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To feel much for others and little for ourselves; to restrain our selfishness and exercise our benevolent affections, constitute the perfection of human nature.

~Adam Smith

Topics: Affections Benevolent Constitute Exercise Feel Human Human Nature Little Much Nature Others Our Ourselves Perfection Restrain Selfishness

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With a few notable exceptions, literary fiction in the U.K. is dominated by an upper and upper middle-class clique who usually have a tin ear for the demotic and who portray working-class characters with, at best, a benevolent condescension.

~Adrian Mckinty

Topics: Benevolent Best Characters Clique Dominated Ear Exceptions Few Fiction Literary Literary Fiction Middle-Class Notable Portray Tin Upper Who Working-Class

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I am a misanthrope and yet utterly benevolent, have more than one screw loose yet am a super-idealist who digests philosophy more efficiently than food.

~Alfred Nobel

Topics: Am Benevolent Digest Efficiently Food Loose More Philosophy Screw Than Utterly Who I Am

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Is it possible to run a big industrial corporation in a benevolent fashion? We see these days that even the hippest companies hide some rotten practices to make their profit margins work.

~Ann Nocenti

Topics: Benevolent Big Companies Corporation Days Even Fashion Hide Industrial Make Margins Possible Practices Profit Rotten Run See Some Work

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It is clearly better that property should be private, but the use of it common; and the special business of the legislator is to create in men this benevolent disposition.

~Aristotle

Topics: Benevolent Better Business Clearly Common Create Disposition Legislator Men Private Property Should Special Use

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I'm not questioning the monotheistic god. I think there's absolutely no evidence for the existence of such a god. When I say that, I mean I'm - part of that is that the idea that God could be all-powerful and also benevolent is on its face contradictory.

~Barbara Ehrenreich

Topics: Absolutely All-Powerful Also Benevolent Contradictory Could Evidence Existence Face God Idea Mean Part Questioning Say Think I Think

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I've decided the secret of parenting is benevolent neglect.

~Barry Humphries

Topics: Benevolent Decided Neglect Parenting Secret The Secret Of

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It is in fact agreed that I am the plague, the cholera of the benevolent and generous men who are interested in art and that, when I show myself with my plasters, even the Emperor of the Sahara would flee.

~Camille Claudel

Topics: Agreed Am Art Benevolent Cholera Emperor Even Fact Flee Generous In Fact Interested Men Myself Plague Plaster Show Who Would I Am

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The truth is, it's a totalitarian dictatorship when you're making films. You are the boss. You can listen to other people, and it can be a benevolent dictatorship, but it's a dictatorship nonetheless. A lot of directors go past their first experience, that's what they've come away with.

~Chiwetel Ejiofor

Topics: Away Benevolent Boss Come Dictatorship Directors Experience Films First Go Listen Lot Making Nonetheless Other Past People Totalitarian Truth Truth Is You

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Being made to feel like an irrelevant child was probably an asset. Benign negligence is not a bad parental attitude or at least a cross between a benevolent dictator and benign negligence - you should just let kids crack on with it.

~Clare Balding

Topics: Asset Attitude Bad Being Benevolent Benign Between Child Crack Cross Dictator Feel Irrelevant Just Kids Least Like Made Negligence Parental Should You

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