Ezra Taft Benson Quotes
The earth was cursed for Adam's sake. Work is our blessing, not our doom. God has a work to do, and so should we.
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I don't regret doing any of my films. All of them have been great learning experiences, and they have contributed to making me what I am today.
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The greatest mathematicians, as Archimedes, Newton, and Gauss, always united theory and applications in equal measure.
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The high point was that the people are really nice - despite the crazy politics - and I loved being there. The hardest part was knowing some of the things I was probably going to write about Texas would make those nice people very unhappy.
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Poetry is an art, the easiest to dabble in, but the hardest to reach true excellence.
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There is no more respected or influential forum in the field of journalism than the New York Times. I look forward, with great anticipation, to contributing to its op-ed page.
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Our company sells about five to six million pounds of sausage a year. We sell it retail and to restaurants. We've got all kinds of products.
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Jealousy... is a mental cancer.
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Everything is tennis for me, it's my career and it's entertainment, but it's also a business.
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Speaking as somebody with three sisters and a very largely female Muslim family, there is not a single woman I know in my family or in their friends who would have accepted the wearing of a veil.
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Basically, my idea and explorations on fashion have not changed; however, I believe I'm going state-of-the-art on fashion.
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Strictly speaking, the idea of a scientific poem is probably as nonsensical as that of a poetic science.
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At the heart of every great movie is conflict. It's the same with a meeting. There should be conflict and tension.
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It's interesting: in the late '80s, there was this really random mix of new wave, industrial, and these early house records. And a lot of it was coming out of Chicago because of Wax Trax! So I always visited Wax Trax Records.
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A women knows how to keep quiet when she is in the right, whereas a man, when he is in the right, will keep on talking.
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Ours is an excessively conscious age. We know so much, we feel so little.
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I like my parents but they are just not good parents. They are nice enough people. I'm not interested in hurting their feelings.
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As humans, we all want our own island. Of course, the truth is, we're never going to get it.
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There is no stimulus like that which comes from the consciousness of knowing that others believe in us.
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Everybody's got a story on their beards. I guess it's just a way of finding common ground with people you otherwise might not know.
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The NFL is a unique work place. There are no secrets anymore. Technology has taken over, and secrets are exposed. People are going to know what you're all about. You have to make sure you have real honesty in the work place, or you're going to be exposed.
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The universe is like a safe to which there is a combination. But the combination is locked up in the safe.
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To ordinary folks, conversion is not always automatic. It's something that may or may not require explicit assistance. See Billy Graham.
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In our equities business, 49 of the 50 most important Lehman clients are back doing business with us. The flows are 75 to 80 per cent of what they were prior to the bankruptcy. The issues which damaged Lehman were around commercial mortgages and illiquid private equity assets.
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The earth was cursed for Adam's sake. Work is our blessing, not our doom. God has a work to do, and so should we.
