#ben

Leadership can not be measured in a poll or even in the result of an election. It can only be truly seen with the benefit of time. From the perspective of 20 years, not 20 days. ↗

— Marco Rubio

#days #election #even #leadership #measured

But here's what I would tell people of my generation. I turn 40 this year. There isn't going to be a Social Security. There isn't going to be a Medicare when you retire. Forget about what your benefit is going to look like. There isn't going to be one if we don't make some reforms to save that program now. ↗

— Marco Rubio

#benefit #forget #generation #going #here

I'm going to be working the next 25 or 30 years. People like me, if we want, number one, for no benefit reductions for our parents and our grandparents, number two, for the system to survive and exist for us, and, more importantly, number three, for the system to exist for us children, we are going to have to make reforms to that system. ↗

— Marco Rubio

#children #exist #going #grandparents #i

To be a writer is to embrace rejection as a way of life. ↗

— Dana Stabenow

#author #biographical-note #dana-stabenow #kate-shugak #liam-campbell

Within our culture, every school has a swimming pool. We lived on the coast. People swam in the surf. It's a very sporty nation and at that particular time anyone who had an artistic bent was very much an outsider. So if you liked reading or ideas or playing the piano then your dad viewed you as a sissy, basically. ↗

— Geoffrey Rush

#artistic #basically #bent #coast #culture

With the introduction of agriculture mankind entered upon a long period of meanness, misery, and madness, from which they are only now being freed by the beneficent operation of the machine. ↗

— Bertrand Russell

#being #beneficent #entered #freed #introduction

I have been benefited by praying for others; for by making an errand to God for them I have gotten something for myself. ↗

— Samuel Rutherford

#benefited #errand #god #gotten #i

The basic idea was that if a country would put its economy as an integrated piece of the world system, that it would benefit from that with economic growth. I concur with that basic view. ↗

— Jeffrey Sachs

#basic idea #benefit #concur #country #economic

We've taken the view that if the rest of the world would democratize and create market economies, that would spread the benefits of prosperity around the world, and that it would enhance our own prosperity, and our own stability and security, as well. ↗

— Jeffrey Sachs

#around #benefits #create #economies #enhance

The universe seems neither benign nor hostile, merely indifferent. ↗

— Carl Sagan

#hostile #indifferent #merely #neither #nor