Ezra Taft Benson Quotes
Since man created government to help secure and safeguard inalienable rights from God, it follows that man is superior to government and should remain master over it, not the other way around.
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To be is to do.
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Pour a liquid out of its container, and it changes shape, fills the space you give it. If you give children a lot of space, it may surprise you where they'll go and the shape they'll take.
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Even if they knew the truth of their own feelings, most mothers would be socially and emotionally incapable of revealing it.
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My mom is, for 89 years old, is extraordinarily open-minded.
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At graduate school in 1999, I finally had the chance to examine why I believe what I believe. I realised that I'd had no period in my life where I'd consciously tried to develop my own theology.
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Is there discrimination against women? Yes, like the old boys' network. And sometimes discrimination against women becomes discrimination against men: in hazardous fields, women suffer fewer hazards.
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I definitely keep myself to myself; I don't really go out. If my friends want to see me, they know to come around to my house.
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Is it possible to live in this world without the operation of will?
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If religion is about truth, why is it so afraid of error?
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Che per amor venne in furore e matto,d'huom che si saggio era stimato prima.
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In a society that tries to standardize thinking, individuality is not highly prized
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When we were doing 'Live at Benaroya,' the song 'I Will' was hard to get through. I've always get a big lump in my throat when I sing that song. And also 'Before It Breaks.' So I'm just a different songwriter now. And the older I get, the more difficult it becomes to deliver those songs casually.
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In Mexico, they don't have birth certificates... They don't have registration cards for voters. They have one national ID. We don't have a national ID.
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Only as long as a company can produce a desired, worthwhile, and needed product or service, and can command the public, will it receive the public dollar and succeed.
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'Smoke Ring' was a downer, then 'Wakin' was an upturn.
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I don't think people will ever forget I was an 'Angel', anymore than they'll forget Sally Field was 'The Flying Nun.'
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I would like to call India a gold-mine of art. It's really the richest in the world.
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I have had to tell my son, my parents, my friends that I used steroids. It's been very hard. It's been very difficult.
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My father was against the death penalty, and that was hard in the Son of Sam summer when fear was driving the desire for the death penalty.
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People have to know that if they've wanted to lose weight, if they've wanted to get their diabetes better and get their cholesterol down, here is how it works. Beyond that point, you can't force people into changes, you have to guide them.
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I live by a hill. I began walking it and then I began jogging it and then I began sprinting it.
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My passion comes from the things that have historically happened to black people in Mississippi. I can honestly say that most of the things that I've accomplished in my life have come from my spirituality and my belief in God.
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Consciousness is the foundation of all thinking; and thinking is the foundation of all consciousness.
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Since man created government to help secure and safeguard inalienable rights from God, it follows that man is superior to government and should remain master over it, not the other way around.
