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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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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In the five years I've been here, this is the biggest game we've had. This one's kind of special.
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It's just as important to show the hard things in the world as it is to show the beautiful ones. Even in the midst of horrible things, there are little bits of wonder, and all of it's true.
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Sex is not sinful, but sin has perverted it.
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Even the highest forms of sacrificial worship present much that is repulsive to modern ideas, and in particular it requires an effort to reconcile our imagination to the bloody ritual which is prominent in almost every religion which has a strong sense of sin.
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We ought first to know that there are no good works except those which God has commanded, even as there is no sin except that which God has forbidden.
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Nations cannot endure in sin.
