#benefit

We had a large common domain, already added by the several States for the common benefit of all; purchase and war might make large additions to this common domain; hence the power over existing and future territories, with the stipulation to admit new States, was conferred. ↗

— Robert Toombs

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Michael Sunday and I are the original members of the band. We first did it just for charities and benefit concerts. It was very ad-hoc, and before we knew it, we were really a band. We went through several drummers and guitarists before we were happy with the line up. ↗

— Peter Tork

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When people begin anticipating inflation, it doesn't do you any good anymore, because any benefit of inflation comes from the fact that you do better than you thought you were going to do. ↗

— Paul A. Volcker

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The art of government is to make two-thirds of a nation pay all it possibly can pay for the benefit of the other third. ↗

— Voltaire

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Our soldiers and their families are benefiting. They deserve good, quality housing and they need it. ↗

— Jim Walsh

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An ambassador is an honest man sent abroad to lie and intrigue for the benefit of his country. ↗

— Henry Wotton

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6.6 million people will benefit from a rise in the minimum wage. ↗

— Russ Carnahan

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Often they benefit who suffer wrong. ↗

— Ovid

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There is also this benefit in brag, that the speaker is unconsciously expressing his own ideal. Humor him by all means, draw it all out, and hold him to it. ↗

— Miguel de Cervantes

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It's critical - that the people that are benefiting today from Medicare and Social Security that they not see benefit reductions. It's awfully hard to tell someone who might be 82, that they've gotta go back to work, because their benefits are gonna be chopped. That's not gonna happen. ↗

— Fred Upton

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