Beneficial Quotes - Page 2

• A good meditation, even when it is interrupted by occasional nodding, is much more beneficial than many outward religious exercises.

  Johannes Tauler

  Religious, Exercise, Meditation

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• The name of peace is sweet, and the thing itself is beneficial, but there is a great difference between peace and servitude. Peace is freedom in tranquillity, servitude is the worst of all evils, to be resisted not only by war, but even by death.

  Marcus Tullius Cicero

  Sweet, Peace, War

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• I am to provide the public with beneficial shocks.

  Alfred Hitchcock

  Shock

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• However great an evil immorality may be, we must not forget that it is not without its beneficial consequences. It is only through extremes that men can arrive at the middle path of wisdom and virtue.

  Wilhelm von Humboldt

  Men, Evil, Middle Path

  Wilhelm von Humboldt (2008). “The Limits of State Action”, p.134, Cambridge University Press

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• Adversity leads us to think properly of our state, and so is most beneficial to us.

  Samuel Johnson

  Adversity, Thinking, States

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• Now, a recent study from cardiologists at the University of Maryland, has shown that laughter may have a beneficial effect on the heart.

  Allen Klein

  Happiness, Laughter, Heart

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• The law is an adroit mixture of customs that are beneficial to society, and could be followed even if no law existed, and others that are of advantage to a ruling minority, but harmful to the masses of men, and can be enforced on them only by terror.

  Peter Kropotkin

  Men, Law, Society

  "The Heretic's Handbook of Quotations: Cutting Comments on Burning Issues". Book by Chaz Bufe, p. 26, 1992.

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• Happiness is beneficial for the body, but it is grief that develops the powers of the mind.

  Marcel Proust

  Happiness, Sympathy, Depression

  A la recherche du temps perdu: Le Temps retrouve Vol. 2, Ch. 3

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• Jogging is very beneficial. It's good for your legs and your feet. It's also very good for the ground. If makes it feel needed.

  Charles M. Schulz

  Witty, Fitness Motivational, Exercise

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• Money can add very much to one's ability to lead a constructive life, not only pleasant for oneself, but, hopefully, beneficial to others.

  David Rockefeller

  Add, Ability, Constructive

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• There are always protests, whether you do something good or bad. Even if you do something beneficial, people say you do it because it's advertising.

  Giorgio Armani

  Artist, People, Advertising

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• The accumulation of skill and science which has been directed to diminish the difficulty of producing manufactured goods, has not been beneficial to that country alone in which it is concentrated distant kingdoms have participated in its advantages.

  Charles Babbage

  Country, Skills, Kingdoms

  Charles Babbage (2013). “On The Economy Of Machinery And Manufactures”, p.16, Read Books Ltd

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• To despise riches, may, indeed, be philosophic, but to dispense them worthily, must surely be more beneficial to mankind.

  Fanny Burney

  May, Riches, Wealth

  Fanny Burney (1850). “Evelina: or, The history of a young lady's introduction to the world”, p.130

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• In the spiritual search doubt is beneficial, a closed mind is not. Doubt used wisely assists enlightenment; a closed mind assists ignorance.

  Ian Gardner

  Spiritual, Ignorance, Doubt

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• The addition of nuts in salad... I always find to be beneficial.

  Larry David

  Nuts, Salad

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• War is never economically beneficial except for those in position to profit from war expenditures.

  Ron Paul

  Money, War, Historical

  "Conscription – The Terrible Price of War". www.antiwar.com. November 26, 2003.

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• Those thoughts are truth which guide us to beneficial interaction with sensible particulars as they occur, whether they copy these in advance or not.

  William James

  Truth, Guides, Sensible

  William James (2015). “The Meaning of Truth: Human Understanding”, p.31, 谷月社

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• No conquest can ever become permanent which does not show itself beneficial to the conquered as well as to the conquerors.

  Thomas Carlyle

  Victory, Doe, Shows

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• I think it's wrong the way they criminalize herb. There are many more uses than just smoking. Beneficial to mankind.

  Ziggy Marley

  Marijuana, Thinking, Smoking

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• But I am sure also that from a political point of view, and from a social point of view the federal link, without infringing the sovereignty of any of the nations which might take part in such as association, could be beneficial.

  Aristide Briand

  Views, Political, Links

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• Growing a beard is a habit most natural, Scriptural, manly and beneficial.

  Charles Spurgeon

  Growing, Beard, Habit

  Charles H. Spurgeon (2010). “Lectures to My Students”, p.150, Zondervan

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• I think it's definitely beneficial for these characters to have good acting voices behind them and it affects the characters in a way that people can feel like they're part of the game and that they know these characters.

  Tara Strong

  Character, Thinking, Games

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• The arrival of a good clown exercises a more beneficial influence upon the health of a town than twenty asses laden with drugs.

  Thomas Sydenham

  Exercise, Drug, Twenties

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• Freedom granted only when it is known beforehand that its effects will be beneficial is not freedom.

  Friedrich August von Hayek

  Independence, Granted, Economy

  "The Constitution of Liberty". Book by Friedrich Hayek, p. 83, 1960.

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• The difficulty with the present state of affairs is that there is no legislation on the sources of funding for the Polish film industry. There is no legislation concerning filmmaking. And, there is no legislation on television that would be beneficial to filmmaking.

  Andrzej Wajda

  Movie, Would Be, Actors

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