Ezra Taft Benson Quotes
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Let's judge a man on what he's done.
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If we are to change America, we must change the United States Congress.
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There's nothing wrong with constructive criticism, and I learn from that and better myself. I'm not expecting anyone to be sycophantic in any way; I never expected that.
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There can be no defence like elaborate courtesy.
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Although you may spend your life killing, You will not exhaust all your foes. But if you quell your own anger, your real enemy will be slain.
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I never considered myself a movie star, and I didn't want to become a movie star, because as soon as you do, you throw away that possibility of playing character. You really do. All of a sudden you're just an entity, you know?
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We Belgians love when we can go to L.A. because the city is amazing and the climate is fantastic.
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Trivializing the Holocaust is the last thing I want to do.
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I did model for a little while part-time, but I wasn't a bloody model, and I am definitely not that horrible thing 'model-turned-actress.'
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Winning one league title at Roma, to me, is worth winning 10 at Juventus or Real Madrid.
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I feel bad that I'm the one always blamed for the failure of the space business - even though there are problems with government policy toward the space business.
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All the dreamers in all the world are dizzy in the noodle.
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I'm just concerned that if I get older, people aren't going to enjoy me as much as when I was younger, because I had a great voice for a little girl, but I mean, my voice can't get any bigger when I'm older.
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Serial killing is not about sex at all, but about power and control and revenge on society.
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Without God man has no reference point to define himself.
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The ideal student would be one who was not working for grades but was working because he was interested in the work and not trying to compete with fellow students.
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A devotee should be fixed in the conclusion that, the spiritual master cannot be subject to criticism and should never be considered equal to a common man.
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I don't know if paradise or hell exist, but I'm sure hell is more groovy.
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Numbers are intellectual witnesses that belong only to mankind.
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Every step and every movement of the multitude, even in what are termed enlightened ages, are made with equal blindness to the future; and nations stumble upon establishments, which are indeed the result of human action, but not the execution of any human design.
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My favorite ski run in the U.S. is International on the front face of Vail Mountain.
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Happiness can be found neither in ourselves nor in external things, but in God and in ourselves as united to him.
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I shall attempt to prove two things: first, that the actions and dispositions of mankind are the offspring of circumstances and events, and not of any original determination that they bring into the world; and, secondly, that the great stream of our voluntary actions essentially depends, not upon the direct and immediate impulses of sense, but upon the decisions of the understanding.
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Wickedness never did, never does, never will bring us happiness.
