Ezra Taft Benson Quotes
Young people, you need the wisdom of age, just as some of us older ones need your enthusiasm for life.
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People have always thought of me as being something, but I'm just a human being like everyone else.
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All the evidence shows very clearly that if you are a member of a trade union you are likely to get better pay, more equal pay, better health and safety, more chance to get training, more chance to have conditions of work that help if you have caring responsibilities... the list goes on!
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The basic law of capitalism is you or I, not both you and I.
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The alleged menace of universal suffrage having been avoided by the absolute suppression of the negro vote, the spirit of mob murder should have been satisfied and the butchery of negroes should have ceased.
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Sometimes when you play a golf course for the first time, you just got to be committed to your targets.
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We must overcome the notion that we must be regular... it robs you of the chance to be extraordinary and leads you to the mediocre.
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You cannot do a kindness too soon, for you never know how soon it will be too late.
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Common sense is compelled to make its way without the enthusiasm of anyone.
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I'm not good at telling a joke, but I can say a line in a certain way that makes people uncomfortable because they don't know whether to laugh or not, and I love that comedy.
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I'm really, really emotional.
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There are apparently three factors that lead to longevity: heredity, habits, and what your wife will let you get away with.
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In time truth and science and nature will adapt themselves to art. Things will happen logically, and the villain be discomfited instead of being elected to the board of directors. But in the meantime fiction must not only be divorced from fact, but must pay alimony and be awarded custody of the press despatches.
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I've never been good at saying no.
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I've tried several varieties of sex, all of which I hate. The conventional position makes me claustrophobic; the others give me a stiff neck and/or lockjaw.
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It doesn't mean much;It doesn't mean anything at all.The life I've left behind meIs a cold room.I've crossed the last lineFrom where I can't return.Where every step I took in faithBetrayed meAnd led me from my home.And sweet sweet surrenderIs all that I have to give.
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A flexible exchange rate is important, and it shouldn't be artificially restrained because of the needs of the economy.
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I had written many things as a journalist, but I had no idea if I could write something scary or romantic or touching that wasn't me writing about someone else's life story. It was really exciting to try.
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Treating HIV/AIDS is a lifelong commitment that demands strict adherence to drug protocols, consistent care, and a trusting relationship with health care providers.
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The variable that really boosts your performance is the actors around you.
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Giftedness is your accelerator; wisdom is your brake.
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I wouldn't describe that 'position' as 'parasitic.' I'd describe that experience as 'edifying.' I don't merely write from a critical intellectual distance. I actually live around here.
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The Bookshop has a thousand books,
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Young people, you need the wisdom of age, just as some of us older ones need your enthusiasm for life.
