Ezra Taft Benson Quotes
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The fact is we can only love what we know personally. And we cannot know much. In public affairs, in the rebuilding of civilization, something less dramatic and emotional is needed, namely tolerance.
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There are really three parts to the creative process. First there is inspiration, then there is the execution, and finally there is the release.
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The air in a man's lungs 10,000,000,000,000,000,000,000 atoms, so that sooner or later every one of us breathes an atom that has been breathed before by anyone you can think of who has ever lived - Michelangelo or George Washington or Moses.
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Scriabin isn't the sort of composer whom you'd regard as your daily bread, but is a heavy liqueur on which you can get drunk periodically, a poetical drug, a crystal that's easily broken.
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The fact is that child rearing is a long, hard job, the rewards are not always immediately obvious, the work is undervalued, and parents are just as human and almost as vulnerable as their children.
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In se magna ruunt: laetis hunc numina rebuscrescendi posuere modum.
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Lincoln had no such person that he could talk with. Often, as a result, he debated with himself, and he would draw up a kind of list of the pros and cons of an argument, and carefully figure them out, and he might test them in public.
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I must have been a really pretentious little girl.
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For me, shoe-wise, platforms give me the same height that I need, but they're not as taxing on my feet.
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I spent 10 years in New York doing theater.
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We live in a connected world now. Some find that frightening. If people are downloading our music, they're listening to it. The internet is like radio for us.
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Miscellaneous is always the largest category.
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My biggest dream was to get out of Michigan - to discover life beyond the Sacred Heart Convent.
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The crafting of lyrics is really a task, and when it comes to street culture, I don't feel like anyone else articulates it better than me.
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I think I have a heavily compartmentalized brain, which means that certain routines are simply running without me realizing it.
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Sometimes what works 40 years ago doesn't work today.
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Europe must act quickly where it's needed and must, once and for all, let member states handle what is their exclusive domain.
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Humor is a way of holding off how awful life can be.
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We spent as much money as we could and got as little for it as people could make up their minds to give us. We were always more or less miserable, and most of our acquaintance were in the same condition. There was a gay fiction among us that we were constantly enjoying ourselves, and a skeleton truth that we never did. To the best of my belief, our case was in the last aspect a rather common one.
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Boeing just took $20 billion and 10 years to improve the efficiency of their planes by 10 percent. That's pretty lame. I have a design in mind for a vertical liftoff supersonic jet that would be a really big improvement.
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As a rule, we find what we look for; we achieve what we get ready for.
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No matter how bad things are, they could always be worse. Start finding gratitude for what might have happened, but didn't.
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Acknowledging the Lord's hand in our lives cultivates gratitude. . . .
