"A benefit consists not in what is done or given, but in the intention of the giver or doer."
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"It's critical - that the people that are benefiting today from Medicare and Social Security that they not see benefit reductions. It's awfully hard to tell someone who might be 82, that they've gotta go back to work, because their benefits are gonna be chopped. That's not gonna happen."
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"It is a good thing to write for the amusement of the public, but it is a far higher and nobler thing to write for their instruction, their profit, their actual and tangible benefit."
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"Help another and you will be the one who benefits most"
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"Political changes and reforms do not usually favor the general populace. They benefit those who are positioned to best organize and advocate for their policies."
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"Life is an opportunity, benefit from it."
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"It is unjust that the whole of society should contribute towards an expence of which the benefit is confined to a part of the society."
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"The Exclusion Principle is laid down purely for the benefit of the electrons themselves, who might be corrupted (and become dragons or demons) if allowed to associate too freely."
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"Material goods consist of useful material things, and of all rights to hold, or use, or derive benefits from material things, or to receive them at a future time."
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"Massage therapy has been shown to relieve depression, especially in people who have chronic fatigue syndrome; other studies also suggest benefit for other populations."
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"We also believe candour benefits us as managers. The CEO who misleads often in public eventually misleads himself in private."
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"A great perturbation in nature, to receive at once the benefit of sleep and do the effects of watching!"
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"In my case, I pay a standard premium to participate in the Federal Employees' Health Benefits Plan for my wife and myself out of each month's paycheck."
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"Whatever it is, handle it so that your children's children will get the benefit of it."
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"No slavery can be abolished without a double emancipation, and the master will benefit by freedom more than the freed-man."
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"A benefit is estimated according to the mind of the giver."
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"Executives need to understand the economic benefits of trust dividend, especially when the behavior is real, not artificially or superficially created as PR to manipulate trust."
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"I will engage in no transaction which does not benefit all whom it affects"
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"Severities should be dealt out all at once, so that their suddenness may give less offense; benefits ought to be handed ought drop by drop, so that they may be relished the more."
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"He who would really benefit mankind must reach them through their work."
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