Ezra Taft Benson Quotes
Our desires, be they spiritual or temporal, should be rooted in a love of the Lord.
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We share a wonderful, I think, physical or geographical heritage.
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There are a lot of people who will tell you I'm very ruthless. I'm very fierce. If I feel I'm right, if I feel I've been violated, then I am like a warrior from hell!
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We came up short on offense and that's on me.
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Although there may be tragedy in your life, there’s always a possibility to triumph. It doesn’t matter who you are, where you come from. The ability to triumph begins with you. Always.
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A good director's not sure when he gets on the set what he's going to do.
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If you want to have any success in politics, sing softly and carry a big guitar.
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Everything America should be, Muhammad Ali is.
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It's possible for the heavyweight champion of the world to be with one woman.
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The supply-side effect of a restrictive monetary policy, moreover, is likely to be perverse. High interest rates enter into costs and thus exert inflationary pressure, as well as inhibiting the expansion of capacity or the introduction of cost -reducing capital improvements.
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Liberty consists in doing what one desires.
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Sir, in carrying on your government, why should you use killing at all? Let your evinced desires be for what is good, and the people will be good. The relation between superiors and inferiors is like that between the wind and the grass. The grass must bend, when the wind blows across it.
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If desires are not uprooted, sorrows grow again in you.
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Only a rebuke that 'has something in it' will sting, will have the power to stir our feelings, not the other sort, as we know.
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Our desires, be they spiritual or temporal, should be rooted in a love of the Lord.
