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“There seems a general rule that, the more obviously one’s work benefits other people, the less one is likely to be paid for it.”

People Seems Benefits Paid

Author:David Graeber

“People don't seem to make the connection between their tax money and the benefits that they get from their tax money, like free education, and the fire department, and police protection, and everything else. It drives me bonkers, because it's pretty straightforward to me.”

People Seems Fire Taxes Benefits Connections Police Protection Department Straightforward Free Education Fire Department Police Protection

Author:Michael Schur

“No one supposed that dinoflagellates might actively kill fish as an evolved response for their own specific advantage, including a potential nutritional benefit for the algal cells. And yet the dinoflagellates do seem to be killing and eating fishes in a manner suggesting active evolution for this most peculiar reversal.”

Seems Might Evolution Benefits Eating Advantage Response Killing Including Fishes Active Cells Peculiar Suggesting Reversal

Book:Leonardo's Mountain of Clams and the Diet of Worms: Essays on Natural History

Source: Leonardo's Mountain of Clams and the Diet of Worms: Essays on Natural History

“Writers don't seem to benefit much by the advance of science, although they thrive on superstitions of all kinds.”

Kind Seems Benefits All Kinds Thrive Superstitions

Book:Educated Imagination and Other Writings on Critical Theory, 1933-1962

Source: Educated Imagination and Other Writings on Critical Theory, 1933-1962

“It is clear that the main tenet of socialism, community of goods, must be utterly rejected, since it only injures those whom it would seem meant to benefit, is directly contrary to the natural rights of mankind, and would introduce confusion and disorder into the commonweal. The first and most fundamental principle, therefore, if one would undertake to alleviate the condition of the masses, must be the inviolability of private property.”

Source: A Light in the Heavens: Great Encyclical Letters of Pope Leo XIII

“Art belongs to all times and to all countries; its special benefit is precisely to be still living when everything else seems dying; that is why Providence shields it from too personal or too general passions, and grants it a patient and persevering organization, durable sensibility, and the contemplative sense in which lies invincible faith.”

Art Stills Country Seems Lying Passion Special Dying Benefits Art Is Organization Patient All Time Grants Providence Sensibility Shields Invincible Contemplative

Author:George Sand

“It seems a strange fact that it is almost more important for us to be happy ourselves than to try to make other people happy. By being happy we confer untold benefits upon our fellow men.”

People Men Trying Important Facts Seems Happiness Strange Benefits Fellows Fellow Man

Book:My Pillow Book

Source: My Pillow Book

“The fallacy is that politicians don't really do much about social issues. They just demonize their opponents as elitists and reap the benefit. It's a stupid way to do politics. Economic issues can more often be addressed concretely, and it would seem logical for people to vote their interests in this area.”

People Way Seems Social Interest Issues Economic Stupid Politician Benefits Areas Vote Opponents Logical Social Issues Reap Fallacy Often Is Elitist Economic Issues

Author:Timothy Noah

“I love festivals because they seem like more of an artsy, supportive attitude - which benefits a more theatrical performer sometimes with having theater and other non-club venues, as well as the audience being filled with other artists. It's nice to be with other comics, as usually at other road gigs, I'm solo for the most part.”

Wells Sometimes Seems Artist Attitude Audience Nice Benefits Theater Filled Clubs Performers Solo Supportive Festivals Gigs Theatrical Venues

Author:Maria Bamford

“Men are not only prone to forget benefits; they even hate those who have obliged them, and cease to hate those who have injured them. The necessity of revenging an injury, or of recompensing a benefit seems a slavery to which they are unwilling to submit.”

Men Seems Hate Forget Benefits Slavery Cease Injury Submit Obliged Injured Unwilling Benevolence

Author:Francois de La Rochefoucauld

“I think the fear of being seen as childish or crazy severely limits our enjoyment of the world around us, thus inducing a state of boredom that in turn gives rise to much of the stupidity and meanness that oftem seem to epitomize the human condtion. In fact, these ills merely signify that the dues we pay for adult respectability are far too high, and bring some 'benefits' of questionable value.”

Thinking World Giving Humans States Facts Seems Values Turns Fear Pay Crazy Limits Benefits Adults Stupidity Dues Enjoyment Boredom Meanness Questionable Respectability

Author:D. Patrick Miller

“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.”

People Thinking Knows Long Hard Seems Artist Stuff Know How Written Benefits Concerned Argument Critical Bars Isolated Feedback

Author:Brice Marden

“I'm a reasonable kind of guy. If I hear something that seems to make sense, I'm willing to give it the benefit of the doubt. If the alternative explanation has to be pounded into shape before it fits the mould of our experience, it seems to me that it's unlikely to be true.”

Ifs Giving Kind Seems Guy Doubt Willing Fit Shapes Benefits Being True Alternatives Make Sense Explanation Reasonable Unlikely Mould Benefit Of The Doubt

Author:Frank Schatzing

“People always - I think were surprised about me connecting with folks in small town Iowa. And the reason I did was - first of all, I had the benefit that at the time nobody expected me to win. And so I wasn't viewed through this prism of Fox News and conservative media making me scary. At the time, I didn't think seem scary, other than just having a funny name. I seemed young.”

People Thinking Firsts Reason Seems Young Winning Names Media Benefits News Towns Folks Conservative Scary Expected Foxes Small Town Connecting Iowa Fox News Prisms Funny Name

Author:Barack Obama

“The profit motive, indecorous though it may seem, may represent the best chance the poor have to reap some of globalization's benefits.”

May Seems Chance Poor Benefits Profit Motive Globalization Reap Profit Motive

Author:James Surowiecki

“Every bishop can testify to the promptings that attend calls to serve in the Church. Frequently the call seems to be for the benefit not so much of those to be taught or led as for the person who is to teach or lead.”

Persons Seems Church Teach Taught Benefits Bishops

Book:Live the Good Life

Source: Live the Good Life

“The American middle class, it seems to me, is looking to politicians now to satisfy a pretty basic - and urgent - level of need. Yet people in the upper middle class - with their excellent health benefits, schools, salaries, retirement plans, nannies and private afterschool programs - have journeyed so far from that level of need that, it often seems to me, they literally cannot hear what resonates with the middle class. That creates a problematic blind spot for those who write, edit or produce what comes to be known about our politicians and their policies.”

“What economic libralisation needs, if it is to succeed , is a general acceptance that reforms are for the general good, that they might seem to help some more than others, but that in the long run everyone will benefit from them. Such attitude is far from being realized”

Ifs Needs Long Helping Seems Might Running Attitude Economic Acceptance Succeed Benefits Reform Being Real Long Runs

Author:Shashi Tharoor

“It sometimes seems to me that some of our Western partners do not want Russia to fully recover. They would like Russia to be in a subdued state, and they want Russian resources to be used for the benefit of the U.S. economy.”

Want Sometimes States Seems Used Economy Benefits Resources Western Partners Russia

Author:Mikhail Gorbachev

“When I talk to a few thousand people, I just feel I am talking to an old friend. Like that. I never felt some kind of distance, so therefore, I feel one source of happiness. In that kind of atmosphere, my experience seems some benefit to some people.”

People Feels Kind Seems Felt Talking Source Thousand Benefits Distance Atmosphere Old Friends Source Of Happiness

Author:Dalai Lama

“I also have two children under three who keep me up all night and don't seem to understand the benefits of sitting in silence, which has presented an interesting challenge.”

Children Two Seems Night Three Challenges Interesting Silence Benefits Sitting All Night Up All Night Sitting In Silence

Author:Misha Collins

“Some people say Russia is running at 50 percent of its gross domestic product under that during the Communist period. In fact, none of the countries seems to have recovered the level that they had under communism, although the other countries in Eastern Europe are doing better than Russia and particularly the Czech Republic seems to be doing modestly well. East Germany I can't count because they have a rich uncle. You have economic benefits which have nothing to do with the workings of the system.”

“What is black empowerment when it seems to benefit not the vast majority but an elite that tends to be recycled?”

Seems Black Benefits Empowerment Majority Elites Recycled

Author:Desmond Tutu

“Roads get wider and busier and less friendly to pedestrians. And all of the development based around cars, like big sprawling shopping malls. Everything seems to be designed for the benefit of the automobile and not the benefit of the human being.”

Humans Bigs Seems Human Beings Car Development Benefits Friendly Shopping Automobile Malls Pedestrians Busier

Author:Bill Bryson

“Just when all seems to be going right, challenges often come in multiple doses applied simultaneously. When those trials are not consequences of your disobedience, they are evidence that the Lord feels you are prepared to grow more. He therefore gives you experiences that stimulate growth, understanding, and compassion which polish you for your everylasting benefit.”

“He gave me the brochure. It was about the Hunters of Artemis. The front read, A WISE CHOICE FOR YOUR FUTURE! Inside were pictures of young maidens doing hunter stuff, chasing monsters, shooting bows. There were captions like: HEALTH BENEFITS: IMMORTALITY AND WHAT IT MEANS FOR YOU! and A BOY-FREE TOMORROW! "I found that in Annabeth's backpack," Grover said. I stared at him. "I don't understand." "Well, it seems to me… maybe Annabeth was thinking about joining." I'd like to say I took the news well. The truth was, I wanted to strangle the Hunters of Artemis one eternal maiden at a time.”

Source: The Titan's curse

“I've always found that one of the biggest benefits of being a girl is that most people refuse to take you seriously. While boys must be constantly monitored and are always the first suspects when anything goes wrong, everyone expects girls to do what they're told. It may seem a little insulting at first, but low expectations can be a blessing in disuise. If you're smart, you can use people's foolishness to your own advantage. It's amazing what you can get away with when no one bothers watching.”

Source: Kiki Strike: Inside the Shadow City

“War is just a racket. A racket is best described, I believe, as something that is not what it seems to the majority of people. Only a small inside group knows what it is about. It is conducted for the benefit of the very few at the expense of the masses.”

People Knows Believe War Seems I Believe Groups Benefits Mass Majority Expenses Antiwar Racket

Author:Smedley Butler

“It seems that most of us could benefit from a brush with a near-fatal disaster to help us recognise the important things that we are too defeated or embittered to recognise from day to day.”

Important Helping Seems Benefits Important Things Disaster Defeated Day To Day Brushes Recognise

Book:A Week at the Airport: A Heathrow Diary

Source: A Week at the Airport: A Heathrow Diary

“I don't view it as mystic. I believe that God is our father. He created us. He is powerful because he knows everything. Therefore everything I learn that is true makes me more like my father in heaven. When science seems to contradict religion, then one, the other, or both are wrong, or incomplete. Truth is not incompatible with itself. When I benefit from science it's actually not correct for me to say it resulted from science and not from God. They work in concert.”

Knows Believe Seems Father I Believe Heaven Views Powerful Truth Is Benefits Concerts Our Father Incomplete Mystic Father In Heaven

Author:Clayton Christensen

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