Whoever benefits his enemy with straightforward intention that man's enemies will soon fold their hands in devotion.
~By Henry Wadsworth Longfellow ~
Friendship always benefits; love sometimes injures.
~By Seneca ~
Staying married may have long-term benefits. You can elicit much more sympathy from friends over a bad marriage than you ever can from a good divorce.
~By P. J. O'Rourke ~
The space industry is developing and delivering benefits that tie into our immediate needs and priorities here on Earth-for example, medical and materials research, and satellite communications.
~By Marc Garneau ~
As to the advantages of temperance in the training of the armed forces and of its benefits to the members of the forces themselves, there can be no doubt in the world.
~By William Lyon Mackenzie King ~
The right of each individual in any relation to secure to himself the full benefits of his intelligence, his capacity, his industry and skill are among the inalienable inheritances of humanity.
~By Leland Stanford ~
Many soldiers returning from Iraq and Afghanistan suffer from serious, long-term, physical and mental health problems, due to their service. It is unconscionable to cut the already limited health care benefits available to these brave men and women.
~By Mark Dayton ~
I wanted to make sure that this be the first scientific and technology revolution in history in which the public thoroughly discussed all the potential benefits and all the potential harms, in advance of the technology coming online and running its course.
~By Jeremy Rifkin ~
Outsourcing and globalization of manufacturing allows companies to reduce costs, benefits consumers with lower cost goods and services, causes economic expansion that reduces unemployment, and increases productivity and job creation.
~By Larry Elder ~
That old man dies prematurely whose memory records no benefits conferred. They only have lived long who have lived virtuously.
~By Richard Brinsley Sheridan ~
Nonetheless, the developing countries must be able to reap the benefits of international trade.
~By Anna Lindh ~
There is no social program in this country that is as important as a good job that pays well, that gives someone an opportunity to go to work, have some security, have benefits, and take care of their family and have a good life.
~By Byron Dorgan ~
Any doctor will admit that any drug can have side effects, and that writing a prescription involves weighing the potential benefits against the risks.
~By Mark Udall ~
When we give a subsidy, the benefits to the public ought to exceed the benefits to the company. When it doesn't, that's our definition of corporate welfare.
~By John Kasich ~
Alfred Nobel was much concerned, as are we all, with the tangible benefits we hope for and expect from physiological and medical research, and the Faculty of the Caroline Institute has ever been alert to recognize practical benefits.
~By Haldan Keffer Hartline ~
Indeed, I think most Americans now know that in 1935 when Social Security was created, there were some 42 Americans working for every American collecting retirement benefits.
~By John Shadegg ~
There is so much work to be done to treat gays and lesbians and gay and lesbian couples with the respect that they're entitled to. They deserve, in my judgment, partnership benefits. They deserve to be treated fairly when it comes to adoption and immigration.
~By John Edwards ~
We can be thankful to a friend for a few acres, or a little money; and yet for the freedom and command of the whole earth, and for the great benefits of our being, our life, health, and reason, we look upon ourselves as under no obligation.
~By Lucius Annaeus Seneca ~
The vicious circle has been shattered. Canadians now enjoy the benefits of the virtuous circle.
~By Paul Martin ~
Since, therefore, individuals as well as the public are so indebted to these writers for the benefits they enjoy, I think them not only entitled to the honour of palms and crowns, but even to be numbered among the gods.
~By Marcus V. Pollio ~
We will see a breakdown of the family and family values if we decide to approve same-sex marriage, and if we decide to establish homosexuality as an acceptable alternative lifestyle with all the benefits that go with equating it with the heterosexual lifestyle.
~By Jerry Falwell ~
To honor our national promise to our veterans, we must continue to improve services for our men and women in uniform today and provide long overdue benefits for the veterans and military retirees who have already served.
~By Solomon Ortiz ~
I do not believe that the Social Security system is in crisis. The Social Security Administration itself recently reported that the system is able to pay full benefits as they are defined today until at least 2042.
~By James T. Walsh ~
And there is no getting away from the fact - and this is a key point of discontent among many who are upset with the health care reform bill is it didn't go far enough. They say why isn't it in place now? Why don't I see some benefits now? All I see is the potential for losing insurance coverage, for premiums going up. That's hurting Obama.
~By Juan Williams ~
While some people are certainly seeing economic benefits, many others are unemployed, underemployed, without health insurance and struggling to make ends meet.
~By Jerry Costello ~
I respect the state workers and I respect their unions, but we simply can't afford to pay benefits and pensions that are out of line with economic reality.
~By Andrew Cuomo ~
Globalisation, which benefits only multi-national companies and takes away all sense of local or national pride and identity, is the biggest threat facing all the member states of the EU.
~By Steve Blake ~
In my case, I pay a standard premium to participate in the Federal Employees' Health Benefits Plan for my wife and myself out of each month's paycheck.
~By Virgil Goode ~
Street and park trees provide tremendous benefits to cities.
~By Gavin Newsom ~
The American people depend on these federal employees to process, investigate, and adjudicate applications for immigration rights and benefits in a timely and thorough manner.
~By Joe Baca ~
Because one of the benefits of getting older, I guess-there are very few benefits, really - most of them are a pain in the butt. People depend on me more; they believe in me more, they think I'm good.
~By Lawrence Halprin ~
While we have made great progress in increasing funding for veterans' benefits, we still have a long way to go in fully meeting the promise to our veterans.
~By Sue Kelly ~
We are beginning to see the benefits of global consolidation.
~By Lakshmi Mittal ~
Those who want to reap the benefits of this great nation must bear the fatigue of supporting it.
~By Thomas Payne ~
Many rock musicians are excellent cooks, I've found, and those that are prefer to eat their own cooking in the studio. I encourage this behavior as I also enjoy the benefits of fresh food.
~By Steve Albini ~
There's been a lot said about Social Security reform. What has been left out of the debate is the double tax on Social Security benefits. I believe it's time to get rid of a tax that punishes seniors and discourages work and retirement savings.
~By Rob Simmons ~
Who most benefits from keeping marijuana illegal? The greatest beneficiaries are the major criminal organizations in Mexico and elsewhere that earn billions of dollars annually from this illicit trade - and who would rapidly lose their competitive advantage if marijuana were a legal commodity.
~By George Soros ~
Germany, I think, was first to substitute a Social Security program for its elderly based on this premise, that is, that we would tax workers to pay retirement benefits for those retired.
~By John Shadegg ~
The employer class is less indispensable in the modern organization of industries because the laboring men themselves possess sufficient intelligence to organize into co-operative relation and enjoy the entire benefits of their own labor.
~By Leland Stanford ~
Without significant reform, the Social Security Administration will be legally and financially unable to pay full promised benefits within a generation.
~By Ron Lewis ~
Equal pay isn't just a women's issue; when women get equal pay, their family incomes rise and the whole family benefits.
~By Mike Honda ~
I thought, I'm only going to be on this planet once, and only for a short time. What can I do with my life that will lead to permanent benefits?
~By John Templeton ~
I will support legislation that benefits the American worker and prevents the outsourcing of American jobs.
~By Ed Pastor ~
Remember the two benefits of failure. First, if you do fail, you learn what doesn't work; and second, the failure gives you the opportunity to try a new approach.
~By Roger von Oech ~
As a co-chair of the State's 2010 Olympics Task Force, I am working to make sure our border crossings are ready to handle the risks and benefits the Games will bring.
~By Rick Larsen ~
Globalization presumes sustained economic growth. Otherwise, the process loses its economic benefits and political support.
~By Paul Samuelson ~
In inquiring concerning the benefits of the plan proposed, I shall proceed upon the supposition that female seminaries will be patronized throughout our country.
~By Emma Willard ~
There's a real danger in doing a sequel. There are some benefits, but that all hinges on how well you execute. Quite frankly, most sequels don't execute well.
~By Donnie Wahlberg ~
Happy indeed is the scientist who not only has the pleasures which I have enumerated, but who also wins the recognition of fellow scientists and of the mankind which ultimately benefits from his endeavors.
~By Irving Langmuir ~
Write your injuries in dust, your benefits in marble.
~By Benjamin Franklin ~
But reducing harmful emissions, abating our dependence on foreign oil and developing alternative renewable energy sources have benefits that go beyond environmental health, they improve personal health, enhance national security and encourage our nation's economic viability.
~By Jim Clyburn ~
I want to work on respecting individuals' dignity. Equal rights, that's where my heart is. That means equal rights and benefits, and that's what we need.
~By Christine Gregoire ~
As I've been able to once again gain the benefits of speed work, I'm enjoying my running more and more.
~By Frank Shorter ~
There are minds so impatient of inferiority that their gratitude is a species of revenge, and they return benefits, not because recompense is a pleasure, but because obligation is a pain.
~By Samuel Johnson ~
They keep extending these unemployment benefits to the point where people are afraid to go out and get a job, because the job doesn't pay as much as the unemployment benefit does.
~By Sharron Angle ~
Americans cannot maintain their essential faith in government if there are two Americas, in which the private sector's work subsidizes the disproportionate benefits of this new public sector elite.
~By Mortimer Zuckerman ~
History suggests that attempts to privatize Medicare by relying on private companies to offer Medicare benefits in rural America simply will not work.
~By Bennie Thompson ~
We must expect to fail... but fail in a learning posture, determined no to repeat the mistakes, and to maximize the benefits from what is learned in the process.
~By Ted W. Engstrom ~
Because what happens is, as the economy suffers, tax revenues go down. But unlike businesses, where at least your variable costs go down, in government your variable costs go up: unemployment insurance, workmen's compensation, health care benefits, welfare, you name it.
~By Meg Whitman ~
Whatever I have not yet learned to tolerate in myself inevitably will appear in my children. In this way, they, like Julia, guide me to a new level of self-awareness and everyone benefits.
~By Kenny Loggins ~
Oh, definitely and you know you take the bitter with the sweet but the benefits far outweigh the burdens of what I've been able to do for my family, my word.
~By Star Jones ~
The real destroyer of the liberties of the people is he who spreads among them bounties, donations and benefits.
~By Plutarch ~
The child benefits more from being valued than evaluated.
~By Don Dinkmeyer ~
Harvey never had an original idea or thought in his life. I was out wandering around the country doing charity benefits, mainly, when I asked him to come along.
~By Tim Conway ~
The new technologies that we see coming will have major benefits that will greatly alleviate human suffering.
~By Ralph Merkle ~
Patients describing the benefits of prayer often talk about how it provides a sense of well being.
~By Armstrong Williams ~
Write injuries in dust, benefits in marble.
~By Benjamin Franklin ~
A retired teacher paid $62,000 towards her pension and nothing, yes nothing, for full family medical, dental and vision coverage over her entire career. What will we pay her? $1.4 million in pension benefits and another $215,000 in health care benefit premiums over her lifetime.
~By Chris Christie ~
More young people believe they'll see a U.F.O. than that they'll see their own Social Security benefits.
~By Mitch McConnell ~
The President's proposed privatization plan would jeopardize that security by cutting guaranteed benefits for future retirees and endangering the benefits of current retirees, people with disabilities, and children who have lost a parent.
~By Chaka Fattah ~
If you're totally illiterate and living on one dollar a day, the benefits of globalization never come to you.
~By Jimmy Carter ~
Trade reform has also been linked to increased income disparity as skilled workers have captured more benefits from globalization than their unskilled counterparts.
~By Stephen F. Lynch ~
Col. Shaffer is prohibited by his lawyer from talking. He's at great risk. They want to take away his pay and his health care benefits so they can hold it over his head and not allow him to talk while he's under suspension. This is not America.
~By Curt Weldon ~
The American economic, political, and social organization has given to its citizens the benefits of material prosperity, political liberty, and a wholesome natural equality; and this achievement is a gain, not only to Americans, but to the world and to civilization.
~By Herbert Croly ~
Benefits should be conferred gradually; and in that way they will taste better.
~By Niccolo Machiavelli ~
I do benefits for all religions - I'd hate to blow the hereafter on a technicality.
~By Bob Hope ~
In a government whose distinguishing characteristic should be a diffusion and equalization of its benefits and burdens the advantage of individuals will be augmented at the expense of the community at large.
~By Martin Van Buren ~
The true measure of your worth includes all the benefits others have gained from your success.
~By Cullen Hightower ~
The more we can do to create a better society, that benefits more people, the better chance we have that our society will continue to grow and prosper.
~By Sanford I. Weill ~
That the Jews assumed a right exclusively to the benefits of God will be a lasting witness against them and the same will it be against Christians.
~By William Blake ~
What we can do is to explain as clearly as possible what the benefits would be of him going down one path, and what the potential consequences would be if he chooses another path.
~By Mitchell Reiss ~
The success of each of us benefits us all, and the success of us all benefits each of us individually.
~By Walter Ulbricht ~
Nothing is more pleasing and engaging than the sense of having conferred benefits. Not even the gratification of receiving them.
~By Ellis Peters ~
Well, I think the camera freedom is something that we've resisted for a long time and feels like probably the biggest stretch. But it has some huge benefits.
~By Will Wright ~
Under the current pay-as-you-go Social Security system, not one person is actually guaranteed benefits.
~By Ginny B. Waite ~
The benefits of the accomplished journey cannot be weighed in terms of perfect moments, but in terms of how this journey affects and changes our character.
~By Ella Maillart ~
Once you get that two-way energy thing going, everyone benefits hugely.
~By James Taylor ~
From the business point of view, always encouraging the people in our company to own stock in the company, and if we're going to build something great, to have a lot of people share in the benefits of that greatness.
~By Sanford I. Weill ~
I will work with my colleagues on both sides of the aisle to preserve the Social Security promise that provides secure retirement benefits for all, especially those who are most at risk such as widows, orphans, and people with disabilities when the need arises.
~By Chaka Fattah ~
But some one will say that this supreme Being, who made all things, and those also who conferred on men particular benefits, are entitled to their respective worship.
~By Lactantius ~
Don't say it's because of benefits, because our benefits are good.
~By Lee Scott ~
I'm always active in trying to educate people when it comes to eating animal products, testing on animals, and the health benefits of being vegan, although I'm probably not the best person to be talking about the latter at the moment.
~By Daniel Johns ~
We hope that this honor you have done us will bring the time of further realization of these benefits closer and will help all mankind to live better and be happier through the atom and isotopes.
~By Willard Libby ~
There is no question of the benefits that opening a market of a billion people will bring to American businesses. But as I said last year, this will test China and the world trade system.
~By William M. Daley ~
If leaders in the space program had at its beginning in the 1940s, pointed out the benefits to people on earth rather than emphasizing the search for proof of evolution in space, the program would have saved $100 billion in tax money and achieved greater results.
~By Walter Lang ~
All Americans have a sacred duty to guarantee Social Security benefits to our nation's senior citizens.
~By Steve King ~
More broadly, we are going to have to examine the safety net programs to make sure they are poised to catch the families before they fall even more, especially in the areas of unemployment benefits, child care assistance, and foster care.
~By Richard Neal ~
We can preserve Social Security benefits for generations of Americans without privatizing this important program.
~By Richard Neal ~
The benefits of science are not to be reckoned only in terms of the physical.
~By Henry Taube ~
The Bio-diversity Convention has not yielded any tangible benefits to the world's poor.
~By Atal Bihari Vajpayee ~
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