Beneficial Quotes - Page 5

• 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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• The discovery I announce to the public is one of the small number which, by their principles, their results, and the beneficial influence which they exert upon the arts, are counted among the most useful and extraordinary inventions.

  Louis Daguerre

  Art, Small Numbers, Discovery

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• ... the consensus of the scientific community has shifted from skepticism to near-unanimous acceptance of the evidence of an artificial greenhouse effect. Second, while artificial climate change may have some beneficial effects, the odds are we're not going to like it. Third, reducing emissions of greenhouse gases may turn out to be much more practical and affordable than currently assumed.

  Gregg Easterbrook

  Acceptance, Odds, Community

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• If they can send you to war at 18, maybe it's beneficial for some people to think that most of us gotta go to war for our own existence.

  Chuck D

  War, Thinking, People

  "Rapping the Vote With Chuck D". Interview with Jeff Chang, www.motherjones.com. September 2004.

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• It's really helped a ton in the sense that we get to reach people who don't normally know our music. At least once a night at a show someone will come up to the merch table after the show and say they've never heard of me but they saw me on Troubadour, TX, and it reminds me that I'm not Elvis and anything I can do to get my name out there is beneficial in every way.

  Cody Johnson

  Night, Names, People

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• If you have a temperature rise, if it's a problem in one area, it's beneficial in another area. But sea level is the real 'bad guy,' and therefore they [The IPCC] have talked very much about it. But the real thing is, that [sea level rise] doesn't exist in observational data, only in computer modeling.

  Nils-Axel Morner

  Real, Sea, Data

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• Considering all the different ways in which China has interacted with the world in the last 50 years, considering all the challenges ordinary Chinese people have to put up with, it's beneficial and, and, by any rational standard, non-threatening to have national energies channeled into this kind of competition. It's touching to see so many ordinary Chinese crowds cheering for their new heroes.

  James Fallows

  Cheer, Hero, Years

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• Through yoga, meditation and other spiritual practices, we can learn the ways of personal equanimity. We can also learn how to use language in beneficial ways.

  Satish Kumar

  Spiritual, Yoga, Practice

  Interview with Frank Lipman, www.drfranklipman.com. April 14, 2009.

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• There are many cases around the world in which the presence of UN peace-keeping forces has had a somewhat beneficial effect.

  Noam Chomsky

  World, Force, Cases

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• If one admits that the influence of the outside world is essentially beneficial, the lack of such influence during sleep would tend to diminish the value of our dream activity so as to render it inferior to the mental activity that takes place when we are awake, when we are exposed to these beneficial influences of surrounding reality. But how can one say that the influence of reality is exclusively beneficial. Could it not also be damaging, and could its absence not give access to qualities superior to those that we have when awake?

  Erich Fromm

  Dream, Sleep, Reality

  Source: www.scribd.com

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• Having a good network can be invaluable. It opens doors for you and allows you to enter into opportunities that are beneficial to your business.

  Richard Branson

  Opportunity, Doors, Invaluable

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• Early childhood development has proved to be very beneficial and very cost-effective in societies where this is been tried. So let's not confine ourselves to primary education. Let's think of early childhood development and education as a whole.

  Aung San Suu Kyi

  Thinking, Childhood, Cost

  Source: www.voanews.com

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• I think the Davis Cup has some untapped potential. It should be as prominent as the Grand Slams when it takes place. If you put it together with Fed Cup for an organized, nationalistic team competition taking place in a central location for two weeks, I think that would be beneficial from a fan interest stand point, from a media stand point and from a television stand point.

  Jim Courier

  Team, Thinking, Media

  Source: www.tennis-prose.com

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• I think some of the most beneficial things being an artist has brought to me in film is just you're not afraid to do things. You're used to being in front of people. That's not the problem. The biggest thing is just getting into the character and really delivering.

  Common

  Character, Artist, Thinking

  Source: www.moviesonline.ca

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• It's a weird experience when you're just trying to talk openly about how you think psychedelic drugs and marijuana are beneficial, or a lot of different drugs, especially plant-based ones, can be beneficial. Especially those ones that have some connection to organic life, I feel like you can learn something from them, from mushrooms, from peyote, from marijuana. They can be used as a tool.

  Joe Rogan

  Marijuana, Thinking, Mushrooms

  Source: brightestyoungthings.com

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• For those of us who got into good colleges or the professions, did we stand up to that high school history teacher who told us some ridiculous lie about American history and say, "That's a ridiculous lie. You're an idiot"? No. We said, "All right, I'll keep quiet, and I'll write it in the exam and I'll think, yes, he's an idiot." And it's easy to say and believe things that improve your self-image and your career and that are in other ways beneficial to yourselves.

  Noam Chomsky

  Teacher, Lying, Believe

  Source: progressive.org

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• In many instances, LSD actually produced terrifying and deleterious effects instead of beneficial effects, because of misuse, because it was a profanation.

  Albert Hofmann

  Lsd, Misuse, Instance

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• LSD is no longer playing a bad role in the drug scene and psychiatrists are again trying to submit their proposals for research with this substance to the health authorities. I hope that LSD will again become available in the normal way, for the medical profession. Then it could play the role it really should, a beneficial role.

  Albert Hofmann

  Play, Drug, Trying

  "Stanislav Grof interviews Dr. Albert Hofmann Esalen Institute, Big Sur, California". Interview with Stanislav Grof, www.maps.org. 1984.

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• I wonder if one can view risk like a drug, beneficial to the organism in the proper dose. Too much or too little may be harmful.

  Tom Hornbein

  Climbing, Views, Drug

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• The body needs the rejuvenation that comes from exercise. Walking in the fresh air can be exhilarating and refreshing. Properly directed running can also have some beneficial effects. Simple sit-ups or sports activities can also be helpful.

  Ezra Taft Benson

  Sports, Running, Exercise

  Ezra Taft Benson (1983). “Come unto Christ”, Deseret Book Co

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• Every man's occupation should be beneficial to his fellow-man as well as profitable to himself. All else is vanity and folly.

  P. T. Barnum

  Men, Vanity, Fellow Man

  P.T. BARNUM (1866). “THE HUMBUGS OF THE WORLD”, p.220

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• I don't think peroxide-blond hair is a beneficial look for me.

  Michael Fassbender

  Thinking, Hair, Looks

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• If you invest and don't diversify, you're literally throwing out money. People don't realize that diversification is beneficial even if it reduces your return. Why? Because it reduces your risk even more. Therefore, if you diversify and then use margin to increase your leverage to a risk level equivalent to that of a nondiversified position, your return will probably be greater.

  Jeff Yass

  People, Risk, Use

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• Architecture must concern itself continually with the socially beneficial distortion of the environment.

  Cedric Price

  Architecture, Environment, Distortion

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• By all means attend to your duties. Action, in which you are not emotionally involved and which is beneficial and does not cause suffering will not bind you. You may be engaged in several directions and work with enormous zest, yet remain inwardly free and quiet, with a mirror like mind, which reflects all, without being affected.

  Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj

  Freedom, Mean, Mirrors

  "I Am That" by Nisargadatta Maharaj, p. 50, 1973.

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