How do you know if the next act you are about to do is the right one or the wrong one? Consider the face of the poorest and most vulnerable human being that you have ever chanced upon, and ask yourself if the act that you contemplate will be of benefit to that person; and if it will be, it's the right thing to do, and if not, rethink it.
Severities should be dealt out all at once, so that their suddenness may give less offense; benefits ought to be handed ought drop by drop, so that they may be relished the more.
But some one will say that this supreme Being, who made all things, and those also who conferred on men particular benefits, are entitled to their respective worship.
But then, I suppose, when with the benefit of hindsight one begins to search one's past for such 'turning points', one is apt to start seeing them everywhere.
Virtues, of. . . Justice: Wrong none by doing injuries or omitting the benefits that are your duty.
We know the costs of Europe. What are the benefits?
Americans cannot maintain their essential faith in government if there are two Americas, in which the private sector's work subsidizes the disproportionate benefits of this new public sector elite.
There is no teaching until the pupil is brought into the same state or principle in which you are; a transfusion takes place; he is you, and you are he; then is a teaching; and by no unfriendly chance or bad company can he ever lose the benefit.
If we do not resolve the euro crisis, we will all pay the price. And if we do resolve it, we will all benefit, particularly German taxpayers and savers.
Our devotional life with God is more like the planting of a garden. When we arise from sowing into the secret place, we will not usually be able to point to immediate results or benefits. What we sow today will require an entire season of growth before the results are manifest.
Data by itself is not useful. Data is only useful if it can be applied for public benefit.
You might say that I was the first and caused others to awaken to the sense of their duty in helping deserving causes for the benefit of the race.
Our mission in this new century is clear. For good or ill, we live in an interdependent world. We can't escape each other. Therefore, we have to spend our lives building a global community of shared responsibilities, shared values, shared benefits.
The President is going to benefit from me reporting directly to him when I arrive.
In developing our industrial strategy for the period ahead, we have the benefit of much experience. Almost everything has been tried at least once
Only a peace between equals can last. Only a peace the very principle of which is equality and a common participation in a common benefit.
There is so much more knowledge than most people realize about how to maximize the benefits of play and minimize the potential harms.
Non-Western immigrants, often Muslims, are over-represented in statistics of crime, of dependency on social benefits, that we have honour killings, that we have genital mutilation, that we have streets where women with headscarves and burqas are not the exception any more. And that it's getting worse.
Help another and you will be the one who benefits most
Contrology is not a fatiguing system of dull, boring, abhorred exercises repeated daily "ad-nauseam. " Neither does it demand you joining a gymnasium nor the purchasing of expensive apparatus. You may derive all the benefits of Contrology in your own home.