"For every benefit you receive a tax is levied."
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"You should not open your mouth except to express gratitude for benefits you have received, and never to mention your discontent."
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"Whatever professes to benefit by pleasing must please at once. The pleasures of the mind imply something sudden and unexpected; that which elevates must always surprise."
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"We are bullish on the health benefits, but they have to bring value."
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"I think that music, or at least the kind of music that I make, benefits greatly from improvisation."
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"Within every adversity is an equal and opposite benefit."
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"It is often the mistakes of others that benefit the rest of us and, sadly, not them ... For the antifragile, harm from errors should be less than the benefits."
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"I suppose that the main benefit of being rich (over just being independent) is to be able to despise rich people (a good concentration of whom you find in glitzy ski resorts) without any sour grapes. It is even sweeter when these farts don't know that you are richer than they are."
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"Wars are fought for the benefit of oligarchs, triumphs bought with the blood of peons."
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"If we are not happy, if we are not peaceful, we cannot share peace and happiness with others, even those we love, those who live under the same roof. If we are peaceful, if we are happy, we can smile and blossom like a flower, and everyone in our family, our entire society, will benefit from our peace."
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"Benefits should be granted little by little, so that they may be better enjoyed."
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"Photography at first was asked to do nothing but embalm our best smiles for the benefit of our friends and our best clothes for the amusement of posterity. Neither thing lasts, and photography came as a welcome salve to keep those precious, if slightly ridiculous, things a little longer in the world."
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"The right to have our environment protected for the benefit of present and future generations is our most important human right."
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"There is in general good reason to suppose that in several respects the gods could all benefit from instruction by us human beings. We humans are - more humane."
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"That which is so universal as death must be a benefit."
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"But revolutionary is not an acceptable term to those who benefit from, and deny at the same time, the savage exploitativeness of the social system."
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"A lecture is an occasion when you numb one end to benefit the other."
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"The guerrilla is obsessed with benefits. Whenever offering a product or service, she focuses on how it will benefit the consumer and builds everything—the product, the delivery, the marketing—around that benefit."
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"Everything that is done in the world is done by hope. No merchant or tradesman would set himself to work if he did not hope to reap benefit thereby."
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"Whatever the Benefits of Fortune are , they yet require a Palate fit to relish and taste them; 'Tis Fruition, and not Possession, that renders us Happy."
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