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«As your faith is strengthened you will find that there is no longer the need to have a sense of control, that things will flow as they will, and that you will flow with them, to your great delight and benefit.»
Author: Emmanuel Teney
| About:
Faith,
Needs
| Keywords:
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«Information is a source of learning. But unless it is organized, processed, and available to the right people in a format for decision making, it is a burden, not a benefit.»
Author: William Pollard
| About:
Information
| Keywords:
available, benefit, burden, decision, decision making, format, information, learning process, organized, organizes, processed, source
«In unsettled times like these, when world cultures, countries and religions are facing off in violent confrontations, we could benefit from the reminder that storytelling is common to all civilizations. Whether in the form of a sprawling epic or a pointed ballad, the story is our most ancient method of making sense out of experience and of preserving the past.»
«Do not believe in anything simply because you have heard it. Do not believe in anything simply because it is spoken and rumored by many. Do not believe in anything simply because it is found written in your religious books. Do not believe in anything merely on the authority of your teachers and elders. Do not believe in traditions because they have been handed down for many generations. But after observation and analysis, when you find that anything agrees with reason and is conducive to the good and benefit of one and all, then accept it and live up to it.»
Author: Buddha
| About:
Belief
| Keywords:
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«All government, indeed every human benefit and enjoyment, every virtue, and every prudent act, is founded on compromise and barter.»
Author: Edmund Burke
(Philosopher, Statesman)
| About:
Commitment,
Government
| Keywords:
barter, bartering, barters, benefit, compromise, enjoyment, founded, prudent
«All the blessings we enjoy are Divine deposits, committed to our trust on this condition, that they should be dispensed for the benefit of our neighbors»
Author: John Calvin
(Statesman, Theologian)
| About:
Blessings
| Keywords:
benefit, blessings, deposited, depositing, deposits, dispensed, dispenses, dispensing, neighbors
«If you are ever in doubt as to whether to kiss a pretty girl, always give her the benefit of the doubt»
Author: Thomas Carlyle
(Essayist, Historian)
| Keywords:
as to, benefit, Benefit of the Doubt, girl, pretty
«But because many endeavor to get knowledge rather than to live well, they are often deceived and reap little or no benefit from their labor.»
«But after observation and analysis, when you find that anything agrees with reason and is conducive to the good and benefit of one and all, then accept it and live up to it»
Author: Buddha
| Keywords:
accept, after, agreeing, agrees, analysis, benefit, conducive, good and, Good Living, live up to, observation, One Good Reason, reason, to it, up to, with reason
«A fool who, after plain warning, persists in dosing himself with dangerous drugs should be free to do so, for his death is a benefit to the race in general»
Author: Henry Louis Mencken
(Critic, Journalist)
| Keywords:
benefit, Be Free, doses, dosing, drugs, in general, persists, plain, warning
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