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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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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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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Whenever I have too much downtime, I start to get sad.
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Understanding the laws of nature does not mean that we are immune to their operations.
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I have a very extreme state of mind. Things are very black or very white.
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There's always great things that champions do. It can be inside fighting, this person uses his range well, this person has a great right hand - anytime you fight a champion, there's multiple things that they do well, and you have to try to take those strengths away.
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I like the simplicity of soloing. You've got no gear, no partner. You never climb better than when you free-solo.
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Meeting people at my fertility doctor's office who are going through the same things I'm going through, I thought, 'Why not share my story?' It's been really emotional.
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We have to be prepared and willing to discover what is true even at the cost of our comfort. For real security always lies on the side of truth, not on the side of comfort.
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As children we recognized that we belonged to an unusual, even exceptional, family, but the effect was different on each of us.
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Parents look at me like I'm somebody pretty important, and say, We were raised on your characters, and now we're enjoying them all over again with our children.
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I gain strength out of familiar surroundings.
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Every morning when I wake up, I listen to 'The Brian Lehrer Show' on WNYC.
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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.
