#benefit

If I were asked to name the chief benefit of the house, I should say: the house shelters day-dreaming, the house protects the dreamer, the house allows one to dream in peace. ↗

— Gaston Bachelard

#allows #asked #benefit #chief #dream

Since 1935, this has been a pay-as-you-go system, and I always believed when I first started talking about Social Security that there was a little box that had my name on it and it had my benefits for when I retired. That is not true. ↗

— Judy Biggert

#always #been #believed #benefits #box

There's a reason why every human society has fiction. It teaches us how to be 'good,' to behave in a way that is for the benefit of the whole community. ↗

— Orson Scott Card

#benefit #community #every #fiction #good

We've got gays working there. If they can demonstrate long-term relationships, we make same-sex benefits available just as we do with common-law marriages. Gays are productive people. Some fly airplanes, some work in breweries. ↗

— Pete Coors

#benefits #breweries #demonstrate #fly #gays

Is it right to probe so deeply into Nature's secrets? The question must here be raised whether it will benefit mankind, or whether the knowledge will be harmful. ↗

— Pierre Curie

#deeply #harmful #here #into #knowledge

There are people that really live by doing the right thing, but I don't know what that is, I'm really curious about that. I'm really curious about what people think they're doing when they're doing something evil, casually. I think it's really interesting, that we benefit from suffering so much, and we excuse ourselves from it. ↗

— Louis C. K.

#benefit #casually #curious #doing #doing the right thing

There is no question of the benefits that opening a market of a billion people will bring to American businesses. But as I said last year, this will test China and the world trade system. ↗

— William M. Daley

#american businesses #benefits #billion #bring #businesses

Write your injuries in dust, your benefits in marble. ↗

— Benjamin Franklin

#dust #injuries #marble #write #your

This is one of the benefits, as well as one of the difficulties of directing a member of your family. You know where the buttons are. You can push them if you want. ↗

— Emilio Estevez

#buttons #difficulties #directing #family #know

Without significant reform, the Social Security Administration will be legally and financially unable to pay full promised benefits within a generation. ↗

— Ron Lewis

#benefits #financially #full #generation #legally