Ezra Taft Benson Quotes
It is mother's influence during the crucial formative years that forms a child's basic character. Home is the place where a child learns faith, feels love, and thereby learns from mother's loving example to choose righteousness.
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It was pride that changed angels into devils; it is humility that makes men as angels.
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When you feel bad on the inside, you wind up wanting to do things to make others feel bad. In contrast, when you feel happy on the inside, you want to do things to make others feel happy.
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You have injuries that bother you when you're not playing. When that horn blows, you don't feel it.
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Some of the craziest people I've met, in my life, are some of the most brilliant people I've met.
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With the right kind of financing, I think we can grow by 100 percent per year.
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I've been around the track a lot. I've had the best of the years, and I don't want a single year back.
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People have crossed the Himalayas in flip-flops seeking a blessing from the Dalai Lama.
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I cannot assume emotions I do not feel, and must describe Jerusalem as I found it. Since being here, I have read the accounts of several travellers, and in many cases the devotional rhapsodies – the ecstacies of awe and reverence – in which they indulge, strike me as forced and affected.
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In the past, I used to tell everyone that I have never had a boyfriend, because I was still quite young. However, I cannot say the same thing now.
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If you can find a frock you look nice in and can run up three flights of stairs, you're not fat.
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I am frequently attacked.
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Money is not important to me. What makes me feel successful is making the people I love happy.
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Shopmas now begins on Thanksgiving Day. Apparently, escaping the families you cannot stand to spend another minute with on Thanksgiving Day to go buy them gifts is how some Americans show their affection for one another. Weird.
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Mom and I…we're both very flaky people.
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All you do is head straight for the grave, a face just covers a skull awhile. Stretch that skull-cover and smile.
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‘…you read mostly menus and the moles on whores’ bellies….’
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I grew up with an older brother, and the bond between siblings is unlike anything else, and it can be a real journey to accept what that bond is once you both mature into it. Because it's not always what you want. It's not always what you expect. It's not always what you imagined or hoped. But it's one of the most important things in the world.
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Passing into practical life, illustrations of this fact are found everywhere; the distant, or the unseen, steadies and strengthens us against the rapid whirl of things around us.
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I love Matt LeBlanc in 'Episodes' - he's very good. And the 'Modern Family' cast just cracks me up.
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O Winter! frozen pulse and heart of fire, What loss is theirs who from thy kingdom turn Dismayed, and think thy snow a sculptured urn Of death! Far sooner in midsummer tire The streams than under ice. June could not hire Her roses to forego the strength they learn In sleeping on thy breast.
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Being someone who prays or fasts doesn't mean you want an Islamic state. Islam in the form of the Iranian state has been defeated in the Arab world. All Islamist movements now want to copy the Turkish model.
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When you get money you're always a target because there's always somebody who needs money out there.
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It is mother's influence during the crucial formative years that forms a child's basic character. Home is the place where a child learns faith, feels love, and thereby learns from mother's loving example to choose righteousness.
