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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My mom, she is the most unbelievable mom that you could ever have in your entire life and she's always with me on everything. The most I've ever been away from her is two days. I love her more than anybody could ever know.
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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'd always wanted to write books ever since I was a kid.
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I was actually a Cowboys fan.
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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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Character is to man what carbon is to steel.
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High IQ individuals don't like surprises and are pessimistic, because it's logical.
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The whole idea of equal justice under law means that you've got to play by the rules. It has nothing to do with the underlying subject matter. You just tell the truth.
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The only thing that stands between a man and what he wants from life is often merely the will to try it and the faith to believe that it is possible.
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A great sense of morality was instilled in me through my upbringing in the Catholic faith - particularly because my father is a moral theologian. And morality is something I believe exists separate from faith, as an intrinsic human quality that one should aspire to understand and participate in.
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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.
