Benefits Quotes - Page 40

• Republicans rejected calls for amnesty and we've fought efforts to provide illegal aliens with taxpayer funded benefits. The American people are far closer to our Republican approach to border security than they are to Nancy Pelosi's approach.

  Marsha Blackburn

  People, Effort, Amnesty

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• Women's strength, women's industry, women's wisdom are humankind's greatest untapped resource. The challenge then for U.N. Women is to show our diverse constituencies how this resource can be effectively tapped in ways that benefit us all.

  Michelle Bachelet

  Challenges, Way, Women Strength

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• Give a good deed the credit of a good motive; and give an evil deed the benefit of the doubt.

  Brander Matthews

  Evil, Giving, Doubt

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• It seems to me morally a decent society will try to take some of the increased benefit and use that to alleviate the pain of the few who are bearing the cost that made it possible.

  Tim Bishop

  Pain, Trying, Cost

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• I try to keep myself in what I'm doing and focused on character stuff, as opposed to getting wrapped up in worrying or being nervous. It won't benefit me, in any way, to focus on that.

  Katie Cassidy

  Character, Worry, Focus

  "Katie Cassidy Talks ARROW, Her Desire for Laurel to Take the Black Canary Path, the Character’s Relationship with Oliver, and More". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. October 9, 2012.

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• The interests of the Soviet Union are in controlling highly developed countries and having the benefit of their economies so that they can run their own inefficient empire.

  Barbara Amiel

  Running, Country, Unions

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• Our constituents paid into Social Security, and they want it paid back to them when they retire. Cutting Social Security benefits that Americans have earned should always be a last resort.

  Dennis Cardoza

  Cutting, Want, Lasts

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• 6.6 million people will benefit from a rise in the minimum wage.

  Russ Carnahan

  People, Minimum Wage, Millions

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• If we would have anything of benefit, we must earn it, and earning it become shrewd, inventive, ingenious, active, enterprising.

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Work, Earning It, Effectiveness

  Henry Ward Beecher (1866). “Royal truths”, p.28

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• If we do not resolve the euro crisis, we will all pay the price. And if we do resolve it, we will all benefit, particularly German taxpayers and savers.

  Mario Draghi

  Pay The Price, Euro Crisis, Taxpayers

  "'We Couldn't Just Sit Back and Do Nothing'". Interview with Michael Sauga,Anne Seith, www.spiegel.de. October 29, 2012.

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• Mining asteroids will ultimately benefit humanity on and off the Earth in a multitude of ways.

  Peter Diamandis

  Humanity, Earth, Way

  "Asteroid Impacts Over Russia - Another Larger Rock Passing Very Close to Earth" by Peter Diamandis, www.huffingtonpost.com. February 15, 2013.

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• I'm being told it saves money to shoot in Toronto, because of tax benefits, the crews are cheaper, but what I save in the bottom line, I lose in a million other ways.

  Griffin Dunne

  Toronto, Lines, Way

  "Griffin Dunne is 'Famous'". Interview with Anthony Kaufman, www.indiewire.com. August 21, 2001.

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• You know, the benefit in life is to say, 'Maybe you made a mistake, let’s dig deep.'

  Jamie Dimon

  Mistake, Life Is, Made

  "What Jamie Dimon didn't tell you on 'Meet the Press'" by Michael Hiltzik, articles.latimes.com. May 14, 2012.

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• We benefit from doing nothing, from going out to play, from giving from the heart and spending time in nature. Most of all we benefit from having healthy, strong, and loving relationships with other people and from exercising the altruistic parts of ourselves.

  Jo Ann Davis

  Strong, Heart, Exercise

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• Providing working Minnesotans with at least seven days of paid sick leave every year is the right thing to do to. It benefits our families and helps our businesses become more worker friendly and family friendly.

  Mark Dayton

  Years, Sick, Friendly

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• And finally, to all Canadians: Canada is a great country, one of the hopes of the world. We can be a better one – a country of greater equality, justice, and opportunity. We can build a prosperous economy and a society that shares its benefits more fairly. We can look after our seniors. We can offer better futures for our children. We can do our part to save the world's environment. We can restore our good name in the world.

  Jack Layton

  Senior, Country, Children

  Jack Layton's Letter to Canadians, www.theglobeandmail.com. August 20, 2011.

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• If you're going to use the public resources, you need the public benefit.

  Ron Dellums

  Needs, Use, Resources

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• Music video directors, who conceive, write and direct these works, enjoy no creative rights, receive no ongoing financial benefit from the sale of our work, and many times are not even credited.

  Michael Apted

  Writing, Rights, Creative

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• This is one of the benefits, as well as one of the difficulties of directing a member of your family. You know where the buttons are. You can push them if you want.

  Emilio Estevez

  Buttons, Want, Members

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• Rent-control laws disproportionately benefit the non-poor because the elite pull strings, work the system and are better connected than the non-poor.

  Larry Elder

  Law, Poor, Rent Control

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• With firm faith in our hearts, to sustain us along the hard road to victory, we will find our way to a secure peace, for the ultimate benefit of all humanity.

  Harry S. Truman

  Heart, Humanity, Victory

  United States. President (1945-1953 : Truman), Harry S. Truman (1961). “Harry S. Truman: Containing the Public Messages, Speeches, and Statements of the President, 1945-53”

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• This is the patent-age of new inventions For killing bodies, and for saving souls, All propagated with the best intentions; Sir Humphrey Davy's lantern, by which coals Are safely mined for in the mode he mentions, Tombuctoo travels, voyages to the Poles, Are ways to benefit mankind, as true, Perhaps, as shooting them at Waterloo.

  Lord Byron

  Science, Soul, Age

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• Numerous studies document the benefits to students from school grounds that are ecologically diverse and include free play areas, habitats for wildlife, walking trails, and gardens.

  Richard Louv

  Nature, School, Garden

  Richard Louv (2013). “Last Child in the Woods: Saving our Children from Nature-Deficit Disorder”, p.172, Atlantic Books Ltd

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• Risks I think are the thing that make life important and everything that you and I do is risk vs. benefit. Is there a risk to sending your kid out? Absolutely. Is there a benefit? It exceeds the risk.

  C. Everett Koop

  Nature, Kids, Thinking

  "Should we drop kids off at the park - by themselves?", www.today.com. May 21, 2010.

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• That is, while we believe that cost-benefit analysis is an important tool to inform agency decision making, the results of the cost-benefit analysis do not trump existing law

  Fred Thompson

  Believe, Cost Benefit Analysis, Law

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