Ezra Taft Benson Quotes

I feel certain that if, in our homes, parents will read from the Book of Mormon prayerfully and regularly, both by themselves and with their children, the spirit of that great book will come to permeate our homes and all who dwell therein.

Ezra Taft Benson

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• We are slaves to whatever we don't understand.

  

  Vernon Howard
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• Concision in style, precision in thought, decision in life.

  

  Victor Hugo
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  • Style
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• You gotta take care of the people that are part of the foundation. If you don't, it crumbles.

  

  Jack Scalia
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• I have a very vivid memory of the way my parents spoke, and the 50's that I grew up in are closer to the 20's, I think, than today in many, many ways.

  

  Gail Carson Levine
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• A group of white South Africans recently killed a black lawyer because he was black. That was wrong. They should have killed him because he was a lawyer.

  

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• Drawing is the honesty of the art. There is no possibility of cheating. It is either good or bad.

  

  Salvador Dali
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• My relationship with my body has changed. I used to consider it as a servant who should obey, function, give pleasure. In sickness, you realise that you are not the boss. It is the other way around.

  

  Federico Fellini
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• I try to make myself, and subsequently the audience, as uncomfortable as possible, whether it's completely desecrating a song they thought was one thing, or getting too drunk to really do a very good job.

  

  J. Tillman
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• When you get to that level, it's not a matter of talent anymore - because all the players are so talented - it's about preparation, about playing smart and making good decisions.

  

  Hakeem Olajuwon
  • Good
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• Smart women love smart men more than smart men love smart women.

  

  Natalie Portman
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• We've got to decide that we want to live in a world that is sane and happy and healthy, and that everyone deserves that.

  

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• I never drink water. I'm afraid it will become habit-forming.

  

  W. C. Fields
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• In economics, one of the most important concepts is 'opportunity cost' - the idea that once you spend your money on something, you can't spend it again on something else.

  

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• Satellite images suggest North Korea is building a light-water reactor and working on uranium enrichment. This is troubling.

  

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  • Light
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• That is the most stupid thing yet. I tell you that I could despair of human intelligence when I see what can exist in men’s minds.

  

  Isaac Asimov
  • Men
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• I'm terrified of heights, but I think there's something really beautiful about birds and soaring, having a bird's-eye view of the world.

  

  Lindy Booth
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• We are all put in different positions for different reasons.

  

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• I'm a film maker who started on the Atari and then went onto the Commodore 64 and the Amiga. So I possibly have a different sensibility to people who didn't play games growing up.

  

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• I probably haven't had enough gay characters in my stuff. When you're writing something, you're thinking, 'Why couldn't this person be black, white, gay?'

  

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• There is no freedom without justice.

  

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• I'm the only gay person my parents know.

  

  Lance Bass NSYNC
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  • Know
  • Gay

• All love – love of children, love of parents, love of God or life – comes out of making physical love. Without the making of love there is no body to love anything.

  

  Barry Long
  • Life
  • God
  • Children

• There is nothing I have to reflect on that gives me more satisfaction than the fact that my life is insured for the benefit of my Dear Wife and children.

  

  Ezra Cornell
  • Children
  • Wife
  • Satisfaction

• I feel certain that if, in our homes, parents will read from the Book of Mormon prayerfully and regularly, both by themselves and with their children, the spirit of that great book will come to permeate our homes and all who dwell therein.

  

  Ezra Taft Benson
  • Children
  • Parents
  • I Feel