Ezra Taft Benson Quotes
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Let me just say as one who has been speaker of the House, I've had to have a very thick skin about every kind of thing that was thrown at me.
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Whenever I see the news, it's always the same depressing things.
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One minute you're a slug and the next minute you're a hero, so you don't know what to think.
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I know what I want to achieve in each book and the major points, but I don't plan right down to the chapters. I think that the characters write themselves in some degree.
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As a young man you don't notice at all that you were, after all, badly affected. For years afterwards, at least ten years, I kept getting these dreams, in which I had to crawl through ruined houses, along passages I could hardly get through.
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Music is about the performance.
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The beauty of diversification is it's about as close as you can get to a free lunch in investing.
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It's very difficult when you have $1.50 per day to spend on food and drink, but for people who live this reality, that money also has to cover medical expenses and education, fuel and shelter - sometimes for an entire family.
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The Founders believed liberty came directly from God. With their knowledge of Scripture, they knew each child was made in the image of God. That is why everyone had dignity, value and worth.
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Your life story would not make a good book. Don't even try.
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It's funny. Of all the jobs I've been ambitious for, this is one that never crossed my mind.
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Rehab is endlessly repetitive. And it's never easy, because once you've mastered some movement or action or word, no matter how small, you move on to the next. You never rest.
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Words are not even within me. They're not in my vocabulary to really express the kind of feeling that I had.
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I love palm strikes because you have a longer reach. Normally, when you give a left hook and then a right straight, you are too close for the right straight. Why? Because the hook is shorter.
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The most important thing you will do is yet to be seen. For me, I found my important thing to do when I learned to do surgery on the eye, when I learned to restore a person's vision.
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I no doubt deserved my enemies, but I don't believe I deserved my friends.
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Everybody needs somebody.
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The people of the Sudan expect a lot from the institution of the presidency, and we should live up to their expectations.
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My mother had a premonition from the very word 'GO.' She knew there was something to be afraid of and the only thing that she felt strongly about was that to say a ship was unsinkable was flying in the face of God. Those were her words.
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You turn the handle the way it goes, not the way it ought to go.
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Perhaps we shall learn, as we pass through this age, that the 'other self" is more powerful than the physical self we see when we look into a mirror.
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A good way to rid one's self of a sense of discomfort is to do something. That uneasy, dissatisfied feeling is actual force vibrating out of order; it may be turned to practical account by giving proper expression to its creative character.
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One thing can make many other things happen.
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The great task of life is to learn the will of the Lord and then do it.
