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"It would be great if everyone chanted Hare Krishna. Everybody would benefit by doing it."
"Modern broad-mindedness benefits the rich; and benefits nobody else."
"Silicon Valley benefits, as all of industry, from highly protectionist policy - patent policies and things like that - which come out of the government."
"The problem is not the sentiment, it's the execution. When a company makes a mistake, the individual benefits because they've learned how NOT to do something while the institution had to pay for the mistake."
"I enjoy helping. I like doing benefits and things like that, but don't feel the need to be thanked or even meet the people I am doing the benefit for."
"I do not know what meaning classical studies could have for our time if they were not untimely that is to say, acting counter to our time and thereby acting on our time and, let us hope, for the benefit of a time to come."
"Benefit of clergy: Half-rate on the railroad."
"[W]here other powers of entertainment are wanting, the true philosopher will derive benefit from such as are given."
"Driving Benzes with no benefits, not bad huh, for some immigrants?"
"I think the benefits are tremendous, and the power of accessibility in art is one of it's most explosive and insidious attributes."
"Markets help people pursue their happiness more efficiently and effectively. Because they are so effective, markets provide benefits right here and right now, even while government is busy batching the protection of happiness."
"The best benefit we derive from history is the enthusiasm it excites."
"Just as our bread, mixed and baked, packaged and sold without benefit of accident or human frailty, is uniformly good and uniformly tasteless, so will our speech become one speech."
"Everyone who receives the protection of society owes a return for the benefit."
"Inequalities of wealth, unjustly established, have assuredly injured the nation in which they exist during their establishment; and, unjustly directed, they injure it yet more during their existence. But inequalities of wealth justly established, benefit the nation in the course of their establishment; and, nobly used, aid it yet more by their existence."
"God has lent us the earth for our life; it is a great entail. It belongs as much to those who are to come after us, and whose names are already written in the book of creation, as to us; and we have no right, by anything that we do or neglect, to involve them in unnecessary penalties, or deprive them of benefits which it was in our power to bequeath."
"A benefit cited by way of reproach is equivalent to an injury."
"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."
"Now, of all the benefits that virtue confers upon us, the contempt of death is one of the greatest."