Ezra Taft Benson Quotes
Besides the physical ordinance of baptism and the laying on of hands, one must be spiritually born again to gain exaltation and eternal life.
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Let a hundred flowers bloom.
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I love to cook. I could never give that up.
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In my opinion it is less shameful for a king to be overcome by force of arms than by bribery.
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I loved her. I still love her, though I curse her in my sleep, so nearly one are love and hate, the two most powerful and devasting emotions that control man, nations, life.
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In an art school it's very hard to tell who is the best.
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I'm a dilettante. My governing word is 'curiosity.'
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Southeast Asia was home for much of my childhood, but I moved to Hawaii when I was in high school.
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I don't sleep well. I rehash everything in bed. The mind's still working.
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It was among farmers and potato diggers and old men in workhouses and beggars at my own door that I found what was beyond these and yet farther beyond that drawingroom poet of my childhood in the expression of love, and grief, and the pain of parting, that are the disclosure of the individual soul.
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Politicians make phony promises all the time that they can't deliver.
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I'm kind of a robot in a way. Or a Tron.
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I think my purpose was just to get out and sing. I love to sing. I wasn't even in it for the - you know, the prize. I was, like, 'Hey, man, I'm going to sing.'
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I talk about the gods, I am an atheist. But I am an artist too, and therefore a liar. Distrust everything I say. I am telling the truth.
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It isn't foolish or wicked to enjoy. Wickedness is hurting people on purpose. I love what you are and who you are and how you are. You give me great joy. And you make horrible coffee.
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You must have faith in God.
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I'm really demanding. No girl really wants just a guy. You want a prince, you want Jesus. So when he comes around and his name is, like, Steve, what are you supposed to do?
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If we are to have another contest in the near future of our national existence, I predict that the dividing line will not be Mason and Dixon's but between patriotism and intelligence on the one side, and superstition, ambition and ignorance on the other.
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I never smile when I have a bat in my hands. That's when you've got to be serious. When I get out on the field, nothing's a joke to me. I don't feel like I should walk around with a smile on my face.
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You do it with your own two hands, so there's a sense of pride. You really do forget all our problems, because you're focusing on the food.
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You can buy a person's hands but you can't buy his heart. His heart is where his enthusiasm, his loyalty is.
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If Death stepped miraculously through the glass and came in after you, in all probability you just got up and went along with him, ferociously but quietly.
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Besides the physical ordinance of baptism and the laying on of hands, one must be spiritually born again to gain exaltation and eternal life.
