"If we are to achieve long-range goals, we must learn to set up and accomplish short-range goals that will move us along the way. If we do not consciously select our goals, we may be controlled by goals not of our own choosing - goals imposed by outside pressures (such as the expectations of others) or by our habits (such as procrastination) or by our desire for the approval of the world."

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Ezra Taft Benson

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“The whole point of faith, in fact, is to believe regardless of the evidence, which is the very antithesis of science.”

Source : Michael Shermer (2003). “How We Believe: Science, Skepticism, and the Search for God”, p.407, Macmillan
“You're going to fall, but you got to stand.”
“The dubbing of the music and effects is really incredible today. You're feeling gun shots. I mean, it's not the way people say it is, but the gunshot sounds real. And cars sound real. Among the many things in the evolution (of movies) is to make the sound in the movie incredible. That's what you feel.”

Source : "Interview With Exit Wounds Stars Steven Seagal, Jill Hennessy and Producer Joel Silver". Interview with Steve Head, www.ign.com. March 15, 2001.
“Consider Christmas - could Satan in his most malignant mood have devised a worse combination of graft plus bunkum than the system whereby several hundred million people get a billion or so gifts for which they have no use, and some thousands of shop clerks die of exhaustion while selling them, and every other child in the Western world is made ill from overeating - all in the name of the lowly Jesus?”
“Faith is not complacent; faith is action. You donâ€™t have faith and wait. When you have faith, you move.”
“If you don't transform your suffering, you'll transmit it.”
“True greatness...always requires regular, consistent, small, and sometimes ordinary and mundane steps over a long period of time.”
“I do not think that tragedy is our natural fate and I do not live in chronic dread of disaster. It is no happiness, but suffering that I consider unnatural. It is not success, but calamity that I regard as the abnormal exception in Human Life.”

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