Ezra Taft Benson Quotes
The Lord is pleased with every effort, even the tiny, daily ones in which we strive to be more like Him.
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Practical wisdom is what's called for in situations that have a moral dimension to them.
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People don't believe in me very much, but I have my teammates and my family that believe in me so much; they see how hard I work.
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It's every boy's dream to play a superhero.
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In my opinion, if you only show quality but no fighting spirit, you are half a player.
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A trip to the mainland was a big event and happened maybe once a year, although now you can get across in a speed boat in seven minutes but then it was a long way away.
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The existence of an area of free land, its continuous recession, and the advance of American settlement, explain American development.
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A lot of my songs are about loneliness and losing relationships. Even the ones that are happy, there's a lonely undertone to them.
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I haven't got purity, and I don't think I ever did. I have always been, even as a child, a very decadent little person.
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I've had to walk through a lot of my tears.
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We have a toxic ideology, hopefully very small, within Islam; certainly most people, most Muslims, don't agree with this violent, jihadist approach.
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I had fallen in love with photography and was making a living doing photographic features for publications such as 'Picture Post,' 'Paris Match' and 'Life' magazine. But in 1939, I saw a huge headline, which I think was in the 'Sunday Express.' It said, 'Danzig - Danger Point of Europe.' I packed up my Leica, got on a train, and went.
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There's something very misleading about the literary culture that looks at writers in their 30s and calls them 'budding' or 'promising', when in fact they're peaking.
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On thee, Jesus, all our hopes depend. In thee all power is vested, even power to make sinful creatures instrumental in enlightening the heathen.
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My fears are agitated to an extreme degree and the dread of death involves me in a stupor of chilling indisposition.
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We have since defined Gaia as a complex entity involving the Earth's biosphere, atmosphere, oceans, and soil; the totality constituting a feedback or cybernetic system which seeks an optimal physical and chemical environment for life on this planet.
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You're an asshole! You're an asshole! That's right! You're an asshole! You're an asshole! Yes yes!
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The more exposure people have to the realities of factory farming, the more we will see people rejecting it. It's already happening.
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The type of girls that would sleep with you in a heartbeat aren't the type of girls I'd want to take home anyway.
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Life admits not of delays; when pleasure can be had, it is fit to catch it. Every hour takes away part of the things that please us, and perhaps part of our disposition to be pleased.
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Donald Trump is out to destroy people's lives, and he's trying to take our democracy down. That is something we can fight with everything we've got, but having compassion for one another while we do it is going to get us a lot further.
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Remember my strong advice; just remember to always think twice.
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It's nice to get to know people who are the same age as you that do the same things because it's like a different level of understanding.
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The Lord is pleased with every effort, even the tiny, daily ones in which we strive to be more like Him.
