Fidel Castro
Politician, Revolutionary
"One of the greatest benefits of the revolution is that even our prostitutes are college graduates."
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Niccolo Machiavelli
Political Philosopher, Historian
"Women are the most charitable creatures, and the most troublesome. He who shuns women passes up the trouble, but also the benefits. He who puts up with them gains the benefits, but also the trouble. As the saying goes, there's no honey without bees."
Paramahansa Yogananda
Spiritual Teacher, Author
"No one appears on our stage unless the director has placed them there for our benefit"
Mao Zedong
Politician, Revolutionary
"Deaths have benefits. They can fertilise the ground."
Kofi Annan
Diplomat, Politician
"When women thrive, all of society benefits, and succeeding generations are given a better start in life."
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"Globalisation, which benefits only multi-national companies and takes away all sense of local or national pride and identity, is the biggest threat facing all the member states of the EU."
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"Sell the benefit, not your company or the product. People buy results, not features."
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"Most people who work at home find they do not have the benefit of receptionists who serve as personal guards"
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"A fool cannot be protected from his folly. If you attempt to do so, you will not only arouse his animosity but also you will be attempting to deprive him of whatever benefit he is capable of deriving from experience. Never attempt to teach a pig to sing; it wastes your time and annoys the pig."
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"A positive state of mind is not merely good for you, it benefits everyone with whom you come into contact, literally changing the world."
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"We human beings are social beings. We come into the world as the result of others’ actions. We survive here in dependence on others. Whether we like it or not, there is hardly a moment of our lives when we do not benefit from others’ activities. For this reason, it is hardly surprising that most of our happiness arises in the context of our relationships with others."
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"There is no teaching until the pupil is brought into the same state or principle in which you are; a transfusion takes place; he is you, and you are he; then is a teaching; and by no unfriendly chance or bad company can he ever lose the benefit."
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"With the benefit of hindsight, had more care been taken, maybe this could have been avoided"
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"One thing is very clear: Illegal immigrants are not entitled to benefits."
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"Silence - Speak not but what may benefit others or yourself; avoid trifling conversation."
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"When taxes are too high, people go hungry. When the government is too intrusive, people lose their spirit. Act for the people's benefit. Trust them; leave them alone."
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"Only those who still have hope can benefit from tears. When they finish, they feel better. But to those without hope, whose anguish is basic and permanent, no good comes from crying. Nothing changes for them. They usually know this, but still can’t help crying."
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"The more we take the welfare of others to heart and work for their benefit, the more benefit we derive for ourselves. This is a fact that we can see."
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"A national culture, if it is to flourish, should be a constellation of cultures, the constitutes of which, benefiting each other, benefit the whole."
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"Many exercise forms - aerobic, yoga, weights, walking and more - have been shown to benefit mood."
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"Marriage is a career which brings about more benefits than many others."
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"There is no duty we so much underrate as the duty of being happy. By being happy we sow anonymous benefits upon the world."
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"You either create something and you keep it a secret and you die with it, or you can benefit the craft."
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"As we look out into the Universe and identify the many accidents of physics and astronomy that have worked together to our benefit, it almost seems as if the Universe must in some sense have known that we were coming."
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"If you see long term benefit in doing something, but short term pain then you should do it."
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