Ezra Taft Benson Quotes
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He's so good, you wonder what's wrong with him.
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Every Tom, Dick and Harry in our movement has received his cash.
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We discover and invent new ways of finding out the same old things.
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It's not hard to get the ideas when they come. They just come... it's painful waiting for them.
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We [ with Andy Samberg] knew each other for the last few years, our names are similar, our looks are a little bit similar, and our backgrounds are similar. The Judaism is quite similar.
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It's impossible to write about Native life without humor-that's how people maintain sanity.
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If the devil cannot make us bad, he will make us busy.
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I feel myself driven towards an end that I do not know. As soon as I shall have reached it, as soon as I shall become unnecessary, an atom will suffice to shatter me. Till then, not all the forces of mankind can do anything against me.
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The most desirable mode of education, is that which is careful that all the acquisitions of the pupil shall be preceded and accompanied by desire . . . The boy, like the man, studies because he desires it. He proceeds upon a plan of is own invention, or by which, by adopting, he has made his own. Everything bespeaks independence and inequality.
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We live in a pretty bleak time. I feel that in the air. Everything is uncertain. Everything feels like its on the precipice of some major transformation, whether we like it or not.
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I'm great at dishwashing.
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The Russian norm is an extremely barbaric state of mind.
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You don't have to flaunt your success, but you don't have to apologize for it, either
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One of the most striking results of modern investigation has been the way in which several different and quite independent lines of evidence indicate that a very great event occurred about two thousand million years ago. The radio-active evidence for the age of meteorites; and the estimated time for the tidal evolution of the Moon's orbit (though this is much rougher), all agree in their testimony, and, what is far more important, the red-shift in the nebulae indicates that this date is fundamental, not merely in the history of our system, but in that of the material universe as a whole.
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I didn't feel like I fitted in. I felt like I was a hindrance to A-ha.
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God's cause is committed to men; God commits Himself to men. Praying men are the vice-regents of God; they do His work and carry out His plans.
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If we do not feel like praying, then we should pray until we do feel like praying.
