Benefits Quotes - Page 6

• I try to be really hippie about things. I'm uptight in all the ways that are really important, but the things my husband and family can benefit from my uptightness, I'm completely lacking.

  Amanda Peet

  Husband, Hippie, Important

  "Amanda Peet returns to television". Interview with Mike Ayers, www.cnn.com. March 21, 2012.

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• Social Security has never failed to pay promised benefits, and Democrats will fight to make sure that Republicans do not turn a guaranteed benefit into a guaranteed gamble.

  Nancy Pelosi

  Fighting, Pay, Gamer

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• Avoid popularity; it has many snares, and no real benefit.

  William Penn

  Real, Rewards And Recognition, Popularity

  William Penn (1726). “A Collection of the Works of William Penn: To which is Prefixed a Journal of His Life, with Many Original Letters and Papers Not Before Published”, p.834

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• You must be sure that you give back something that's beneficial to the game. Any of the teaching you do must be for the benefit of the men who play.

  Henry Iba

  Basketball, Teaching, Men

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• Any time one person makes an effort to contact a deeper part of him or herself, balance his or her emotions, and deflect the stress momentum, others benefit. As more individuals learn to maintain their poise and balance and refrain from adding to the incoherence around them, they help to counterbalance the frequency of stress

  Howard Martin

  Stress, Effort, Balance

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• I'm a great supporter of transcendental meditation. I've been using it for almost 40 years now - and I think it's a great tool for anyone to have, to be able to utilize as a tool for stress. Stress, of course, comes with almost every business. I think there are enough studies out there that show that TM is something that could benefit anybody. It's a great system to use. Otherwise, why would I've been doing it for all these years, for almost half of my life?

  Clint Eastwood

  Stress, Thinking, Years

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• The benefits of Mouna (Silence) are incalculable.

  Sivananda

  Silence

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• Nothing can tend so much to humble us before the mercy and justice of God as the consideration of His benefits and our own sins. Let us, then, consider what He has done for us, and what we have done against Him; let us call to mind our sins in detail, and His gracious benefits in like manner, remembering that whatever there is of good in us is not ours, but His, and then we need not be afraid of vainglory or of taking complacency in ourselves.

  Francis of Assisi

  Humble, Justice Of God, Mind

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• Recently I reviewed the history of many missionaries and found a powerful correlation between exceptional missionaries and mothers who chose to remain home, often at great financial and personal sacrifice...They reflect honor to mothers who sacrificed to remain home for their children's benefit.

  Richard G. Scott

  Mother, Children, Powerful

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• The only positive benefit of the injury to Flintoff may be the end of his captaincy ambitions

  Michael Atherton

  Ambition, May, Injury

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• The object in America is to avoid contact, to treat all as foes unless they're known to be friends. Here you have a million crabs living in a million crevices. ... But the garden's greatest benefit, I feel, as not relief to the eyes, but to make the eyes sees our neighbors.

  Paul Fleischman

  Life, Friendship, Eye

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• But the tricks I use are ones that will hopefully benefit the team.

  Cristiano Ronaldo

  Inspirational, Sports, Team

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• Hatred of enemies is easier and more intense than love of friends. But from men who are more anxious to injure opponents than to benefit the world at large no great good is to be expected.

  Bertrand Russell

  Love, Hate, Men

  Bertrand Russell (1972). “Bolshevism: practice and theory”, Ayer Co Pub

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• I speak in the name of the entire German people when I assure the world that we all share the honest wish to eliminate the enmity that brings far more costs than any possible benefits. It would be a wonderful thing for all of humanity if both peoples would renounce force against each other forever. The German people are ready to make such a pledge.

  Adolf Hitler

  War, Names, People

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• You really do think about it institutionally; this is your job, and to some extent you benefit from having a job to do at a moment like this. You have things that you have to make happen. And you don't have time for the emotional reaction that might otherwise occur if somebody was just sitting there watching these events unfold and had no responsibilities.

  Dick Cheney

  Jobs, Responsibility, Emotional

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• It is good to be helpful and kindly, but don't give yourself to be melted into candle grease for the benefit of the tallow trade.

  George Eliot

  Kindness, Giving, Grease

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• When we cast our bread upon the waters we can presume that someone downstream whose face we will never know will benefit from our action, as we who are downstream from another will profit from the grantor's gift.

  Maya Angelou

  Water, Our Actions, Bread

  Maya Angelou (2011). “Wouldn't Take Nothing for My Journey Now”, p.10, Bantam

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• Pleasures are all alike simply considered in themselves: he that hunts, or he that governs the commonwealth, they both please themselves alike, only we commend that, whereby we ourselves receive some benefit.

  John Selden

  Pleasure, Please, Hunts

  John Selden, Richard Milward (1689). “Table Talk: Being the Discourses of John Selden”, p.100

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• The idea that leisure is of value in itself is only conditionally true. The average man simply spends his leisure as a dog spends it. His recreations are all puerile, and the time supposed to benefit him really only stupefies him.

  H. L. Mencken

  Dog, Men, Average

  H.L. Mencken (2013). “Minority Report”, p.86, Knopf

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• Estimates suggest that from 20 to 50 million Americans routinely, albeit illegally, smoke marijuana without the benefit of direct medical supervision. Yet, despite this long history of use and the extraordinarily high numbers of social smokers, there are simply no credible reports to suggest that consuming marijuana has caused a single death. By contrast, aspirin, a commonly used, over-the-counter medicine, causes hundreds of deaths each year.

  Frances M. Young

  Weed, Marijuana, Medicine

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• As a physician, I recommend nutritious hemp seeds and oil to anyone interested in maintaining a healthy diet. Everyone will benefit when American farmers can grow this amazing crop once again.

  Andrew Weil

  Marijuana, Oil, Healthy

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• We are here because we share a fundamental belief: that poverty, illiteracy, disease and inequality do not belong in the twenty-first century. We share a common purpose: to eradicate these ills for the benefit of all. And we share a common tool to achieve this: the Millennium Development Goals.

  Ellen Johnson Sirleaf

  Common Purpose, Goal, Firsts

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• Economic growth without social progress lets the great majority of the people remain in poverty, while a privileged few reap the benefits of rising abundance.

  John F. Kennedy

  Business, People, Growth

  Kennedy, John F. (1962). “Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: John F. Kennedy, 1961”, p.178, Best Books on

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• No man can tell another his faults so as to benefit him, unless he loves him.

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Men, Criticism, Faults

  Henry Ward Beecher (1868). “Sermons”, p.155

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• Thinking happy thoughts literally creates a positive chemical change in the brain which stimulates both positive physical and psychological benefits.

  Deepak Chopra

  Happiness, Thinking, Joy

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