Ezra Taft Benson Quotes
This is our first interest as a church-to save and exalt the souls of the children of men. There is no richer program anywhere in the world than we have in the Church today for the building of men and women and providing the answers to the problems that face parents, families, and individuals. It is a program that is needed today as never before.
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If I can help a kid discover a liking, or even a passion for music in their life, then that's a wonderful thing.
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Being the vice-captain, you see a lot of things on the field. You have to try and help the captain as much as you can and lead by example on the field. Small things like getting a run-out or taking a catch makes the other boys try and lift their standards. So yes, I do have an important role, even if I'm not captain.
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I hate to witness animals in captivity - or see circus elephants paraded down the streets. When animals are caged, it's a loss of what they are.
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Anger is the enemy of non-violence and pride is a monster that swallows it up.
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Fast is fine, but accuracy is everything.
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In science, technology, engineering and mathematics, men far outnumber women in the classroom and the boardroom.
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Secular cycles are the long periods - as long as decades - that come to define each market era. These cycles alternate between long-term bull and bear markets.
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America is about choices, including those to live certain lifestyles.
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You want your kids to grow with the right culture and values, and the toughest part would be finding out how to instill those values in your kids.
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We - we need strength, we need energy, we need quickness and we need brain in this country to turn it around.
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I'm a good Jewish boy from Edison, New Jersey, so I went and saw 'Fiddler on the Roof' because you have to: that's part of your bar mitzvah experience.
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I'm very into film and strengthening what it means to be a rapper and to be a black dude from Chicago.
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About two-thirds of bachelor's degree holders borrow to go to school, and on average they're graduating with more than $26,000 in debt.
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Ads are the cave art of the twentieth century.
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I see myself more as an action director. All right, I do enjoy intense, bloodthirsty action but I like to blend and cross genres. I don't want to be too predictable.
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I still picture myself as a student of the music. I'm always trying to learn new things. Music is just what makes me tick.
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Whenever I have too much downtime, I start to get sad.
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The trouble with making music as a job is that I have no outside interests. All I can do to wind down is go to sleep.
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The end of the Nineties was an unhappy Primus camp. I hit a creative stagnation that wasn't helping us forward, and the personal elements, it just was time to stop.
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I have no regrets in my life even the crazy things I've been in. It all made me the I am today and I wouldn't change anything. I'm happy with who I am!
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A forest ecology is a delicate one. If the forest perishes, its fauna may go with it. The Athshean word for world is also the word for forest.
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I have the freedom to do what I want... bright people to talk to every day.
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This is our first interest as a church-to save and exalt the souls of the children of men. There is no richer program anywhere in the world than we have in the Church today for the building of men and women and providing the answers to the problems that face parents, families, and individuals. It is a program that is needed today as never before.
