesop's Fables - Complete Collection”, p.55, Lulu.com

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• If certain Critics were as clearsighted as they are malignant, how great would be the benefit to be derived from their writings!

  Percy Bysshe Shelley

  Writing, Criticism, Would Be

  Percy Bysshe Shelley (2015). “Complete Works of Percy Bysshe Shelley: Top Complete Works Collection”, p.82, 谷月社

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• History teaches that wars begin when governments believe the price of aggression is cheap. To keep the peace, we and our allies must be strong enough to convince any potential aggressor that war could bring no benefit, only disaster.

  Ronald Reagan

  Strong, War, Believe

  United States. President (1981-1989 : Reagan), Ronald Reagan (1984). “Ronald Reagan”

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• The United States has an active pharmaceutical industry that has brought huge benefits to the U.S. public. Most Americans, who benefit from these advances, have little understanding of how difficult it is to create an important new medical therapy and make it available to improve public health.

  Robert Jarvik

  Understanding, Important, United States

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• Too much pleasure disagrees with us. Too many concords are annoying in music; too many benefits irritate us; we wish to have the wherewithal to overpay our debts.

  Blaise Pascal

  Wish, Debt, Too Much

  Blaise Pascal (2016). “Pensées”, p.40, Open Road Media

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• There's a reason why every human society has fiction. It teaches us how to be 'good,' to behave in a way that is for the benefit of the whole community.

  Orson Scott Card

  Community, Fiction, Way

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• Just as our bread, mixed and baked, packaged and sold without benefit of accident or human frailty, is uniformly good and uniformly tasteless, so will our speech become one speech.

  John Steinbeck

  Speech, Bread, Frailty

  John Steinbeck (1980). “Travels with Charley in Search of America”, p.63, Penguin

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• This life as a simple citizen and laborer has its benefits not only for the person himself but perhaps also for his country. After all, there is room for only one Prime Minister, but for those who make the desert bloom there is room for hundreds, thousands and even millions. And the destiny of the state is in the hands of the many rather than of a single individual. There are times when an individual feels he should do those things which only can and should be done by the many.

  David Ben-Gurion

  Country, Simple, Destiny

  "Why I Retired to the Desert". The New York Times Magazine, p. 47, March 28, 1954.

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• In my view, the best gift is one that benefits both the receiver and the planet.

  Andrew Weil

  Views, Planets, Best Gift

  "Healthy Gift Ideas" by Dr. Andrew Weil, www.huffingtonpost.com. March 18, 2010.

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• There is nothing so fleeting as the memory of benefits received.

  Francesco Guicciardini

  Memories, Fleeting

  Francesco Guicciardini (1890). “Counsels and Reflections of Francesco Guicciardini”

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• I am not a Luddite. I am suspicious of technology. I am perfectly aware of its benefits, but I also try to pay attention to some of the negative effects.

  Neil Postman

  Technology, Trying, Negative

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• That old man dies prematurely whose memory records no benefits conferred. They only have lived long who have lived virtuously.

  Richard Brinsley Sheridan

  Memories, Men, Long

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• California has always led the way on environmental protection and always reaped the benefits, pioneering everything from catalytic convertors on cars to stationary source reduction.

  Ed Begley, Jr.

  California, Car, Environmental

  "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Wherefore for the public interest and benefit of human society it is requisite that the highest obligations possible should be laid upon the consciences of men.

  Isaac Barrow

  Men, Should, Interest

  Isaac Barrow (1818). “The Theological Works of Isaac Barrow”, p.45

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• Wealth and honor, benefits and blessings shall enrich my life; poverty and failures, grief and anxiety shall help fulfill it. In my life, I will serve heaven and earth; in death I will find peace.

  Zhang Zai

  Grief, Blessing, Anxiety

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