Ezra Taft Benson Quotes
Could many of our ills today have resulted from our failure to train a strong citizenry from the only source we have - the boys and girls of each community? Have they grown up to believe in politics without principle, pleasure without conscience, knowledge without effort, wealth without work, business without morality, science without humanity, worship without sacrifice?
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To preserve our sovereign integrity, we must prove to them nobody need tell us how to hold a clean and democratic election.
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I love being a part of country music. I love going out and... doing things for the first time for country music. I always enjoy that.
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Doctors cannot afford to provide care at the rate of reimbursement that Medicare insists that they accept.
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It's a very good historical book about history.
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The shoe that fits one person pinches another; there is no recipe for living that suits all cases.
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I am young, and I think all young guys would love to play a superhero - any superhero - it doesn't matter. I could be a superhero that would just turn into a big blob or something like that, but I could tell all the ladies, 'Hey, I am superhero!'
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I just wanted to rollerblade at Union Square.
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I would like to champion diverse forms like graphic novels and works told in verse and diverse writers and illustrators and diverse authors as well.
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Through my illness I learned rejection. I was written off. That was the moment I thought, Okay, game on. No prisoners. Everybody's going down.
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Writing is always a restorative process. It's like paddling a kayak. When you're writing, you can't do anything else. You're in the space you're in. So, in that way, it's enormously centering and restorative.
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Christine Bass was my high school music teacher. She took a program on its last legs and within a few years turned into one of the best programs in the country. Our high school dominated national choir competitions all through her 20-plus year tenure.
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I don't think that the Grammys are in any way a just way of grading music.
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The advice I would give to girls from Eastern backgrounds who are interested in the arts is that it is always beneficial to get your academic studies out of the way before going into the competitive world of the arts.
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I love my early movies, but naturalism is an artist's early style. Now I want to deal with feelings, dreams, an acceptance of irrationality.
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So in my uncertainty, I went to graduate school and there it all happened.
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Golf is not my priority. I would hope people see me as a Christian man who loved his family, who loved being in the heat of competition and sometimes succeeded at it; who understood that golf was his job and that he was very lucky to play it for a living.
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This was their ceremonial hymn: Anon We loved but would no marriage make. Anon The one refused the other one to take, Foreswore the sipping of the marriage wine.
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Ultimately, I conclude that however we understand existence, what gives meaning to our lives are those things that serve our neurochemically based emotional self-interest in a sustainable way.
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Real estate is the best investment for small savings. More money is made from the rise in real estate values than from all other causes combined.
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A musician is a professional, whether he or she is successful or not. The profession itself must be regarded as a stable job.
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It's really important how you say things because people won't necessarily remember what words you used, but they'll remember how you made them feel.
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Fraud includes the pretense of knowledge when knowledge there is none.
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Could many of our ills today have resulted from our failure to train a strong citizenry from the only source we have - the boys and girls of each community? Have they grown up to believe in politics without principle, pleasure without conscience, knowledge without effort, wealth without work, business without morality, science without humanity, worship without sacrifice?
