Ezra Taft Benson Quotes
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I was a go-go dancer at the Dom on East 10th Street in NYC. This was a glittering ballroom over Stanley's Bar. 1965.
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I have got prostate cancer, and I have to keep monitoring that. It's no problem, it's under control and I'm very cool about it, but other people are dying from it.
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If I can just be thought of as Omari Hardwick who had a really, really solid career, and whose work is appreciated in its own right, I think that would be a great legacy to leave behind.
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The artist produces for the liberation of his soul. It is his nature to create as it is the nature of water to run down the hill.
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There would be nights when I would wake up and couldn't get back to sleep. So I would go downstairs and write. The staff had a pool going on how many pages of typing I would bring in here in the morning.
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The imperative is to define what is right and do it.
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Indecision is a virus that can run through an army and destroy its will to win or even to survive.
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The Church is now more like the Scribes and Pharisees than like Christ... What are now called the 'essential doctrines' of the Christian religion he does not even mention.
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God is going to supply a million dollars, somebody is praying right now, right this second, you’re praying for a million dollars and God said, 'I have heard your prayer, I know your need, and I'm going to supply the need that you requested,' it's done, in Jesus' name.
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Maybe he's growing up.Or maybe he just needed the right circumstances to discover the best in himself.
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She realized now that she knew little about people outside the courts of Nabban and Erkynland, although she had always thought herself a shrewd judge of humanity. However, it was a larger and much more complicated world on the other side of the castle walls than she had ever suspected.
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Why not be a top-notcher? A top-notcher is simply an individual who works for the institution of which he is a part, not against it.
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Truth is strong enough to overcome all human sophistries.
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Learn all the rules... then break them.
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'The world? The world is not interested in us. Today, everything is possible, even the crematoria...'
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Kids my age never left California. And here I was, going to school with Aboriginal kids in a dream-like location.
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Vulnerability is basically uncertainty, risk, and emotional exposure.
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I can remember being fascinated by what people really thought about each other and what they were really doing to each other behind people's backs.
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Well, I think it's because I'm an only daughter. I have four brothers, a bunch of guy cousins, and so it's like I was raised amongst men. So I've always gotten along really well with men.
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The activity of God, which is transcendent in blessedness, is the activity of contemplation; and therefore among human activities that which is most akin to the divine activity of contemplation will be the greatest source of happiness.
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I was raised with fear of God, guilt over Jesus, and terror of the Devil.
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It takes the pressure off of your better players to know they don't always have to be on top of their game for the team to do well.
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Human beings can remain spiritual and religious while enjoying the benefits of rational administration of their affairs.
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There are times when you simply have to righteous hang on and outlast the devil.
