Ezra Taft Benson Quotes
Be guided by the Spirit. I have said so many times to my Brethren that the Spirit is the most important single element in this work. With the Spirit, and by magnifying your call, you can do miracles for the Lord in the mission field. Without the Spirit you will never succeed regardless of your talent and ability.
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When I was a kid, all I ever wanted was to be famous.
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As for the device we now call a TV or a cable box, I want it to be fast with a clean interface and seamlessly upgradeable to the latest software. I want it to be the primary source of all TV, not an ancillary device.
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To be well turned out, a woman should turn her thoughts in.
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If you go on working with the light available, you will meet your Master, as he himself will be seeking you.
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There are young idealists all around the world falling in love with the Yankees now and realists who are gravitating to the Red Sox. I think the universe is on its head.
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In our recovery package we put new standards of accountability and transparency, which we hope will now apply.
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I always knew that I was going to be a writer. There was no question in my mind about that.
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I always look at money not as a motivating factor but as an element in the composition. You can't ignore it, but you've got to be very careful that it's not motivating you.
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Al Gore seems to have found a great political ploy: Picking up whatever issue he is most vulnerable on and championing the cause. Perhaps he will start to champion perjury statutes and obstruction of justice.
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I'll take my destiny, whatever that may be, but I'm going to fight for my dignity and my honor.
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You have to captivate and entertain if you want your message to get across.
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I never planned on being an actress or Wonder Woman, but everything just happened, and I am grateful and happy and in love with what I do.
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I believe in honesty and integrity, having a belief system that you've thought through and then stick to. I believe in being creative and contributing, and I believe in taking a stand against injustice that you encounter in everyday life and not being idle in that respect.
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Teach your children everything that you're not, because they will pick up on everything that you are.
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Immigration is the ultimate entrepreneurship.
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The effect of depleted uranium, used by America in the Gulf War, is never referred to.
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I think you need to love giving compliments as much as you love receiving them.
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It is plain indeed that in spite of later estrangement Hobbits are relatives of ours: far nearer to us than Elves, or even than Dwarves. Of old they spoke the languages of Men, after their own fashion, and liked and disliked much the same things as Men did. But what exactly our relationship is can no longer be discovered.
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If you're quiet, you're not living. You've got to be noisy and colorful and lively.
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The best we can do, to paraphrase Pollan, is to eat whole foods, mostly plants, and not too much.
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Everybody had something horrible happen to them at one time or another in their life.
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Often we comfort ourselves only with words, but if we pray enough, the conviction will come too that Christ is our King, not Stalin, Bevins, or Truman. That He has all things in His hands, that 'all things work together for good for those that love Him.'
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In order to be able thus to misjudge, and thus to grant left-handed veneration to our classics, people must have ceased to know them. This, generally speaking, is precisely what has happened. For, otherwise, one ought to know that there is only one way of honoring them, and that is to continue seeking with the same spirit and with the same courage, and not to weary of the search.
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Be guided by the Spirit. I have said so many times to my Brethren that the Spirit is the most important single element in this work. With the Spirit, and by magnifying your call, you can do miracles for the Lord in the mission field. Without the Spirit you will never succeed regardless of your talent and ability.
