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• Banks properly established and conducted are highly useful to the business of the country, and will doubtless continue to exist in the States so long as they conform to their laws and are found to be safe and beneficial.

  Martin Van Buren

  Country, Law, Long

  Martin Van Buren (2018). “State of the Union Addresses of Martin van Buren”, p.10, BoD – Books on Demand

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• All mankind is now learning that these nuclear weapons can only serve to destroy, never become beneficial.

  Alva Myrdal

  Learning, Nuclear, Weapons

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• The Americans... are almost ignorant of the art of music, one of the most elevating, innocent and refining of human tastes, whose influence on the habits and morals of a people is of the most beneficial tendency.

  James F. Cooper

  Art, People, Ignorant

  "The American Democrat: Or, Hints on the Social and Civic Relations of the United States of America". Book by James Fenimore Cooper, 1838.

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• Generally, social networking sites can be hugely promising and beneficial in opening new friendships and vistas and knowledge of the world, but they are also fraught with peril, when young people are reckless or headless.

  Richard Blumenthal

  People, New Friendship, Networking

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• As was the case for Nobel's own invention of dynamite, the uses that are made of increased knowledge can serve both beneficial and potentially harmful ends. Increased knowledge clearly implies increased responsibility. We reject the notion advocated in some quarters that man should stop eating from the tree of knowledge, as if that were humanly possible.

  Nicolaas Bloembergen

  Knowledge, Responsibility, Science

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• If it's cross-country ski season, I'll be out doing that, or snowshoeing up in Quebec. In my California home, I go to the local Y and I like doing yoga. It's been hugely beneficial to me in injury avoidance.

  Neil Peart

  Country, Yoga, Home

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• Engaging in social business is beneficial to a company because it leverages on business competencies to address social issues, involves one-time investment with sustainable results, and produces other positive effects such as employee motivation and improved organizational culture.

  Muhammad Yunus

  Motivation, Issues, Culture

  "Why Businesses Need to Reshape Society" by Muhammad Yunus, www.huffingtonpost.com. October 15, 2013.

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• One of the really remarkably beneficial aspects of genetic engineering is that much of the previous methodology for controlling pests and so forth is through chemicals that affect a very broad spectrum of insects, for example, or fungicides that control fungi.

  Nina Fedoroff

  Engineering, Example, Pests

  "Debating The Potential Danger Of Transgenic Weeds". "Science Friday" with Ira Flatow, www.npr.org. February 25, 2011.

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• Pride, like laudanum and other poisonous medicines, is beneficial in small, though injurious in large, quantities. No man who is not pleased with himself, even in a personal sense, can please others.

  Arthur Frederick Saunders

  Encouragement, Hard Work, Pride

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• It was a great step in science when men became convinced that, in order to understand the nature of things, they must begin by asking, not whether a thing is good or bad, noxious or beneficial, but of what kind it is? And how much is there of it? Quality and Quantity were then first recognised as the primary features to be observed in scientific inquiry.

  James Clerk Maxwell

  Science, Men, Discovery

  James Clerk Maxwell, W. D. Niven (2003). “The Scientific Papers of James Clerk Maxwell”, p.217, Courier Corporation

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• It is curious how often erroneous theories have had a beneficial effect for particular branches of science.

  Ernst Mayr

  Science, Curiosity, Branches

  Ernst Mayr (1982). “The Growth of Biological Thought: Diversity, Evolution, and Inheritance”

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• The guard rails on a highway may restrict some folks from driving the way they want, but those rules mostly end up saving the lives of those other drivers who understand that living in a society means behaving in a commonly beneficial way.

  Steven Weber

  Mean, Saving, May

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

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• It's hard to think of anything that is more socially beneficial than raising children well. It needs to be valued and respected, I believe by everyone in public life regardless of your political party.

  Kerry Healey

  Children, Party, Believe

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• It is much more beneficial to your health if you feel your way through life than think your way through life.

  Deepak Chopra

  Thinking, Way, Feels

  "The Real Secret to Staying Healthy for Life (Part 3)" by Deepak Chopra, www.huffingtonpost.com. August 15, 2012.

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• There's a lot of evidence that fruits and vegetables are beneficial for reducing the risk of stroke.

  Walter Willett

  Vegetables, Risk, Fruit

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• By virtue of exchange, one man's prosperity is beneficial to all others.

  Frederic Bastiat

  Men, Liberty, Wealth

  "Harmonies economiques". Book by Frederic Bastiat, 1850.

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• Duty is not beneficial because it is commanded,
  but is commanded because it is beneficial.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Duty

  Benjamin Franklin (1998). “Benjamin Franklin Wit and Wisdom”, p.29, Peter Pauper Press, Inc.

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• Hanuman not only gives liberation, he also fulfills our beneficial desires.

  Krishna Das

  Giving, Desire, Liberation

  Twitter post from Sep 12, 2013

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• Everything happens for a reason. Sometimes you won't be on the beneficial end of it but either way it's a blessing in disguise.

  Behdad Sami

  Blessing, Everything Happens For A Reason, Way

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• Solidarity and interdependence, a sense of worth, a pride and hope in the future: these are positive gains for those who believe in progressive politics and the beneficial role of government, rather than a detriment.

  David Blunkett

  Believe, Pride, Government

  "For far too long, we have left patriotism to the extremists" by David Blunkett, www.theguardian.com. March 18, 2005.

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• I think that having good data, good statistics-and the United States generally has better macroeconomic statistics than most countries-and having good economists to interpret those data and present the policy alternatives, has a substantially beneficial effect on policymaking in the United States.

  Ben Bernanke

  Country, Thinking, Data

  Interview with Arthur J. Rolnick, www.minneapolisfed.org. June 1, 2004.

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• Remember blessed children of men that the purpose of the real science should be to increase the happiness and to free the race from every external condition that would not be beneficial for the elation of man to the pristine greatness of his original cosmic destiny.

  Count of St. Germain

  Children, Real, Blessed

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• The farmer doesn't sow any seed; he chooses it carefully for by experience he knows that the harvest will be of the same Nature of the sowing. The wise man observes the laws of life and lives accordingly. Therefore, you sow in the furrow of life generous and beneficial procedures for all that according to the law your harvest, being good will make your life better.

  Amado Nervo

  Wise, Men, Law

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• A minimum-wage law, a law that prevents employers and employees from entering into mutually beneficial economic exchanges, is as far from a free market or free enterprise as one can get. That's why it causes so much damage and destruction, especially to black teenagers and others whose labor, for one reason or another, is valued by employers at less than the government-established minimum wage.

  Jacob G. Hornberger

  Teenager, Government, Law

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• Never discount a country by their size or resources. What may not be useful to yours, could be greatly beneficial to other lands in need. Everything exists with a purpose. True wealth is what cannot be seen. While one country can have a huge powerful military, another land may lack the budget and manpower to compete with it -- but be filled with happy citizens.

  Suzy Kassem

  Country, Powerful, Military

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