Ezra Taft Benson Quotes
Nothing will surprise us more than when we get to heaven and see the Father and realize how well we know Him and how familiar His face is to us.
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Thus, biologically speaking the American people are literally only half an immigrant people.
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I was going to finish my university degree after finishing 'The Tailors,' but 'Pinocchio' made me to take another semester off.
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I really wanted to do things that weren't comic. It felt like finding people who can see this other side to me.
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I have already reached out to the janata, and I am only trying to acquaint myself with people's problems.
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Courage is on display every day, and only the courageous wring the most out of life.
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New York is a much more bourgeois city, more of a tourist attraction than a muscular metropolis. It's lost moxie and a rough energy, while gaining grace and friendliness. I love both versions of the city, but I wish the prosperous Manhattan would become a little easier for young people to afford.
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No good poem, however confessional it may be, is just a self-expression. Who on earth would claim that the pearl expresses the oyster?
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My parents didn't believe in luck. They believed in hard work and in preparing me to take advantage of opportunity. Like many parents, they taught me to be generous but never to depend on the generosity of others.
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The one regret I have about my own abortions is that they cost money that might otherwise have been spent on something more pleasurable, like taking the kids to movies and theme parks.
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Black people have been fighting for basic citizenship rights since the inception of the country.
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When I trade, I don't have an agency problem; I have my neck on the line. When a bank or banker trades, it's not his neck on the line.
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I believe in anything that will engage the audience and make the story more effective.
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They tell you that you'll lose your mind when you grow older. What they don't tell you is that you won't miss it very much.
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Tranvestism is far more common among men, I noted, because it originates in the primary relation of mother and son.
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Weisinger, a couple of years ago, made up the following story: 'Isaac Asimov was asked how Superman could fly faster than the speed of light, which was supposed to be an absolute limit. To this Asimov replied, 'That the speed of light is a limit is a theory; that Superman can travel faster than light is a fact.''
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Nationalism and racism, to take two examples, are the culturally nurtured outgrowths of simple tribalism.
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Beings who are so uniquely constituted must necessarily express themselves in other ways than ordinary men. It is impossible that with souls so differently modified, they should not carry over into the expression of their feelings and ideas the stamp of those modifications.
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We are not occupying Afghanistan, we are there as guests of a government, at their request.
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Great and strange ideas transcending experience often have less effect upon men and women than smaller, more tangible considerations.
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As long I still have a breath left in me I will dedicate myself fully to China's reform.
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Crowdfunding companies like GoFundMe are in themselves not evil. But the fact that we have to rely on them to pay for our basics is.
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My father played guitar, so I always wanted to play for that reason. But I think the biggest reason was just the '90s in general - growing up listening to the Smashing Pumpkins, Green Day and bands like that, and going to concerts and thinking it was the coolest thing in the world.
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I may neither choose who I would, nor refuse who I dislike; so is the will of a living daughter curbed by the will of a dead father.
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Nothing will surprise us more than when we get to heaven and see the Father and realize how well we know Him and how familiar His face is to us.
