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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I was a little girl fighting as a partisan against Nazi-Fascism.
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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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The written word is the only anchor we have in life. How extraordinary would it be if we had even three or four paragraphs written honestly about their lives by our ancestors?
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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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Growth is a panacea for many ills in society; not entirely, but many.
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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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This hypnagogic condition. Attention-faculty diminished so that twilight state obtains; world seen merely in symbolic, archetypal aspect, totally confused with unconscious material.
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Today, if you want to access a typical out-of-print book, you have only one choice - fly to one of a handful of leading libraries in the country and hope to find it in the stacks.
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My parents took me to see plays, starting from when I was very little. Oftentimes, I was too young to understand. I don't know what my parents were thinking - 'Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf' when I was eight years old, that kind of thing. So lots of times, I didn't understand what was going on, but I just loved the sound of dialogue.
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I'd love to do another 'Indiana Jones.' A character that has a history and a potential, kind of a rollicking good movie ride for the audience, Steven Spielberg as a director - what's not to like?
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No sir. The first thing is character.
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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.
