Since the goal of my programs is to show audiences how humor can both help them heal as well as deal with not-so-funny stuff I decided to discuss the events of the previous week the pain all of us were feeling and how humor and some laughter might be beneficial.

I should do something about the cigarettes I quite accept that it's bad for your health but you know a moderate tipple is positively beneficial and at certain times absolutely essential.

Rising health care spending occurs because it is beneficial not a burden on the economy.

Happiness is beneficial for the body but it is grief that develops the powers of the mind.

Freedom granted only when it is known beforehand that its effects will be beneficial is not freedom.

The facility of obtaining food is beneficial in two ways to the owners of capital it at the same time raises profits and increases the amount of consumable commodities.

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.

I think an education is beneficial but whether it takes an education to be successful in the arts is a whole other question.

For the sake of argument and illustration I will presume that certain articles of ordinary diet however beneficial in youth are prejudicial in advanced life like beans to a horse whose common ordinary food is hay and corn.

The accumulation of skill and science which has been directed to diminish the difficulty of producing manufactured goods has not been beneficial to that country alone in which it is concentrated distant kingdoms have participated in its advantages.