Ezra Taft Benson Quotes

Retirement from work has depressed many a man and hastened his death.

Ezra Taft Benson

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• A complainer is like a Death Eater because there's a suction of negative energy. You can catch a great attitude from great people.

  

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• Have an earnestness for death and you will have life.

  

  Abu Bakr
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• Is life so dear or peace so sweet as to be purchased at the price of chains and slavery? Forbid it, Almighty God! I know not what course others may take, but as for me, give me liberty, or give me death!

  

  Patrick Henry
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• I think that God prepared me for Chris's death in some ways, because I've seen other people lose their spouses. I've known for a long time that life isn't fair.

  

  Taya Kyle
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• Life is pleasant. Death is peaceful. It's the transition that's troublesome.

  

  Isaac Asimov
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• Live your life that the fear of death can never enter your heart.

  

  Tecumseh
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• Love and death are the two great hinges on which all human sympathies turn.

  

  B. R. Hayden
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• As an Egyptian, I was always frustrated, just like many young Egyptians, of the situation in the country. And to a large extent, we didn't know what could we do. And looking at Khaled's photo after his death; basically I just felt that we are all Khaled Said.

  

  Wael Ghonim
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• The very first thing you learn if you're a gentleman is that you never compare one woman to another. That's the way of all death.

  

  Patrick Macnee
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• Being an old maid is like death by drowning, a really delightful sensation after you cease to struggle.

  

  Edna Ferber
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• If Britain is to have a stable, affordable pension system, people need to work longer, but we will reward their hard work with a decent state pension that will enable them to enjoy quality of life in their retirement.

  

  Iain Duncan Smith
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• And Darkness and Decay and the Red Death held illimitable dominion over all.

  

  Edgar Allan Poe
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• Well, life was tough, but at least I was able to live it out and I was able to face death and not be afraid. Well, now I'm ready to go to Heaven and be with Jesus, and...hey? Hey, what's this? Oh, God it feels like a man's DICK IN MY ASS! Oh, GOD!!! I'M DEAD!!! Oh, you mean life keeps on fucking you even after you're dead? Oh, it never ends! OH! OHHH!!!

  

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• Madness rides the star-wind... claws and teeth sharpened on centuries of corpses... dripping death astride a bacchanale of bats from nigh-black ruins of buried temples of Belial...

  

  H. P. Lovecraft
  • Death
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• I am bewildered by the death of love. And my responsibility for it.

  

  Arthur Miller
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• We reach vague-gesturing hands, we lift our heads,Hear sounds far off,-and dream, with quivering breath,Our curious separate ways through life and death.

  

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• Joan Didion's 'The Year of Magical Thinking' comes to mind as an example of a piece of media that I really respect and would hope to emulate: just her courage in looking at her husband's death and the attentiveness that she has in how she looks at it, and the unflinching gaze that she communicates from looking into death.

  

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• I've been totally replaced by people who are superior. I was doing, like, 15 different things. It's very gratifying to watch your job done better.

  

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• We think that Hillary [Clinton] will be a symbol and a reality for the women of the world, and it's very important because so many - so many underdeveloped countries, not the least of which is Afghanistan, the women of the world need help, and she understands those issues and is a lightning rod for them.

  

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• Retirement from work has depressed many a man and hastened his death.

  

  Ezra Taft Benson
  • Death
  • Retirement
  • Depressed