Ezra Taft Benson Quotes
Pride is a sin that can readily be seen in others but is rarely admitted in ourselves.
Quotes to Explore
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Calling Rand Paul 'the most interesting man in politics' is an invitation to an argument - but one we suspect he'd love to have.
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'Scott Pilgrim' is something that was a little bit more difficult to put in one box. But, to me, that's not necessarily a bad thing about the movie.
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As you keep your mind and heart focused in the right direction, approaching each day with faith and gratitude, I believe you will be empowered to live life to the fullest and enjoy the abundant life He has promised you!
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I actually hate shopping.
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A new understanding of power is replacing our old understanding of power as the ability to manipulate and control. The old understanding of power has become counterproductive to our evolution. What used to be good medicine has become poisonous. Pursuit of the ability to manipulate and control now produces only violence and destruction.
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I just feel like I'm such a normal person in an industry that is so chaotic and crazy. I am what I am, and I can't change it. And I don't want to change it.
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Metaphysics is the finding of bad reasons for what we believe upon instinct; but to find these reasons is no less an instinct.
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I have this view that losing weight is easy, keeping it off is hard because keeping it off is the discipline.
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Generally, if I read something that I think is really good and that I feel a connection with and is right for me, I see and hear who the guy is, as manifested by me.
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If I don’t speak truth I can’t seek truth.
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For me, art has neither past nor future. All I have ever made was for the present.
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A totally unmystical world would be a world totally blind and insane.
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We are what we eat, so I eat as many veggies as I can!
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It's truly disheartening to me to see so many beautiful women who have no idea what their potential is.
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I've seen the impact of deportation in my district. It is heartbreaking to see families torn apart for no good reason.
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With the World War II era, there's so much written material to draw on. When you go back to the 14th century, you have to imagine more.
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I listen to Christian music.
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I have long known that it is part of God's plan for me to spend a little time with each of the most stupid people on earth.
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The unwilling soldier will do anything to fight for a useless fabric piece of ribbon.
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The town was abuzz with talk of the King's animals. We were fed regularly, and the King and Queen quite often enjoyed feeling my abdomen to see if I weren't pregnant; they were extraordinarily eager to have a whole family of little animals like us.
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I believe in pride of race and lineage and self: in pride of self so deep as to scorn injustice to other selves; in pride of lineage so great as to despise no man's father; in pride of race so chivalrous as neither to offer bastardy to the weak nor beg wedlock of the strong, knowing that men may be brothers in Christ, even though they be not brothers-in-law.
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Pride measures prosperity not by her own advantages but by the disadvantages of others. She would not even wish to be a goddess unless there were some wretches left whom she could order about and lord it over, whose misery would make her happiness seem all the more extraordinary, whose poverty can be tormented and exacerbated by a display of her wealth. This infernal serpent, pervading the human heart, keeps men from reforming their lives, holding them back like a suckfish.
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I am God's vessel. But my greatest pain in life is that I will never be able to see myself perform live.
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Pride is a sin that can readily be seen in others but is rarely admitted in ourselves.
