Ezra Taft Benson Quotes
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Whereas, generally speaking, zinc reacts suitably only with the first members of the alkyl iodides, with magnesium it is possible to use bromides, iodides, and in many cases, chlorides.
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Let's create a legal system that can work.
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I draft tweets, like, 20 times.
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No one could understand the bond between me and my brother. I struggled to understand the forces that drove his soul in one direction and mine in another.
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I know every line to 'The Little Rascals.'
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If I had foreseen Hiroshima and Nagasaki, I would have torn up my formula in 1905.
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Our salvation comes to us so easily because it cost God so much.
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I wasn't trying to be rich or famous; I was trying to figure out what is this thing in me that won't let me sleep that makes me restless and makes me keep pushing. I was trying to discover who I was.
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Seek the opportunity to act on your ideas and dreams.
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Comparing [our] blessings [with others] is almost certain to drive out joy. We cannot be grateful and envious at the same time. If we truly want to have the Spirit of the Lord and experience joy and happiness, we should rejoice in our blessings and be grateful.
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In the wild struggle for existance, we want to have something that endures, and so we fill our minds with rubbish and facts, in the silly hope of keeping our place.
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All thought is immoral. Its very essence is destruction. If you think of anything, you kill it. Nothing survives being thought of.
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Nothing was ever created by a human being that was not first created in the imagination through desire and then transformed into reality through concentration.
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These facts make the creator of music a being like the gods, and make music itself the supreme mystery of human knowledge.
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I've never tried to work chronologically. I don't think I have the discipline to do that.
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In Baltimore, soft crabs are always fried (or broiled) in the altogether, with maybe a small jock-strap of bacon added.
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My wife was my greatest asset. I didn't marry her until after World War II, but she has complemented me in every job I've ever had
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If I was doing a talk show, I would do the kind of show that comes on just once a month, with amazing guests.
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And once, or twice, to throw the dice is a gentlemanly game, But he does not win who plays with Sin in the secret house of shame.
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Ingratitude is the frost that nips the flower even as it opens, that shrivels the generous apple on the branch, that freezes the fountain in mid-flow and numbs the hand, even in the very act of giving. It is a sin of silence, absence and omission, as winter's sin is a lack of light; a sin against charity, which otherwise warms the heart and, in the truest sense, makes the world turn.”
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I'm really interested in the idea of long, long life and transformation and immortality.
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Nations cannot endure in sin.
