Ezra Taft Benson Quotes
If we have any criticism of our leaders, we invite Satan into our lives and beliefs.
Quotes to Explore
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When I was 8 or 9, I started using bulletin board systems, which was the precursor to the Internet, where you'd dial into... a shared system and shared computers. I've had an email address since the late '80s, when I was 8 or 9 years old, and then I got on the Internet in '93 when it was first starting out.
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It's very hard to put forth a film that's about love and the joy of love and for it not to be patronising and not make people nauseous or make them roll their eyes.
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I love songs that people can dance to and enjoy at the same time.
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We love it when we make mistakes that are better than something you could think up.
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I play for India, I play for the 100 million people of my country.
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When I moved in, I said, 'I don't care how this makes me look or sound: I am converting one of these bedrooms into a shoe closet.' It's become more of a dressing room, but one wall is shoes in their perfect cubbies.
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Non-violence, which is the quality of the heart, cannot come by an appeal to the brain.
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Everyone wants to be famous; so do I. But I cannot lose sleep over it.
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The feeling of being interested can act as a kind of neurological signal, directing us to fruitful areas of inquiry.
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My dreams have become puny with the reality my life has become.
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If, by chance, you were to meet me at the Casablanca airport or on a boat sailing from Tangiers, you would think me self-confident, but I am not. Even now, at my age, I am frightened when crossing borders because I am afraid of failing to understand strangers.
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I'm from a family of teachers. My father would drown me in the bathtub if my daughter didn't graduate from college. I don't care who she is or what she does. Just get the diploma.
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Often the raw ideas like ‘Relax’ and ‘Rage Hard’ - are the best. ‘Rage Hard’ just happened. There was little conscious effort.
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Here is a list of fearful things:The jaws of sharks, a vulture's wings,The rabid bite of the dog's of war,The voice of one who went before.But most of all the mirror's gaze,which counts us out our numbered days.
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There's a beautiful thing about experience. There's a beautiful thing about veteran smarts, but there's also a beautiful thing about youth and the potential that creates down the road.
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If you try to stay young forever, you don't really live.
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Compared to what some of the young comics use for material today, I'm a priest.
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Most people are embarrassed to admit there's another human being that's in control of them, that your heart beats three times as fast because you've given yourself to someone else.
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When we have learned the process of faith for receiving healing, we have learned how to receive everything else God promises us in His Word.
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It appears, from all that precedes, reasonably certain that if there be any relative motion between the earth and the luminiferous ether, it must be small; quite small enough entirely to refute Fresnel's explanation of aberration.
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First, I have the privilege of being Chairman of the Senate Intelligence Committee. It is not an oxymoron I assure you.
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If the brutal facts are not faced by leaders, the brutal reality sets in.
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I went deep inside myself. I had time to explore my beliefs and because of that I'm stronger.
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If we have any criticism of our leaders, we invite Satan into our lives and beliefs.
