Ezra Taft Benson Quotes
In general, the more food we eat in its natural state - without additives - and the less it is refined, the healthier it will be for us. Food can affect the mind, and deficiencies of certain elements in the body can promote mental depression.
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Indeed the three prophecies about the death of individual art are, in their different ways, those of Hegel, Marx, and Freud. I don't see any way of getting beyond those prophecies.
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A lot of times, I played bass on songs. Gene plays guitar on some songs.
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This country has far more problems than it deserves and far more solutions than it applies.
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Coming up with ideas is really hard - they don't spontaneously pop into my head while I'm cutting vegetables.
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I always have the impression that I write the same book.
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That's my only active wish. I think if I sang like Don Henley, this would be a lot more agreeable business.
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It is better to be a has-been than a never-was.
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All I want to do is a rom-com, but you know, people see me as an action person because the first movie that was seen by a lot of the public would be 'Hitman.'
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As a kid, I loved 'Godot' because of the poetry and the humor and the strangeness, but then as you get older, it's much more resonant.
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As a young boy, scouting gave me a confidence and camaraderie that is hard to find in modern life.
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I didn't act in Israel, but I wrote plays at home and acted in plays at school. I tried to get an agent when I was 12, but they told me that I had too much of an accent.
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When you start a sentence with the word 'illegal', you've got nowhere to go. An illegal is illegal.
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Man learns through experience, and the spiritual path is full of different kinds of experiences. He will encounter many difficulties and obstacles, and they are the very experiences he needs to encourage and complete the cleansing process.
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'Happiness is a Small Politician' - my mantra then and forever more.
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The Antipods…were always ready to burst.
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Life is too short to pursue every human act to its most remote consequences; 'for want of a nail, a kingdom was lost' is a commentary on fate, not the statement of a major cause of action against a blacksmith.
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God is in the details.
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Races didn't bother the Americans. They were something a lot better than any race. They were a People. They were the first self-constituted, self-declared, self-created People in the history of the world. And their manners were their own business. And so were their politics. And so, but ten times so, were their souls.
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My experience is that you can't possibly win against whatever the tidal wave is that's coming at you.
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What each of us longs for the most is to be both fully known and fully loved. Miraculously, God feels the same way about us. God, too, wants to be fully known and fully loved. God wants this so much that He has promised to knock down every obstacle in the way, enduring even His own death, to be with us, to consummate this love.
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That love of the practice of ending suffering will probably be all of the awakening that you would ever desire.
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There is always sleaze in the news. And you know what? The news is always a combination of things that are interesting and things that are important.
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I feel like we were the last generation, and there's this big divide before and after the 1990s. I feel sorry for the kids today. It's all too much.
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In general, the more food we eat in its natural state - without additives - and the less it is refined, the healthier it will be for us. Food can affect the mind, and deficiencies of certain elements in the body can promote mental depression.
