Beneficial Quotes - Page 10

• I have not been part of an active counterculture movement, as it is not the approach that I have personally pursued to create a qualitatively beneficial and meaningful impact on society.

  Al Seckel

  Meaningful, Impact, Counter Culture

  "An Interesting Walk Through Counterculture" by Al Seckel, www.huffingtonpost.com. April 2, 2009.

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• Networking is simply the cultivating of mutually beneficial, give and take, win-win relationships. It works best, however, when emphasizing the "give" part.

  Bob Burg

  Relationship, Winning, Giving

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• A half-hour walk is the most beneficial thing you can do for your ailments.

  Ernie J Zelinski

  Retirement, Half, Hours

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• [T]ake the war on drugs. The average American says, "The war on drugs has been beneficial." The rest of us see reality. This war has destroyed thousands of Americans. It is also a pretext for government agents to rob innocent people in airports and on the highways - they seize and confiscate large amounts of cash and say to their victims: "Sue us if you don't like it." And more and more judges, politicians, intelligence agents, and law-enforcement officers are on the take - as dependent on the drug-war largess as the drug lords themselves.

  Jacob G. Hornberger

  War, Reality, Average

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• In music, you collaborate with people. It's supposed to be a mutually beneficial thing.

  Kid Cudi

  People, Supposed To Be

  "All The Right Moves". Interview with Joe La Puma, www.complex.com. June, 2015.

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• Technology without hate can be so beneficial for mankind, but in conjunction with hatred, it leads to disaster.

  Simon Wiesenthal

  Hate, Technology, Hatred

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• What is done for the children is doubly beneficial, since their success, obvious to everyone, educates the parents as well.

  Franz Grillparzer

  Success, Education, Children

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• Bad deeds, and deeds hurtful to ourselves, are easy to do; what is beneficial and good, that is very difficult to do.

  Max Muller

  Hurtful, Deeds, Easy

  F. Max Muller (2000). “Wisdom of the Buddha: The Unabridged Dhammapada”, p.20, Courier Corporation

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• The risk is that you furnish the project with new suggestions to try and freshen it up; it's not always beneficial. You risk betraying the original intention with the story, forgetting what it is you really want to portray.

  Lars von Trier

  Betrayal, Risk, Trying

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• The great Initiates in the spirit world have vast and imposing plans for the musical future. What is this plan? It is to use music as an occult medium through which to develop altered states of consciousness, psychic abilities, and contact with the spirit world. Music in the future is to be used to bring people into yet closer touch with the devils; they will be enabled to partake of the beneficial influence of these beings while attending concerts at which by the appropriate type of sound they have been invoked.

  John Todd

  Psychics, People, Musical

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• When man invented the bicycle he reached the peak of his attainments. Here was a machine of precision and balance for the convenience of man. And (unlike subsequent inventions for man's convenience) the more he used it, the fitter his body became. Here, for once, was a product of man's brain that was entirely beneficial to those who used it, and of no harm or irritation to others. Progress should have stopped when man invented the bicycle.

  Elizabeth West

  Philosophy, Healing, Men

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• Say, this new home building idea of President Hoover's sounds good. They are working out a lot of beneficial things. The only thing is it took 'em so long to think of any of 'em. We ought to have plans in case of depression, just like we do in case of fire, 'Walk, don't run, to the nearest exit.'

  Will Rogers

  Running, Business, Home

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• Killing is fundamentally in our nature because over the eons of human evolution murder was so surprisingly beneficial in the intense game of reproductive competition.

  David Buss

  Games, Competition, Evolution

  "Professor Conducted A Huge Study To Find Out Why People Kill" by Erin Fuchs, www.businessinsider.com. February 17, 2013.

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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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• I love travel. There's nothing more beneficial than getting to travel, to see different cultures, to see different environments and expose your children to that.

  Teri Hatcher

  Children, Different, Culture

  "Teri Hatcher Talks PLANES, Why Her Character Is a Role Model for Girls, Her Hopes for PLANES 2". Interview with Sheila Roberts, collider.com. August 5, 2013.

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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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• I feel the desire, or rather the intense need, to do something useful for society, and that is what stimulates me. In every situation I always look for what is positive and beneficial for my fellow citizens.

  Antoni Tapies

  Generosity, Desire, Needs

  "Antoni Tapies". UNESCO Courier, June 1994.

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• When prayer, rituals and ascetic life are just a means of self-indulgence, they are harmful rather than beneficial. This is quite obvious to people nowadays, when it is widely recognised that fixations are not the same as valuable and laudable observances. One should not pray if that prayer is vanity; rituals are wrong when they provide lower satisfactions, like emotional stimulus instead of enlightenment; he or she should not be an ascetic who is only enjoying it.

  Idries Shah

  Prayer, Mean, Emotional

  Idries Shah (1991). “Seeker After Truth”, p.22, Octagon Press Ltd

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• I think Santa Claus is, by and large, quite beneficial, for when the child is finally allowed -- or forced -- to recognize the nonexistence of Santa Claus, then the child is able to go through the vital intellectual process of reconstructing reality in light of new evidence, complete with back-forming new stories to account for past events. This prepares the child for many other disillusionments and gives her vital and well-supported experience in maintaining her grip on reality independent of the stories told to her at any given time.

  Orson Scott Card

  Children, Independent, Past

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• Prosperity is apt to prevent us from examining our conduct; but adversity leads us to think properly of our state, and so is beneficial to us.

  Bruce Lee

  Adversity, Thinking, Prosperity

  Bruce Lee (2015). “Bruce Lee Striking Thoughts: Bruce Lee's Wisdom for Daily Living”, p.98, Tuttle Publishing

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• There are only three kinds of people. LEADERS. Those who take charge, build, inspire, and create. FOLLOWERS. Those who support leaders and work to achieve mutually beneficial goals.... [and] DESTROYERS. Destroyers cannot find it within themselves to follow anyone, their hatred and insecurity is too pure to see strength in any OTHER being. The utterly lack the ability to inspire or create, so they do the only thing left to them -- they tear down all they come in contact with.

  Rick Remender

  Goal, People, Hatred

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