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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There is no training, classroom or otherwise, that can prepare for trading the last third of a move, whether it's the end of a bull market or the end of a bear market.
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We do not make friends with God; God makes friends with us, bringing us to know him by making his love known to us... The word know, when used of God in this way, is a sovereign-grace word, pointing to God's initiative in loving, choosing, redeeming, calling and preserving.
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In the first of these senses, neither Christ nor the Christian is supposed to be the world’s servant. Jesus is obedient, not to the world but to the Father. He is the servant of God, not of men, and we too are called to be servants of God.
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Athletics is in my blood.
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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.
