Ezra Taft Benson Quotes
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Homeland or death! Socialism or death! We shall overcome!
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With the death of bin Laden, it's finally time for Congress to bring back the pre-9-11 legal norm, before we decided it was okay to toss out our civil liberties if the 'bad guys' were scary enough.
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It was the labor movement that helped secure so much of what we take for granted today. The 40-hour work week, the minimum wage, family leave, health insurance, Social Security, Medicare, retirement plans. The cornerstones of the middle-class security all bear the union label.
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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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I'm not afraid of death. What's to fear? Once you're dead, that's it. Nothing. I don't believe in heaven or hell. That's baloney. What matters is the here and now. Yes, I'm 88, and there are things I can't do: I can't run a race or climb Everest. But isn't life magnificent?
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Have an earnestness for death and you will have life.
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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!
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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.
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Life is pleasant. Death is peaceful. It's the transition that's troublesome.
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Live your life that the fear of death can never enter your heart.
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Love and death are the two great hinges on which all human sympathies turn.
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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.
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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.
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Being an old maid is like death by drowning, a really delightful sensation after you cease to struggle.
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We hear tears loudly on this side of Heaven. What we don't take time to contemplate are the even louder cheers on the other side of death's valley.
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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.
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Tradition demands that we not speak poorly of the dead.
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And Darkness and Decay and the Red Death held illimitable dominion over all.
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Death just shouldn't be a taxable event.
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In the whole world there is no study so beneficial and so elevating as that of the Upanishads. It has been the solace of my life, it will be the solace of my death.
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The proud make every man their adversary by pitting their intellects, opinions, works, wealth, talents, or any other worldly measuring device against others.
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Women are nothing but machines for producing children.
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I believe you have to make things happen.
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Retirement from work has depressed many a man and hastened his death.
