"It's one of the biggest benefits of being president that you really don't think about until you get here."
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"At some point, we realize that what we do for ourselves benefits others, and what we do for others benefits us."
"Opening to the world begins to benefit ourselves and others simultaneously. The more we relate with others, the more quickly we discover where we're blocked."
"For new technology to replace old, it has to have at least ten times the benefit."
"Capitalism is being attacked not because it is inefficient or misgoverned but because it is cynical. And indeed a society based on the assertion that private vices become public benefits cannot endure, no matter how impeccable its logic, no matter how great its benefits."
"The benefit of one is the benefit of all, and the neglect of one is the neglect of all."
"War so conspicuously benefits rich men and kills the poor ones."
"If men will not act for themselves, what will they do when the benefit of their effort is for all?"
"Indifference elicits no response. Indifference is not a response. Indifference is not a beginning; it is an end. And, therefore, indifference is always the friend of the enemy, for it benefits the aggressor - never his victim, whose pain is magnified when he or she feels forgotten."
"Women have always been more critical of marriage than men. The great mysterious irony of it is - at least it's the stereotype - that women want to get married and men are trying to avoid it. Marriage doesn't benefit women as much as men, and it never has. And women, once they are married, become very critical of marriages in a way that men don't."
"Men don't have the benefits of equality either."
"For me, the main principle for broadcasters has to be that if people stand to benefit from an interview, they should be prepared to face some downside as well."
"The importation of gold and silver is not the principal, much less the sole benefit which a nation derives from its foreign trade."
"But I benefit from the taxes I pay because I know how to access the benefits of the taxes."
"As we benefit from the inventions of others, we should be glad to share our own ... freely and gladly."
"The gorillas are not yet sufficiently advanced in evolutionary terms to have discovered the benefits of passports, currency-declaration forms, and official bribery, and therefore tend to wander backward and forward across the border as and when their beastly, primitive whim takes them."
"While the health benefits are many, yoga offers much more than just a way to exercise the body."
"At a major label you can start to feel that you're working for them, and that any work you do, you're never going to see any benefit."
"There are people who organise the contest, winners, losers, and people who benefit from the contest taking place."
"There is no single test or formula for producing moral progress anymore than there is for generating scientific truths. It is a process involving theoreticians, fact-gatherers, protestors, martyrs for the cause, authors of first- person narratives who change the way we see and evaluate the distribution of harms and benefits."