Beneficial Quotes - Page 7

• We condemn the view that the (U.S.-led) occupation's existence is beneficial for the Iraqi people because if it ended, there would be sectarian war - as if sectarian war has not already begun.

  Muqtada al Sadr

  War, Views, People

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• Art derives a considerable part of its beneficial exercise from flying in the face of presumptions.

  Henry James

  Art, Exercise, Flying

  1884 'The Art of Fiction', collected in Partial Portraits (1988).

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• I have long argued that paying down the national debt is beneficial for the economy: it keeps interest rates lower than they otherwise would be and frees savings to finance increases in the capital stock, thereby boosting productivity and real incomes.

  Alan Greenspan

  Real, Long, Debt

  Remarks by Chairman Alan Greenspan before the Bond Market Association, White Sulphur Springs, West Virginia, www.federalreserve.gov. April 27, 2001.

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• A man's behaviour may be quite harmless and even beneficial, when he ismorally behaving like a scoundrel. And he may do great harm when he is morally acting on the highest principles.

  George Bernard Shaw

  Men, Acting, Principles

  1906 BB. The Doctor's Dilemma, act 3.

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• Where nature makes natural allies of us all, we can demonstrate that beneficial relations are possible even with those with whom we most deeply disagree-and this must someday be the basis of world peace and world law.

  John F. Kennedy

  Law, Allies, World

  Kennedy, John F. (1962). “Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: John F. Kennedy, 1961”, p.27, Best Books on

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• Every thing useful and beneficial to man, seems to be connected with obedience to the laws of his nature, the inclinations, the duties, and the happiness of individuals, resolve themselves into customs and habits, favorable, in the highest degree, to society. In no case is this more apparent, than in the customs of nations respecting marriage.

  Samuel Williams

  Men, Law, Degrees

  Samuel Williams (1809). “The Natural and Civil History of Vermont”, p.372

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• The elimination of unnecessary collateral requirements on foreign insurers and reinsurers is not only beneficial for the individual companies, but for the industry as a whole.

  Mike McGavick

  Requirements, Unnecessary, Individual

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• CO2 is so beneficial...it would be crazy to try to reduce it

  Freeman Dyson

  Crazy, Trying, Would Be

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• If we read books all the time we would be very unhealthy, as we would not get any fresh air, exercise, or contact with nature. Also we would not spend time with other people. There are a lot of plusses to reading - it's an interactive brain workout - but like everything else that's beneficial in moderation, overdoses can be dangerous.

  Margaret Atwood

  Workout, Book, Reading

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• Not wasting energy. It is the least sexy, but the single most important and always the least expensive. You would be very interested in a report by the McKinsey consulting firm that concluded that 40 percent of everything that we have to do to mitigate our emissions are net economic winners. They are cost effective and the most cost effective is not wasting energy. That's actually going to be the largest part of this whole journey, I believe - using less energy with the same beneficial results.

  Jay Inslee

  Sexy, Believe, Journey

  "Power Q&A: Rep. Jay Inslee". Interview with Dave Gilson, www.motherjones.com. May/June 2008.

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• Wine is the most noble and beneficial of alcoholic drinks. Wine is for the sedentary whose work is thinking. Natural wines have been used without drunkenness by the millions of human beings for ages. They supply with iron, tannin and vitamins.

  Arthur Brisbane

  Wine, Thinking, Iron

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• Living becomes a glorious experience only when it is sweetened by tolerance and love. Willingness to compromise with others ways of living and cooperation in common tasks, these make living happy and fruitful. Certain modes of behaviour have been laid down and proved beneficial by centuries of practice.

  Sathya Sai Baba

  Practice, Tolerance, Down And

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• The fear and anxiety that infect humanity today are the results of this degradation of values, this ignorance of what is of significance and what is not, this want of faith in what the elders and sages have handed down as the wisdom of ages. People prefer what is pleasing to what is beneficial.

  Sathya Sai Baba

  Ignorance, People, Anxiety

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• I think for most guys, when we grow up we're trying to establish what being a man means to us and so I think it's pretty helpful and beneficial when there's a role model in the house.

  Jonathan McReynolds

  Growing Up, Mean, Men

  Source: www.christianpost.com

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• Let us put our trust in God and console ourselves with the thought that all is well, if it is in accordance with the will of the Almighty, as He knows best what is profitable and beneficial to our temporal happiness and our eternal salvation.

  Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

  Trust In God, Salvation, Almighty

  Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Leopold Mozart (1966). “The Letters of Mozart and His Family”

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• Inclined to peace by his temper and situation, it was easy for [Augustus] to discover that Rome, in her present exalted situation, had much less to hope than to fear from the chance of arms; and that, in the prosecution of remote wars, the undertaking became every day more difficult, the event more doubtful, and the possession more precarious and less beneficial.

  Edward Gibbon

  War, Rome, Events

  Edward Gibbon, Francis Parkman, William H. Prescott, Theodore Roosevelt (2012). “The Modern Library Essential World History 4-Book Bundle: The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire (Abridged); Montcalm and Wolfe; History of the Conquest of Mexico; The Naval War of 1812”, p.59, Modern Library

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• It's bad form to mention money-laundering. Instead, you talk about asset-management structures and tax beneficial schemes.

  John Sweeney

  Money Laundering, Management, Structure

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• There's one beneficial effect of going to Moscow. You come home waving the American flag with all your might.

  Mary Tyler Moore

  Home, Flags, Moscow

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• First, educate yourself about what a vegan diet entails and why it is beneficial to your health. You need to understand and embrace the philosophy or you will not be able to make such a drastic dietary change. Secondly, make the change over time. Don't try and "go cold turkey"; you will shock your system and you will develop cravings that you may not be able to fight off. If you take your time and let your body adjust you will be eating a completely different diet before you realize it.

  Gary Player

  Philosophy, Fighting, Turkeys

  Source: blog.vegansa.com

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• When interviewers ask me who I'm sleeping with or if I don't like such-and-such or what is my sexuality, that's not beneficial to the world. They need to ask me about stuff that may help readers, like how my father abused my mother for many years. A lot of kids go through that and need to know what they should do.

  Missy Elliot

  Mother, Father, Sleep

  "New Again: Missy Elliott". Interview with Michael Musto, www.interviewmagazine.com. July 30, 2014.

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• A sovereign, united and strong Iraq is beneficial for everyone.

  Mahmoud Ahmadinejad

  Strong, Iraq, Sovereign

  "We Are Neither Obstinate nor Gullible". SPIEGEL Interview, www.spiegel.de. April 10, 2009.

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• If a technology is beneficial, everyone should have it. If it is not, no one should have it.

  Mahmoud Ahmadinejad

  Technology, Should Have, Ifs

  "We Are Neither Obstinate nor Gullible". SPIEGEL Interview, www.spiegel.de. April 10, 2009.

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• The governments and the communist parties in Vietnam and China are doing their best to develop their local economies. But the rise of countries in Asia is not in opposition to development and affluence in Western nations. It is a mutually beneficial development. The interests of Western investors are protected in our country. Both we and the West benefit from this in equal measure.

  Nguyen Minh Triet

  Country, Party, Government

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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• There are a lot of people for whom psychedelics have been really beneficial. But I wouldn't recommend it to everyone. Some are just not ready but society would benefit from letting people who are ready for psychedelics have legal acces to them.

  Kary Mullis

  People, Benefits, Ready

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• My understanding of kindness is that we are hoping to be truly beneficial in every situation, and that this desire means a whole suite of things: being nicer, sure, but also being more aware, more present, more articulate, more fearless, less habituated, etc., etc. And sometimes even being firm, or having an edge, or even being angry.

  George Saunders

  Kindness, Mean, Understanding

  "George Saunders on Trump, Mystery, and Why He Rejects Social Media". Interview with Catherine Woodiwiss, sojo.net. August 30, 2016.

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