Ezra Taft Benson Quotes
It is not enough simply to try to resist evil or empty our lives of sin. We must also fill our lives with righteousness.
Quotes to Explore
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When I was starting out and had to cut my teeth and build my resume to get in, I had to basically work for free on a lot of things.
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In thinking about it, the villains often have a little bit more range because their morality is different. You can have just a really good time as an actor, and there is just more there that you can explore on that side of the story.
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He was just trying to tease me - I knew that later - but he said he'd have to leave because it wasn't fair to have anyone in the room who was going to make fun of what he had to say. He had a good sense of humor, really.
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I think everyone's a little afraid of being part of a trend, because you get compared to each other. Writers tend to have a lot of camaraderie, and when you're constantly compared to someone else, it kind of damages that camaraderie, but I think this is a great trend. I'm honored to be a part of it in many ways.
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Great perils have this beauty, that they bring to light the fraternity of strangers.
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Fans will express themselves. We will always have the best security possible, as we always do. And I hope that Cleveland and the fans, you would hope that everybody keeps it to a certain level, because anything you do that crosses the line isn't going to look bad for anybody but the franchise and Cleveland.
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There is no bigger aphrodisiac than power.
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It's funny the things the Internet likes to proclaim.
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The business breeds such a deep insecurity. It's the nature of the beast, and there is nothing you can do to get away from that.
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But I'm a big believer that government does not have a monopoly on good ideas.
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My family wasn't particularly political. Mom and Dad voted, but that was the extent of their involvement. In fact, I ended up going to U.C. Davis because, to them, Berkeley was too radical.
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No one could understand the bond between me and my brother. I struggled to understand the forces that drove his soul in one direction and mine in another.
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Why should it be my loneliness, Why should it be my song, Why should it be my dream deferred overlong?
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Beware lest you lose the substance by grasping at the shadow.
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You are a human boy, my young friend. A human boy. O glorious to be a human boy!... O running stream of sparkling joy To be a soaring human boy!
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I'm never really happy with anything I do.
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We need to do whatever it takes to get our children together and pay attention to them, because that's our future. What's in the hearts and minds of our children is what's in our future.
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Fascism wants Baptism coast to coast.
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When you start to see another human being as less than you, it's a danger.
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You cannot pray for an A on a test and study for a B. You cannot pray for a celestial marriage and live a telestial life. You cannot pray for something and act less.
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The evil into which these philosophers have fallen is greater than that from which they sought to escape, because they refuse to say that God neglects or forgets a thing, and yet they maintain that His knowledge is imperfect, that He is ignorant of what is going on here on earth, that He does not perceive it.
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It is not enough simply to try to resist evil or empty our lives of sin. We must also fill our lives with righteousness.
