“If you have any helpful suggestions I'd be pleased to hear them. If all you can do is make snide insinuations then it would probably benefit all concerned if you bestowed the fruits of your prodigious wit on someone with the spare time to give them the consideration they doubtless deserve.” IfsGivingCan DoBenefitsDeserveConcernedFruitWitConsiderationHelpfulSparesSuggestionsSpare TimeProdigious Author:Iain Banks
“To estimate the value of Newton's discoveries, or the delight communicated by Shakespeare and Milton, by the price at which their works have sold, would be but a poor measure of the degree in which they have elevated and enchanted their country; nor would it be less grovelling and incongruous to estimate the benefit which the country has derived from the Revolution of 1688, by the pay of the soldiers, and all other payments concerned in effecting it.” CountryWould BeValuesPoorPayRevolutionDegreesBenefitsDiscoveryConcernedSoldierDelightPaymentNewtonEnchantedMilton Book:Principles of political economy considered with a view to their practical application Source: Principles of political economy considered with a view to their practical application
“No single Tibetan dreaming return of previous sort of backwardness, therefore as far as economy development is concerned, Tibet remain within the People's Republic of China, we will get greater benefit.” PeopleDreamEconomyGreaterDevelopmentReturnBenefitsConcernedChinaRepublicTibetanTibet Author:Dalai Lama
“I'm much more concerned about what artists think. But as you get older you tend to get much more isolated; you're not out in the bar, having long drunken arguments on the benefits of your work vs. someone else's. It's hard to know how people are looking at it, and you don't get much feedback. The written critical stuff seems to be the feedback, but that's hard to interpret.” PeopleThinkingKnowsLongHardSeemsArtistStuffKnow HowWrittenBenefitsConcernedArgumentCriticalBarsIsolatedFeedback Author:Brice Marden
“When Congress votes for all sorts of benefits, without voting for enough taxes to pay for them, they get the support of those who have been promised the benefits, without getting grief from the taxpayers. It's strictly win-win as far as the welfare-state politicians are concerned. But it is strictly lose-lose, big-time, for the country, as deficits skyrocket.” Has BeensCountryStatesEnoughBigsWinningLosesGriefPaySupportPoliticianTaxesBenefitsConcernedVoteCongressWelfareVotingDeficitTaxpayersWelfare StateWin Win Author:Thomas Sowell
“The pioneer labor historian John Commons was not wrong when he wrote around World War One that exploiting and deepening such tensions as outpacing scientific management among U.S. innovations where bossing was concerned. Amidst the general miseries of proletarianization, workers also learned that one source of meager benefits and protections could lie in claiming a white skin.” WorldWarLyingWhiteSourceBenefitsConcernedLaborSkinsInnovationManagementMiseryWorkersProtectionWar Of The WorldsTensionHistorianPioneersWorld War OneWhite Skin Author:David Roediger