"It is for the benefit of mankind to mitigate the horrors of war as much as possible."
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"We generally learn languages for the benefit of reading the books written in them"
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"The benefit of even limited monopolies is too doubtful, to be opposed to that of their general suppression."
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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."
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"It is by the benefit of letters that absent friends are in a manner brought together."
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"We are as answerable for what we give as for what we receive; nay, the misplacing of a benefit is worse than the not receiving of it; for the one is another person's fault, but the other is mine."
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"There is no benefit so large that malignity will not lessen it; none so narrow that a good interpretation will not enlarge it."
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"Extraordinary benefits accrue to the tiny minority of people who are able to push just a tiny bit longer than most."
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"Without a specific reason for the consumer to behave, without a reward or benefit, the overwhelmed consumer will refuse."
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"How terrible it is to have wisdom when it does not benefit those who have it."
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"No one supposed that dinoflagellates might actively kill fish as an evolved response for their own specific advantage, including a potential nutritional benefit for the algal cells. And yet the dinoflagellates do seem to be killing and eating fishes in a manner suggesting active evolution for this most peculiar reversal."
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"Natural selection may lead to benefits for species, but these `higher' advantages can only arise as sequelae, or side consequences, of natural selection's causal mechanism: differential reproductive success of individuals."
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"Everyone brings their crumb of information to the table. If they are not at the table, we don’t benefit from their crumb."
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"I feel that the whole Western World will benefit by the resurrection of the neutron bomb project."
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"I don't know that God favors the person who has a greater reach than those who have a small reach. It's the intention. I try to keep a positive intention, and use whatever resources I have to benefit others."
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"My nationalism is as broad as my swadeshi, I want India's rise so that the whole world may benefit."
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"How do you know if the next act you are about to do is the right one or the wrong one? Consider the face of the poorest and most vulnerable human being that you have ever chanced upon, and ask yourself if the act that you contemplate will be of benefit to that person; and if it will be, it's the right thing to do, and if not, rethink it."
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"The best way to live / is to be like water / For water benefits all things / and goes against none of them."
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"Water benefits the ten thousand things and does not oppose them."
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". . . the integral being is attached to nothing and can relate to everyone with an unstructured attitude. Because of this, her very existence benefits all things."
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