“Good coffee is a benefit, but great coffee is a reward, and the difference between good and great is just pennies a day.” DifferencesBenefitsRewardsCoffeePenniesGreat CoffeeGood Coffee Author:Richard Wyckoff
“I do think that there is a big difference between family farms and agri-business, and one of the distressing things that I think has occurred is with consolidation of farm lands. You've seen large agri-businesses benefit from enormous profits from existing farm programs, and I think we should be focusing most of those programs on those family farmers.” ThinkingShouldBigsDifferencesLandBenefitsProgramProfitEnormousFarmsFarmersAgricultureDistressingConsolidationFamily Farms Author:Barack Obama
“Nature hath made men so equal in the faculties of body and mind, as that though there be found one man sometimes manifestly stronger in body, or of quicker mind than another, yet when all is reckoned together, the difference between man and man is not so considerable as that one man can thereupon claim to himself any benefit to which another may not pretend as well as he.” MenMindWellsMayMadeSometimesBodyTogetherFoundDifferencesEqualBenefitsClaimsStrongerFacultyOne ManMind And BodyLeviathan Book:Leviathan Source: Leviathan
“We need government and business to work together for the benefit of everyone. It should no longer be just about typical "corporate social responsibility" where the "responsibility" bit is usually the realm of a small team buried in a basement office - now it should be about every single person in a business taking responsibility to make a difference in everything they do, at work and in their personal lives.” NeedsShouldPersonsGovernmentTogetherSocialBitsDifferencesResponsibilityTeamOfficeBenefitsCorporateRealmsMaking A DifferenceWorking TogetherBuriedTypicalPersonal LifeSocial ResponsibilityTaking ResponsibilityBasementsSingle PersonCorporate Social ResponsibilityGovernment And Business Author:Richard Branson
“What need is there to say more? The childish work for their own benefit, The Buddhas work for the benefit of others. Just look at the difference between them.” NeedsLooksDifferencesBenefitsBodhicitta Author:Shantideva
“I find it remarkable that virtually all of the large difference in labor supply between France and the United States is due to differences in tax systems. I expected institutional constraints on the operation of labor markets and the nature of the unemployment benefit system to be more important. I was surprised that the welfare gain from reducing the intratemporal tax wedge is so large.” ImportantStatesDifferencesUnitedUnited StatesTaxesBenefitsGainsEconomicsLaborDuesExpectedFranceOperationsWelfareRemarkableUnemploymentReducingConstraintsWedgesTax SystemUnemployment Benefits Author:Edward C. Prescott
“What is any respectable girl brought up to do but to catch some rich man's fancy and get the benefit of his money by marrying him?--as if a marriage ceremony could make any difference in the right or wrong of the thing!” IfsMenGirlSexDifferencesMarriageRichBenefitsFancyCeremonyRespectableRich ManMarryingMarriage CeremonyMarrying Him Book:Mrs. Warren's Profession Source: Mrs. Warren's Profession
“The difference between the Japanese and the American is summed up in their opposite reactions to the proverb (popular in both nations), "A rolling stone gathers no moss." Epidemiologist S. Leonard Syme observes that to the Japanese, moss is exquisite and valued; a stone is enhanced by moss; hence a person who keeps moving and changing never acquires the beauty and benefits of stability. To Americans, the proverb is an admonition to keep rolling, to keep from being covered with clinging attachments.” PersonsMovingNationsDifferencesBenefitsStonesOppositesReactionsAcquireAttachmentCoveredStabilityRollingKeep MovingExquisiteClingingRolling StonesMossAdmonition Author:Carol Tavris
“Chief Justice Roberts has expressly said that the Constitution and the government should be colorblind, he sees no difference between government action that discriminates against minorities and one that benefits minorities.” ShouldSaidGovernmentActionDifferencesJusticeBenefitsConstitutionChiefsMinoritiesChief Justice Author:Erwin Chemerinsky