"Too much pleasure disagrees with us. Too many concords are annoying in music; too many benefits irritate us; we wish to have the wherewithal to overpay our debts."
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"My whole life is driven by love. It always has been. It's never been driven by material things - which are just benefits of doing something I loved."
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"Within every setback or obstacle or disadvantage there is the seed of an equal or opposite or greater advantage or benefit."
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"The benefits of studying abroad are almost endless."
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"The discipline of colleges and universities is in general contrived, not for the benefit of the students, but for the interest, or more properly speaking, for the ease of the masters. Its object is, in all cases, to maintain the authority of the master, and whether he neglects or performs his duty, to oblige the students in all cases to behave toward him as if he performed it with the greatest diligence and ability."
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"The greatest achievements are those that benefit others."
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"The reason we avoid the word 'synergy' is because people generally claim more synergistic benefits than will come. Yes, it exists, but there are so many false promises.Berkshire is full of synergies - we don't avoid synergies, just claims of synergies."
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"The "social contract," in the only sense in which it is not completely mythical, is a contract among conquerors, which loses its raison d'être if they are deprived of the benefits of conquest."
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"The benefits of knowledge can only be realized in practice."
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"Benefits should be conferred gradually; and in that way they will taste better."
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"No one wearies of benefits received."
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"Give me the benefit of your convictions, if you have any; but keep your doubts to yourself, for I have enough of my own."
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"Live so that you can at least get the benefit of the doubt."
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"Every experience I have benefits me. I am in the process of positive change."
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"This is the moment when we must build on the wealth that open markets have created, and share its benefits more equitably. Trade has been a cornerstone of our growth and global development. But we will not be able to sustain this growth if it favors the few, and not the many."
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"When a Benefit is wrongly conferred, the author of the Benefit may often be said to injure."
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"Everything that I've done so far has had a bigger budget than the last, but I've never ever felt the benefit of the bigger budget because the ideas always exceed the budget."
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"Unless what you say benefits the other person, don't say it."
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"In societies where mature workers are respected and where their wisdom is respected, everybody benefits. Workers are more engaged and productive. Their health is better. They live longer."
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"Every single problem that you have in your life, is the seed of an opportunity for some greater benefit. Stay alert to opportunities by being grounded in the wisdom of uncertainty! When your preparedness meets opportunity the solution will spontaneously appear!"
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