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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If you travel a lot, if you like roaming about in order to lose yourself, you can end up in the strangest places. I think it must be a kind of built-in radar, which often takes me to places that are either peculiarly quiet or peculiar in a quiet sort of way.
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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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We do not have an American culture. We have a white American culture and a black American culture. So when those two groups try to get together, it's very difficult because they each feel like they have the right to their culture.
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I'd begun to realize that there was an unspoken predjudice among book-learned people, a secret conviction they all seemed to share, that life as we know it is an imperfect vision of reality, and that only art, like a pair of reading glasses can correct it.
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Humor is wit and love.
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People want real changes, and they understand that we have to change the system.
