Excerpts of Citations
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Happiness is a butterfly, which, when pursued, is always just beyond your grasp, but which, if you will sit down quietly, may alight upon you.
~Nathanial Hawthorne
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Education is a continual process of revision.
~Larry Starr
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Art is a lie that makes us realize the truth.
~Pablo Picasso
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Nothing gives a person so much advantage over another as to remain always cool and unruffled under all circumstances.
~Thomas Jefferson
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The guarded degree, the closed corporation, the technical vocabulary, these are the inner redoubt, the inviolable stronghold of usurped authority. Locked safe within the massive and forbidding wall...
~Hugh Nibley
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When angry, count four; when very angry, swear.
~Mark Twain
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In life, we have to be careful to monitor our personal attitude. Are we positive, loyal, and trustworthy in all that we do? Don't be negative. Strengthen and lift those around you. Do not let them ...
~Neal A. Maxwell
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It is not the critic who counts, not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles or where the doer of deeds could have done them better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the ...
~Theodore Roosevelt
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There is nothing that would so weaken my hope and discourage me as to see this people in full fellowship with the world, and receive no more persecution from them because they are one with them.
~Brigham Young
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There is still that same spirit of antagonism existing between truth and error that there was then. Let a man join this Church; probably a good man, and esteemed by his neighbours, and continued s...
~John Taylor
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There was a time when we could walk up and down the streets and tell by the very countenances of men whether they were Latter-day Saints, or not; but can you do it now? You can not, unless you have...
~Joseph F. Smith
from J.D. 11:310 -
When Mormonism finds favor with the wicked in this land it will have gone into the shade; but until the power of the Priesthood is gone, Mormonism will never become popular with the wicked.
~Brigham Young
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I look forward to no distant period when this people, called Latter-day Saints, will be obliged to sustain themselves. We must prepare to gather around us every necessary of life, to make every imp...
~Brigham Young
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I would like to see the people take a course to make their own clothing, make their own machinery, their own knives and their own forks, and everything else we need, for the day will come when we w...
~Heber C. Kimball
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And with regard to the conduct of this people--if an angel should come here and speak his feelings as plainly as I do, I think he would say, 'O, Latter-day Saints' why don't you see, wh...
~Brigham Young
from J.D. 19:93 -
All right, let me see if I understand the logic of this correctly. We are going to ignore the United Nations in order to make clear to Saddam Hussein that the United Nations cannot be ignored. We'r...
~PETER FREUNDLICH