David A. Bednar Quotes
The spirit of revelation is available to every person who receives by proper priesthood authority the saving ordinances of baptism by immersion for the remission of sins and the laying on of hands for the gift of the Holy Ghost - and who is acting in faith to fulfill the priesthood injunction to 'receive the Holy Ghost.'
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I don't really measure success by anything other than if I am happy. That is success to me. Am I happy waking up every morning? And despite the challenges of running my own business, do I look forward to going to work? Absolutely.
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One of the greatest boons that can ever come to a human being is to be born on a farm and reared in the country. Self-reliance and grit are oftenest country-bred.
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Sometimes a chord on a guitar will somehow spur some thought in your head, and you will write a song about it.
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A boy doesn't have to go to war to be a hero; he can say he doesn't like pie when he sees there isn't enough to go around.
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My voice is not good enough for me to sing a song.
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It's no easy task to either make money online as a publisher or to advertise your product in a world where attention is so fleeting and divided.
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To plunder, to slaughter, to steal, these things they misname empire; and where they make a wilderness, they call it peace.
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None of our family businesses were focused on technology. It was '93 when I came out of law school, and the Internet was taking hold. So I started New World Ventures.
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Americans are very easygoing people. If the added attention and great visibility that I have been able to generate can help open doors and expose more Chinese to American values and the American way of life, that is great.
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I'm not interested in celebrity.
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I see no marks of Wordsworths style of writing or style of thinking in my own work, yet Wordsworth is a constant presence when I write about human beings and their relations to the natural world.
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I don't think you'll ever get enough picking.
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I've made it abundantly clear that I think that marriage is between a man and a woman.
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The more I see of democracy the more I dislike it. It just brings everything down to the mere vulgar level of wages and prices, electric light and water closets, and nothing else.
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I am not interested in the afterlife. Religion is supposed to be about losing your ego, not preserving it eternally in optimum conditions.
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I wanted to be a comedian, and this is what I'm doing. If I can keep this going, I'm happy.
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Usually in features, I'm the lead. I consider the director the captain, but I consider myself the first mate, and it's up to me to keep in contact with the heart of the crew.
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The countenances of children, like those of animals, are masks, not faces, for they have not yet developed a significant profile of their own.
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You can't really divorce yourself and your life from the world you live in.
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Let's address the issue of how America deals with the Iraqis and how we deal with the region, recognize the fact that this is a misadventure, which it is in our interest to terminate and not to repeat. That's a rather important conclusion to draw, and a very important lesson.
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Television has become the government, priest, psychotherapist - the legitimiser of our egos.
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If you've ever questioned your faith, you're going to question it when you are burying your own children.
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Nothing is more destructive of individual character than for a man to lose all faith in his own abilities for the prosecution of his work.
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The spirit of revelation is available to every person who receives by proper priesthood authority the saving ordinances of baptism by immersion for the remission of sins and the laying on of hands for the gift of the Holy Ghost - and who is acting in faith to fulfill the priesthood injunction to 'receive the Holy Ghost.'
