Ezra Taft Benson Quotes
No society will long survive without mothers who care for their young and provide that nurturing care so essential for their normal development.
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If a severe pandemic materializes, all of society could pay a heavy price for decades of failing to create a rational system of health care that works for all of us.
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I believe that communal admiration of individuals is healthy for society. It facilitates, in one way, the base of our universal standard, morals, but also publicly espouses the virtue of certain practices that are kind of like 'inherently good' in some kind of ideas of what the good is.
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The Holocaust changed our perception of morality not only because we discovered that morality is the only thing that can stand up to the ultimate evil, but also because it shifted the focus from society to the individual.
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The artist is the consciousness of society... but musicians' role is very special.
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I'm about to become a member of the Chemists Society of America. I'm very proud of that.
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Conservatives sometimes forget that limiting government is not an end in itself but a means to a better society.
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My next goal is for Shenzhen to become the model of environmentally-friendly and sustainable development.
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I think kids in every minority need to see people like themselves in books; that's an acknowledgment of their existence on this planet and in this society.
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I do not want to be a robot, a cog in society who answers 'yes' because 'yes' is considered the appropriate answer. Neither do I want to be a protestor. I just want to seek out what lies underneath the veils of politeness and programming that I've been given as a person in this society.
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My aim is to create a happy society with genuine friendship. Friendship between Tibetan and Chinese peoples is very essential.
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Like its politicians and its war, society has the teenagers it deserves.
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In a consumer society, people wallow in things, fascinating, enjoyable things. If you define your value by the things you acquire and surround yourself with, being excluded is humiliating.
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Infants have around 30,000 tastebuds, only about a third of which survive into adulthood, so a child's sensitivity towards extremes of sweet, sour and bitter flavours is heightened.
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We live in a technical society.
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Divorced from the cosmos, from nature, from society and from each other, we have become fractured and fragmented.
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A liberal education is at the heart of a civil society, and at the heart of a liberal education is the act of teaching.
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We are trying to remake Vietnamese society, a task which certainly cannot be accomplished by force and which probably cannot be accomplished by any means available to outsiders.
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I think the whole nerves thing comes into play when we worry about what other people and society will think.
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People have an awful lot of problems that society has put on them and a lot to work through because of it.
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One of the great ironies is that the impact of the flattening world has not been to empower decentralized rural land, but to strengthen the cities in China and India and elsewhere that are gateways between those countries and the West. It's deeply wise for the Chinese to be pro-urban in terms of development. They're creating space for ideas and human capital to be developed.
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I last went to a gym when I was a teenager to make sure I could lift ballerinas.
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They had 'The Godfather' theme, like 'I'm coming back to take the throne. This is mine and I'm taking it back.' They had their game faces on. The Quad was very precise. I thought they were creative.
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And no. I must not go on thinking. For the pain will never go away. You just go on and live. In the dust of desertion. Still falling where last I loved.
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No society will long survive without mothers who care for their young and provide that nurturing care so essential for their normal development.
