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• I never read theory. I think that was to my benefit.

  Nan Goldin

  Thinking, Theory, Intellect

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• Technology usually provides a series of tradeoffs. Each asset is offset by a deficit...A major problem occurs when those who suffer from technology's defecits and those who benefit are not the same people.

  Donald A. Norman

  Technology, People, Suffering

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• A [tax loophole is] something that benefits the other guy. If it benefits you, it is tax reform.

  Russell B. Long

  Guy, Liberty, Reform

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• We find that one of the most rewarding features of being scientists these days ... is the common bond which the search for truth provides to scholars of many tongues and many heritages. In the long run, that spirit will inevitably have a constructive effect on the benefits which man can derive from knowledge of himself and his environment.

  Stanford Moore

  Running, Knowledge, Science

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• Nothing that you do in science is guaranteed to result in benefits for mankind. Any discovery, I believe, is morally neutral and it can be turned either to constructive ends or destructive ends. That's not the fault of science.

  Arthur William Galston

  Believe, Science, Discovery

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• To the mind which looks not to general results in the economy of Nature, the earth may seem to present a scene of perpetual warfare, and incessant carnage: but the more enlarged view, while it regards individuals in their conjoint relations to the general benefit of their own species, and that of other species with which they are associated in the great family of Nature, resolves each apparent case of individual evil, into an example of subserviency to universal good.

  William Buckland

  Life, Nature, Science

  William Buckland (2003). “The Evolution Debate, 1813-1870: Geology and Mineralogy, Considered with Reference to Natural Theology”, p.112, Psychology Press

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• We now have a global community that calculates how to maximize the benefits for a few at the expense of the majority.

  Irene Fernandez

  Community, Majority, Expenses

  The Right Livelihood Award Acceptance speech, www.rightlivelihoodaward.org. December 31, 2005.

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• You have the highest of human trusts committed to your care. Providence has showered on this favored land blessings without number, and has chosen you as the guardians of freedom, to preserve it for the benefit of the human race. May He who holds in his hands the destinies of nations, make you worthy of the favors He has bestowed, and enabled you with pure hearts and hands and sleepless vigilance, to guard and defend to the end of time, the great charge He has committed to your keeping.

  J. Reuben Clark

  Integrity, Patriotic, Heart

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• I love running. It's as simple as that ... it has given me endless rewards: physical, emotional, and professional. The benefits of running are lifelong. I ran as a child, and I intend to run into my old age.

  Grete Waitz

  Inspirational, Running, Children

  Grete Waitz, Gloria Averbuch (2000). “On The Run: Exercise and Fitness for Busy People”, Rodale Books

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• In addition to the well-known benefits of health and well-being derived from exercise, there are other unique advantages to being a runner. You are more attuned to not only your body but also the world around you. The outdoor life you lead as a runner gives you a special relationship with your surroundings: nature, the climate, the seasons. As you depend on these things to accommodate your activity, you grow to understand and appreciate them.

  Grete Waitz

  Inspirational, Exercise, Unique

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• Every day we should stand in awe of Him, as He is with us, and do what is pleasing before Him. If we are unable now to perceive Him with our physical eyes, we can, if we are watchful, see Him continuously with the eyes of our understanding and not just see Him, but reap great benefits from Him.

  Gregory Palamas

  Spiritual, Eye, Evil

  "The homilies".

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• Trees are extraordinary revelations of the spirit in nature. And, given the multitude of ways that trees and their products benefit and enrich human culture, they are an especially appropriate symbol of the interdependence of spirit and nature.

  Steven Clark Rockefeller

  Tree, Way, Culture

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• Creation is not a property, which we can rule over at will; or, even less, is the property of only a few: Creation is a gift, it is a wonderful gift that God has given us, so that we care for it and we use it for the benefit of all, always with great respect and gratitude.

  Pope Francis

  Gratitude, Use, Care

  "Opinion: The 8th, and final, deadly sin: Exploiting the Earth" by Paul B. Farrell, www.marketwatch.com. December 4, 2014.

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• It is now 14 years since I first suggested that organic farming might have some benefits and ought to be taken seriously. I shall never forget the vehemence of the reaction.. much of it coming from the sort of people who regard agriculture as an industrial process, with production as the sole yardstick of success.

  Prince Charles

  Taken, Years, Agriculture

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• Nothing is more apt to deceive us than our own judgment of our work. We derive more benefit from having our faults pointed out by our enemies than from hearing the opinions of friends.

  Leonardo da Vinci

  Funny, Humor, Enemy

  da Vinci Leonardo, Leonardo (da Vinci) (1990). “Leonardo da Vinci's advice to artists”, Running Press Book Publishers

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• Populists and isolationists ignore the tangible benefits that have resulted from our active international role during the past half-century.

  David Rockefeller

  Ignorance, Past, Ignorant

  David Rockefeller (2011). “Memoirs”, p.368, Random House

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• When employees and employers, even coworkers, have a commitment to one another, everyone benefits. I have people who have been in business with me for decades. I reward their loyalty to the organization and to me. I know that they'll always be dedicated to what we're trying to accomplish.

  Donald Trump

  Loyalty, Commitment, Organization

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• Its [the anthropological method] power to make us understand the roots from which our civilization has sprung, that it impresses us with the relative value of all forms of culture, and thus serves as a check to an exaggerated valuation of the standpoint of our own period, which we are only too liable to consider the ultimate goal of human evolution, thus depriving ourselves of the benefits to be gained from the teachings of other cultures and hindering an objective criticism of our own work.

  Franz Boas

  Teaching, Other Cultures, Civilization

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• Not only in antiquity but in our own times also laws have been passed...to secure good conditions for workers; so it is right that the art of medicine should contribute its portion for the benefit and relief of those for whom the law has shown such foresight...[We] ought to show peculiar zeal...in taking precautions for their safety. I for one have done all that lay in my power, and have not thought it beneath me to step into workshops of the meaner sort now and again and study the obscure operations of mechanical arts.

  Bernardino Ramazzini

  Art, Health, Science

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• The 2.4 million bright, brave, incredibly fit and remarkably talented young Americans who have served in our armed forces since we were attacked on 9-11-01 are all volunteers. As General Petraeus put it during a conversation we had in Afghanistan, 'They all came or stayed, knowing they were going to war.' For more than a decade, these patriots and their loved ones have made extraordinary sacrifices for this country. They embody the classical definition of heroes: those who put themselves at risk for the benefit of others.

  Oliver North

  Country, Veterans Day, War

  "The Heroes of 2011" by Oliver North, www.foxnews.com. November 11, 2011.

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• Romance, like the rabbit at the dog track, is the elusive, fake, and never attained reward which, for the benefit and amusement of our masters, keeps us running and thinking in safe circles.

  Beverley Jones

  Love, Running, Dog

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• Our bodies, speeches and minds need to be trained so that they will do anything we want. We can cry or laugh at once when we want to. Then it will be a natural response; we will cry when it is time to cry, and laugh when we should laugh. Do you understand? We can get angry when necessary; we can be gentle if we have to. We will completely become our own master. Then, no matter what we want to do, it will benefit the world. It is not difficult to attain this stage; all we need to do is to mediate.

  Ching Hai

  Spiritual, Inspiration, Laughing

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• The very essence of a free government consists in considering offices as public trusts, bestowed for the good of the country, and not for the benefit of an individual or a party.

  John C. Calhoun

  Trust, Country, Party

  John C. Calhoun “The Works of John C. Calhoun Volume 2”, Jazzybee Verlag

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• Public office is a public trust, the authority and opportunities of which must be used as absolutely as the public moneys for the public benefit, and not for the purposes of any individual or party.

  Dorman Bridgeman Eaton

  Trust, Party, Opportunity

  "The "Spoils" System and Civil Service Reform". Book by Dorman Bridgeman Eaton, Chapter III. The Merit System,

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• Love never asks what benefit it will derive from love. Love from its very nature is a disinterested thing. It loves for the creature's sake it loves, and for nothing else.

  Charles Spurgeon

  Valentines Day, Sake, Creatures

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