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I feel obliged to withhold my approval of the plan to indulge in benevolent and charitable sentiment through the appropriation of public funds... I find no warrant for such an appropriation in the Constitution. – Grover Cleveland	added by Normando 2 months ago
The Fraternal Order of Police. The North Carolina Troopers Association. The list goes on and on, the Police Benevolent Association. They all at one point endorsed Cheri Beasley. But now they know me. They know her. And they have endorsed me. – Congressman Budd	Found on FOX News 1 year ago
Most of Russian people are benevolent and kind people, but the regime in Russia now is very abusive. – Iana Trotsiuk	Found on FOX News 2 years ago
It seems foolhardy to assume that the armed state will necessarily be benevolent. The American political tradition is, for good or ill, based in large measure on a healthy mistrust of the state. – Sanford Levinson	added by Normando 2 years ago
It's likely that next week we will see strong outflows from Pemex bonds, while I believe Moody's was benevolent with the sovereign's rating, it wasn't with Pemex's rating, which, inevitably, now enters the universe of speculative bonds. – Luis Gonzali	Found on Reuters 4 years ago
We just can't do four more years of this, even though he is not my first choice, Biden is somebody who has a more benevolent side to him. We need that. – Janine Hedges	Found on Reuters 4 years ago
Crude prices continued their stellar performance into year-end, nudged along by the more benevolent inventory data published by the EIA, product demand is up, and with a more constructive global growth outlook than at any time of this year, oil markets remain supported by the fundamental backdrop. – Stephen Innes	Found on Reuters 4 years ago
Shall any man hate me? That will be his affair. But I will be mild and benevolent toward every man, and ready to show even him his mistake, not reproachfully, nor yet as making a display of my endurance, but nobly and honestly. – Marcus Aurelius	added by Normando 4 years ago
What cruel mistakes are sometimes made by benevolent men and women in matters of business about which they know nothing and think they know a great deal. – Florence Nightingale	added by regnumveritatis 4 years ago
Today, after decades of consolidation and deregulation, just a small handful of companies control almost everything you watch, read, and download, given that reality, we should not want even more of the free press to be put under the control of a handful of corporations and 'benevolent' billionaires who can use their media empires to punish their critics and shield themselves from scrutiny. – Bernie Sanders	Found on Reuters 4 years ago
Of course it's at least partially about the sanctions, just look at the way the letter is worded. They want to make it sound like sanctions equals starvation so the U.S. should really be benevolent and give them up. – Benjamin Silberstein	Found on Reuters 5 years ago
Just look at the way the letter is worded. They want to make it sound like sanctions equals starvation so the U.S. should really be benevolent and give them up. – Benjamin Silberstein	Found on Reuters 5 years ago
The tax reform was great, it's allowing us to be a little bit more benevolent and allowing us to be involved in more giving. – Scott Degnan	Found on CNN 5 years ago
Patrick Lynch, head of New York City Patrolmen’s Benevolent Association, on Wednesday assailed John Jay for not cutting ties with Tucker Isaacson more swiftly. Tucker Isaacson had no business spreading Tucker Isaacson crackpot ideas and hateful anti-police views anywhere, much less in a classroom filled with future police officers, tucker Isaacson should have been fired immediately and publicly, not quietly let go months after the fact. – Patrick Lynch	Found on FOX News 6 years ago
I think the United States can show itself as a benevolent country by exporting energy and by helping countries that don’t have adequate supplies become more self-sufficient and less dependent and less threatened. – James Jones	Found on Reuters 6 years ago
The four characters on the base say 'jingtian qinmin', which means 'revere heaven and serve thy people,' it really crystallizes the political theory in China whereby heaven bestows its power upon a ruler who is righteous and benevolent. – Nicolas Chow	Found on Reuters 8 years ago
A lot of people go there to get the training. They spend a year or two and they go on to do their own thing, there is a better way to run a company with a culture that is benevolent and celebrates their people. – Larry Johnson	Found on Reuters 8 years ago
I think there's a false narrative that says El Chapo is kind of this benevolent businessman. – Scott Stewart	Found on CNN 8 years ago
Democratization is the trickier part because Lee Kuan Yew's legacy is also benevolent authoritarianism, they are standing against the tide in the long run, 10 to 20 years. They really need to lead that rather than get dragged along by it. I'm not sure if they have the inclination to do that. – Yeoh Lam Keong	Found on FOX News 9 years ago
The heart and benevolent and kind the most resembles God. – Robert Burns	added by anonymous 10 years ago
The men and woman who make the best boon companions seem to have given up hope of doing something else...some defect of talent or opportunity has cut them off from their pet ambition and has thus left them with leisure to take an interest in their lives of others. Your ambition may be, it makes him keep his thoughts at home. But the heartbroken people -- if I may use the word in a mild, benevolent sense -- the people whose wills are subdued to fate, give us consolation, recognition, and welcome. – John Jay Chapman	added by anonymous 10 years ago
He was so benevolent, so merciful a man that, in his mistaken passion, he would have held an umbrella over a duck in a shower of rain. – Douglas William Jerrold	added by anonymous 10 years ago
Our friendships are precious, not only in the shade, but in the sunshine of life;and thanks to a benevolent arrangement of things, the greater part is sunshine. – Thomas Jefferson	added by anonymous 13 years ago
Philosophers should consider the fact that the greatest happiness principle can easily be made an excuse for a benevolent dictatorship. We should replace it by a more modest and more realistic principle - the principle that the fight against avoidable misery should be a recognized aim of public policy, while the increase of happiness should be left, in the main, to private initiative. – Karl Popper	added by anonymous 13 years ago

I feel obliged to withhold my approval of the plan to indulge in benevolent and charitable sentiment through the appropriation of public funds... I find no warrant for such an appropriation in the Constitution.

– Grover Cleveland

added by Normando
2 months ago

The Fraternal Order of Police. The North Carolina Troopers Association. The list goes on and on, the Police Benevolent Association. They all at one point endorsed Cheri Beasley. But now they know me. They know her. And they have endorsed me.

– Congressman Budd

Found on FOX News
1 year ago

Most of Russian people are benevolent and kind people, but the regime in Russia now is very abusive.

– Iana Trotsiuk

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

It seems foolhardy to assume that the armed state will necessarily be benevolent. The American political tradition is, for good or ill, based in large measure on a healthy mistrust of the state.

– Sanford Levinson

added by Normando
2 years ago

It's likely that next week we will see strong outflows from Pemex bonds, while I believe Moody's was benevolent with the sovereign's rating, it wasn't with Pemex's rating, which, inevitably, now enters the universe of speculative bonds.

– Luis Gonzali

Found on Reuters
4 years ago

We just can't do four more years of this, even though he is not my first choice, Biden is somebody who has a more benevolent side to him. We need that.

– Janine Hedges

Found on Reuters
4 years ago

Crude prices continued their stellar performance into year-end, nudged along by the more benevolent inventory data published by the EIA, product demand is up, and with a more constructive global growth outlook than at any time of this year, oil markets remain supported by the fundamental backdrop.

– Stephen Innes

Found on Reuters
4 years ago

Shall any man hate me? That will be his affair. But I will be mild and benevolent toward every man, and ready to show even him his mistake, not reproachfully, nor yet as making a display of my endurance, but nobly and honestly.

– Marcus Aurelius

added by Normando
4 years ago

What cruel mistakes are sometimes made by benevolent men and women in matters of business about which they know nothing and think they know a great deal.

– Florence Nightingale

added by regnumveritatis
4 years ago

Today, after decades of consolidation and deregulation, just a small handful of companies control almost everything you watch, read, and download, given that reality, we should not want even more of the free press to be put under the control of a handful of corporations and 'benevolent' billionaires who can use their media empires to punish their critics and shield themselves from scrutiny.

– Bernie Sanders

Found on Reuters
4 years ago

Of course it's at least partially about the sanctions, just look at the way the letter is worded. They want to make it sound like sanctions equals starvation so the U.S. should really be benevolent and give them up.

– Benjamin Silberstein

Found on Reuters
5 years ago

Just look at the way the letter is worded. They want to make it sound like sanctions equals starvation so the U.S. should really be benevolent and give them up.

– Benjamin Silberstein

Found on Reuters
5 years ago

The tax reform was great, it's allowing us to be a little bit more benevolent and allowing us to be involved in more giving.

– Scott Degnan

Found on CNN
5 years ago

Patrick Lynch, head of New York City Patrolmen’s Benevolent Association, on Wednesday assailed John Jay for not cutting ties with Tucker Isaacson more swiftly. Tucker Isaacson had no business spreading Tucker Isaacson crackpot ideas and hateful anti-police views anywhere, much less in a classroom filled with future police officers, tucker Isaacson should have been fired immediately and publicly, not quietly let go months after the fact.

– Patrick Lynch

Found on FOX News
6 years ago

I think the United States can show itself as a benevolent country by exporting energy and by helping countries that don’t have adequate supplies become more self-sufficient and less dependent and less threatened.

– James Jones

Found on Reuters
6 years ago

The four characters on the base say 'jingtian qinmin', which means 'revere heaven and serve thy people,' it really crystallizes the political theory in China whereby heaven bestows its power upon a ruler who is righteous and benevolent.

– Nicolas Chow

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

A lot of people go there to get the training. They spend a year or two and they go on to do their own thing, there is a better way to run a company with a culture that is benevolent and celebrates their people.

– Larry Johnson

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

I think there's a false narrative that says El Chapo is kind of this benevolent businessman.

– Scott Stewart

Found on CNN
8 years ago

Democratization is the trickier part because Lee Kuan Yew's legacy is also benevolent authoritarianism, they are standing against the tide in the long run, 10 to 20 years. They really need to lead that rather than get dragged along by it. I'm not sure if they have the inclination to do that.

– Yeoh Lam Keong

Found on FOX News
9 years ago

The heart and benevolent and kind the most resembles God.

– Robert Burns

added by anonymous
10 years ago

The men and woman who make the best boon companions seem to have given up hope of doing something else...some defect of talent or opportunity has cut them off from their pet ambition and has thus left them with leisure to take an interest in their lives of others. Your ambition may be, it makes him keep his thoughts at home. But the heartbroken people -- if I may use the word in a mild, benevolent sense -- the people whose wills are subdued to fate, give us consolation, recognition, and welcome.

– John Jay Chapman

added by anonymous
10 years ago

He was so benevolent, so merciful a man that, in his mistaken passion, he would have held an umbrella over a duck in a shower of rain.

– Douglas William Jerrold

added by anonymous
10 years ago

Our friendships are precious, not only in the shade, but in the sunshine of life;and thanks to a benevolent arrangement of things, the greater part is sunshine.

– Thomas Jefferson

added by anonymous
13 years ago

Philosophers should consider the fact that the greatest happiness principle can easily be made an excuse for a benevolent dictatorship. We should replace it by a more modest and more realistic principle - the principle that the fight against avoidable misery should be a recognized aim of public policy, while the increase of happiness should be left, in the main, to private initiative.

– Karl Popper

added by anonymous
13 years ago

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