Ezra Taft Benson Quotes
I speak of honor-your honor to God-your honor to country-your honor to self. I sincerely believe it to be the cure to most of our ills, both on a national or individual basis.
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Sea Change was so specific. From the beginning it was set what it was going to be. All the other ideas that I had at the time I had to put to the side.
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Sometimes one creates a dynamic impression by saying something, and sometimes one creates as significant an impression by remaining silent.
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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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Women are the strong people in this world, not men. I think TV is finally catching up with that reality, and thank God.
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I try to get the best performance an actor can give.
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That is why we wholeheartedly support the American-led effort to free the people of Iraq. And though we are a small country with a small military, we are proud to stand side by side with our allies in the fight to end the reign of terror in Baghdad.
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The ear tends to be lazy, craves the familiar and is shocked by the unexpected; the eye, on the other hand, tends to be impatient, craves the novel and is bored by repetition.
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I miss that sensation of a small achievement feeling like a really big deal.
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The thing that I've always been slightly frustrated with, was that the idea of a CD is kind of confined to a material possession that you can put on a shelf. And the idea of music, for me, is always about both the communication and the sharing of content. And so the interactive part is missing.
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When I started selling air conditioners early on, customers were willing to pay an extra 200 yuan to buy from Suning. Why? Service was good.
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I look at Jerusalem as being a beacon for the three monotheistic religions.
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Of course I prefer to be with someone, but with the right someone.
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'Floating Worlds,' published in 1975 and the lone science fiction novel by acclaimed historical novelist Cecelia Holland, was unique in being completely devoid of the usual pulp influences present in much space opera up to that time.
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In ancient times and in our times, Muslim communities have been at the forefront of innovation and education.
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The nature of the infant is not just a new permutation-and-combination of elements contained in the natures of the parents. There is in the nature of the infant that which is utterly unknown in the natures of the parents.
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History is the revelation of providence.
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The West won the world not by the superiority of its ideas or values or religion (to which few members of other civilizations were converted) but rather by its superiority in applying organized violence. Westerners often forget this fact; non-Westerners never do.
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When you are older, you will learn that the first and foremost thing which any ordinary person does is nothing.
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What separates humans from other animals is our empathy. With the possible exception of bonobos, we are the most empathetic animal on the planet.
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Far from all of the obvious moves that go without saying are correct.
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Don't let the winds blow your dreams away... or steal your faith in God.
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The feeling of sleepiness when you are not in bed, and can't get there, is the meanest feeling in the world.
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From computers to information technology to airplanes, it has been America's unique blend of republican government and free-market capitalism that has allowed us to surpass all other nations in history.
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I speak of honor-your honor to God-your honor to country-your honor to self. I sincerely believe it to be the cure to most of our ills, both on a national or individual basis.
