benefit quotes

• All government, indeed every human benefit and enjoyment, every virtue, and every prudent act, is founded on compromise and barter. (Edmund Burke) [government/human/benefit/enjoyment]
• The dead should be judged like criminals, impartially, but they should be allowed the benefit of the doubt. (Samuel Butler) [benefit]
• Nothing will benefit human health and increase the chances for survival of life on Earth as much as the evolution to a vegetarian diet (Albert Einstein) [willpower/benefit/human/health]
• There is also this benefit in brag, that the speaker is unconsciously expressing his own ideal. Humor him by all means, draw it all out, and hold him to it. (Ralph Waldo Emerson) [benefit]
• There is this benefit in brag, that the speaker is unconsciously expressing his own ideal. Humor him by all means; draw it all out, and hold him to it. (Ralph Waldo Emerson) [benefit]
• Every adversity, every failure, every heartache carries with it the seed of an equal or greater benefit. (Napoleon Hill) [benefit]
• Live so that you can at least get the benefit of the doubt. (Kin Hubbard) [benefit]
• Let us think of education as the means of developing our greatest abilities, because in each of us there is a private hope and dream which, fulfilled, can be translated into benefit for everyone and greater strength for our nation. (John F. Kennedy) [think/education/benefit]
• It has to be acknowledged that in capitalist society, with its herds of hippies, originality has become a sort of fringe benefit, a mere convention, accepted obsolescence, the Beatnik model being turned in for the Hippie model, as though strangely obedient to capitalist laws of marketing. (Mary McCarthy) [society/benefit/being/marketing]
• It has to be acknowledged that in capitalist society, with its herds of hippies, originality has become a sort of fringe benefit, a mere convention, accepted obsolescence, the Beatnik model being turned in for the Hippie model, as though strangely obedient to capitalist laws of marketing. (Mary McCarthy) [society/benefit/being/marketing]
• All growth is a leap in the dark, a spontaneous, unpremeditated act without benefit of experience. (Henry Miller) [growth/benefit/experience]
• 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. (Friedrich Nietzsche) [benefit/instruction/human/more]
• Fashion is something barbarous, for it produces innovation without reason and imitation without benefit. (George Santayana) [fashion/innovation/benefit]
• We should give as we would receive, cheerfully, quickly, and without hesitation; for there is no grace in a benefit that sticks to the fingers. ( Seneca) [give/benefit]
• I don't say that I won't do nudity for other people's benefit. It has nothing to do with other people's, it's just what I'm comfortable with. I can't say this enough, I'm totally comfortable with my body. I like my body, I don't think it's a bad thing, I think I have a nice body, I'm happy with it. (Cameron Diaz) [benefit/soul & body/soul & body/think]
• I’ve been offered a lot but I want to stay away from romance, comedies and fluffy work. I met Stephen Spielberg at a breast cancer benefit and he explained that he’d seen me on Saturday Night Live and thought I was ready for a movie. He said, ‘You go to the ledge and are unafraid to jump off.’ That was the biggest compliment to me because he was saying I was free. (Christina Aguilera) [benefit/night/movie]
• That was a nice benefit, to have a real bit of social good come out of doing the film. (Aidan Quinn) [nice/benefit/film]
• I called James. He's a customer, one of our best customers actually. And I said, 'What about doing a 5K to benefit the people down there?' and he was all over it. He went to LSU. He is the draw of the race. He was on CNN [on Thursday] morning talking about the race. Everybody's been behind the cause. (Chris Farley) [benefit/people/morning]
• The great benefit of monogamy is that you get to trust the person you're with and she gets to trust you. And so much comes out of that. So whether or not men and women were meant to be monogamous -- and we can debate all the theories until we die -- I know I gain something great from it. (David Duchovny) [benefit/trust/trust/men]
• There are certain pressures and things that change your life to a degree that, in the cost benefit analysis that constantly goes on, sometimes makes you think, 'Maybe I should just leave.' (David Schwimmer) [change/life/benefit/think]
• “I'm glad I have an outlet. I don't think I would put my aggression elsewhere, but working on the projects I have worked on, you tend to benefit personally from trying to wrap your head around the way other people look at the world.” (Ryan Gosling) [think/aggression/benefit/people]
• If you actively do something, it will stop making you feel like a victim and you'll start feeling like part of the solution, which is just a huge benefit to your body and your psyche. (Ted Danson) [willpower/feeling/benefit/soul & body]
• Men are wonderful. I adore them. They always give you the benefit of the doubt. (Gene Tierney) [men/give/benefit]
• “It's difficult for me to meet women because my crowd is much older. I know that for some of the young women I do meet, a relationship with me can be envisioned as a benefit to their career.” (Michael Douglas) [women/women/benefit]
• You know, we recently played a benefit with my husband, Elvis Costello, and Sir Elton John, who is a mutual friend of ours. Playing with Elvis and Elton and accompanying them with my band was a pretty euphoric experience. (Diana Krall) [benefit/experience]
• “We may be tired in the next few games, but I think we will benefit. This is the sort of work I want to do, I enjoy it and I like working hard.” (David Beckham) [think/willpower/benefit]
• “I don't see a benefit in accepting every single little morsel of work that comes along because I think in essence what you're doing is you're raping yourself really.” (Karl Urban) [benefit/think/essence]
• Linda Gray and I see each other probably twice a month for lunch or dinner with my wife and her boyfriend. We travel often together, we went down to Palm Springs this last weekend to kick off a Charity Benefit for Dennis Weaver who we've both worked with before and who is a big television star here. (Larry Hagman) [wife/charity/benefit/television]
• The masses don't shed their blood for the benefit of a few individuals. (Stokely Carmichael) [blood/benefit]
• For your benefit, learn from our tragedy. It is not a written law that the next victims must be Jews. It can also be other people. (Simon Wiesenthal) [benefit/right/jews/people]
• And the success of the union movement, historically, has always been to benefit all working men and women - not just people who belong to the union. (Warren Beatty) [benefit/men/women/people]

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