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I am to provide the public with beneficial shocks.
Alfred Hitchcock
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Alfred Hitchcock
English
Director
Born:
Aug 13
,
1899
Died:
Apr 29
,
1980
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One of the most beneficial things I've ever learned is how to keep my mouth shut.
Eric Clapton
Mouth
Beneficial
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Learned
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Things
Shut
There is no development strategy more beneficial to society as a whole - women and men alike - than the one which involves women as central players.
Kofi Annan
Women
Men
Strategy
Society
Beneficial
Alike
More
Development
Involves
Women And Men
Than
Which
Central
Whole
Players
Jogging is very beneficial. It's good for your legs and your feet. It's also very good for the ground. If makes it feel needed.
Charles M. Schulz
Fitness
Good
Beneficial
Jogging
Feel
Feet
Also
Makes
Very
Legs
Your
Ground
Needed
A pattern is a guide or a model. Patterns are used in sewing and knitting, in wood and metalworking, and in a wide variety of other productive pursuits, activities, and jobs. Patterns help to avoid waste and unwanted deviations and facilitate uniformity that is appropriate and beneficial.
David A. Bednar
Unwanted
Other
Beneficial
Appropriate
Guide
Sewing
Jobs
Variety
Facilitate
Pursuits
Knitting
Model
Wood
Pattern
Patterns
Uniformity
Used
Productive
Avoid
Help
Activities
Waste
Wide
Wide Variety
Freedom granted only when it is known beforehand that its effects will be beneficial is not freedom.
Friedrich August von Hayek
Freedom
Will
Beneficial
Only
Known
Beforehand
Effects
Granted
The law is an adroit mixture of customs that are beneficial to society, and could be followed even if no law existed, and others that are of advantage to a ruling minority, but harmful to the masses of men, and can be enforced on them only by terror.
Peter Kropotkin
Law
Minority
Men
Society
Harmful
Others
Beneficial
Ruling
Followed
No Law
Only
Could
Advantage
Masses
Terror
Existed
Mixture
Them
Customs
Enforced
Even
Solidarity and interdependence, a sense of worth, a pride and hope in the future: these are positive gains for those who believe in progressive politics and the beneficial role of government, rather than a detriment.
David Blunkett
Positive
Politics
Hope
Future
Government
Worth
Pride
Sense
Believe
Progressive
Beneficial
Those
Solidarity
Rather
Detriment
Than
Role
Interdependence
Gains
Who
I shall endeavour still further to prosecute this inquiry, an inquiry I trust not merely speculative, but of sufficient moment to inspire the pleasing hope of its becoming essentially beneficial to mankind.
Edward Jenner
Hope
Trust
Inspire
Beneficial
Pleasing
Further
Inquiry
Shall
Merely
Becoming
Still
Endeavour
Essentially
Mankind
Moment
Sufficient
Speculative
Now here is a departure from the first principle of true ethics. Here we find ideas of moral wrong and moral right associated with something else than beneficial action. The consequent is, we lose sight of the real basis of morals, and substitute a false one.
Frances Wright
Ethics
First
Lose
Action
Else
Beneficial
Sight
Moral
Find
Morals
Something
Something Else
Wrong
True
Ideas
Principle
Real
False
Than
Departure
Substitute
Now
Right
Here
Basis
Associated
Consequent
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