Ezra Taft Benson Quotes
I believe that God has endowed men with certain inalienable rights as set forth in the Declaration of Independence and that no legislature and no majority, however great, may morally limit or destroy these; that the sole function of government is to protect life, liberty, and property, and anything more than this is usurpation and oppression.
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I remember the moon landings, and Apollo was the paradigm by which all progress was measured at that time. And I knew that creating a true space-faring civilization was both possible and practical. What I failed to realize was that the effort would fail due to bureaucratic inertia and political apathy.
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Chess only appeals to quite a small minority. It does not have the cachet of a mainstream popular sport.
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Everybody ought to have a lower East Side in their life.
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It's hard for people sometimes to relate to me. They weren't in the military, they weren't injured overseas in Iraq, they weren't burned, they didn't go through 33 surgeries, or two and a half years in the hospital.
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Some of the areas in China have been under very grave water scarcity: for example, the north China plain; they are facing a very serious water shortage. Per capita levels have dropped to very serious levels, including in Beijing.
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Red Carpet has a nice package abstraction layer that allows us to support RPMs and DEBs transparently.
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Do the difficult things while they are easy and do the great things while they are small. A journey of a thousand miles must begin with a single step.
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Every government says they love small businesses, but what have they done for them? We should pull down all the barriers.
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You measure a democracy by the freedom it gives its dissidents, not the freedom it gives its assimilated conformists.
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There is nothing evil save that which perverts the mind and shackles the conscience.
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I was going to college to be a doctor.
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We have been fortunate enough to do something that has always been out of the mainstream and yet have an audience for what we do.
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Fashion definitely has the power to change the world.
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She waits for me; my lady Earth, Smiles and waits and sighs;I'll say her nay, and hide away, Then take her by surprise.
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I don’t like animals. It’s a strange thing, I don’t like men and I don’t like animals. As for God, he is beginning to disgust me.
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I got to get your presence Let's make it known I think you're just so pleasant I would like you for my own
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We used to think that if we knew one, we knew two, because one and one are two. We are finding that we must learn a great deal more about 'and'.
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A people divided over the right to vote can never build a Nation united.
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Filming takes a lot out of you. It really does. It's immensely demanding, and you have to put the rest of your life in the icebox until you do your final shot.
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I would say that no film is apolitical. There are politics in all films. Any film that is anchored in a society, any film that deals with humanity is necessarily political.
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To talk about planning an economic system is to talk in old terms, and I find myself sometimes having to teach Westers about what the market really means.
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I have always had great respect for former president Mandela. The personal sacrifices he made in order to achieve what was right for the people of South Africa is something I carry with me every day.
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Happiness comes from the full understanding of your own being.
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I believe that God has endowed men with certain inalienable rights as set forth in the Declaration of Independence and that no legislature and no majority, however great, may morally limit or destroy these; that the sole function of government is to protect life, liberty, and property, and anything more than this is usurpation and oppression.
