Ezra Taft Benson Quotes
Our great Constitution has been beaten and torn until now it hangs by a single thread, and that thread is our franchise to vote.
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As covetousness is the root of all evil, so poverty is the worst of all snares.
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I'm a man that believes what I see, and everywhere I go... and everywhere I've been... I get nothing but love.
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The experience of being in space didn't change my perspective of myself or of the planet or of life. I had no spiritual experience.
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Small companies need capital to invest, expand, and create jobs. And the economy needs a healthy small business community to bolster and sustain its recovery.
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America's decline would set in motion tectonic shifts undermining the political stability of the entire Middle East.
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Every month that we do not have an economic recovery package 500 million Americans lose their jobs.
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You can keep going on and on about the interactions of people, which makes it a great drama and great event, and you'll always hold that special, but if you're looking at a baseball moment, the feeling you get when you win the World Series by far exceeds anything else in the game that you're able to do.
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If scientific reasoning were limited to the logical processes of arithmetic, we should not get very far in our understanding of the physical world. One might as well attempt to grasp the game of poker entirely by the use of the mathematics of probability.
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No good work is ever done while the heart is hot and anxious and fretted.
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We encourage the growth of women's hockey.
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Forests, lakes, and rivers, clouds and winds, stars and flowers, stupendous glaciers and crystal snowflakes - every form of animate or inanimate existence, leaves its impress upon the soul of man.
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And still I'm not completely happy with my skating. I always feel I can do more and climb higher.
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The written word is the only anchor we have in life. How extraordinary would it be if we had even three or four paragraphs written honestly about their lives by our ancestors?
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When I was a boy I used to do what my father wanted. Now I have to do what my boy wants. My problem is: When am I going to do what I want?
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My husband cooks fancier food for himself than I've ever cooked on-air. I call him from the road, and he's making champagne-vanilla salmon or black-cherry pork chop. Half of me is feeling unworthy. Not only am I not a chef, I'm not a better cook than my own husband!
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The idea that to make a man work you've got to hold gold in front of his eyes is a growth, not an axiom. We've done that for so long that we've forgotten there's any other way.
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I love 'Harry Potter.' I'm a huge nerd - I would dress up if I could.
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I'm very excited that I can get on a skateboard and skateboard down the street now. That was something I never thought I'd be able to do. I conquered my fears.
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I listened for the whisper, of your sweet insanity.
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For legislators make the citizens good by forming habits in them, and this is the wish of every legislator, and those who do not effect it miss their mark, and it is in this that a good constitution differs from a bad one.
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There has never been any evidence that the death penalty reduces capital crimes or that crimes increased when executions stopped. Tragic mistakes are prevalent...It is clear that there are overwhelming ethical, financial, and religious reasons to abolish the death penalty.
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Our great Constitution has been beaten and torn until now it hangs by a single thread, and that thread is our franchise to vote.
