David O. McKay Quotes
An Unsatisfied Appetite for Knowledge Means Progress and Is the State of a Normal Mind
Quotes to Explore
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The fondest dream of the information age is to create an archive of all knowledge. You might call it the Alexandrian fantasy, after the great library founded by Ptolemy I in 286 BC.
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Mickey Mouse popped out of my mind onto a drawing pad 20 years ago on a train ride from Manhattan to Hollywood at a time when business fortunes of my brother Roy and myself were at lowest ebb and disaster seemed right around the corner.
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If the perpetrators of the World Trade Center plane crashes had a nuclear weapon, there's no doubt in my mind but that they would've detonated it in New York.
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Love me or hate me, both are in my favour. If you love me, I will always be in your heart, and if you hate me, I will be in your mind.
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All the breaks you need in life wait within your imagination, Imagination is the workshop of your mind, capable of turning mind energy into accomplishment and wealth.
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We all want progress, but if you're on the wrong road, progress means doing an about-turn and walking back to the right road; in that case, the man who turns back soonest is the most progressive.
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I will go to my grave being known as Marge Gunderson. It'll be on my gravestone if I have one. I don't mind that, because it was a great character.
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It was always in the back of my mind while we were working on the first year of 'Rookie' that we'd do a print version at some point.
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The knowledge from an enlightened person breaks on the hard rocks of ignorance.
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For the mind is all the easier to teach before it is set.
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I went on tour with Beyonce before. I wouldn't mind doing something with her.
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So wearing a corset certainly changes your state of mind.
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Knowledge is a polite word for dead but not buried imagination.
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The question of likability is a bit of a puzzler for me. You know, I don't write people with likability in mind. It's more whether or not I find them compelling.
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Study is the bane of childhood, the oil of youth, the indulgence of adulthood, and a restorative in old age.
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If there were teenagers who had a video camera and saw what I did on a daily basis, they'd be bored out of their mind.
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Some sciences need mutual support and assistance to develop. The majority of these are physical sciences. Mutual support has almost no use in other disciplines, such as attainment of intuitive knowledge of God or spiritual progress.
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The greatest preventative to terrorism is Muslim religious literacy.
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I have a lot of friends who are trying to clean up their act, or that are still making trouble for themselves, so I'm definitely well-versed on what goes on in the mind and the heart of a person who self-destructs as their coping mechanism, and also what they're like when you take their preferred substance away.
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Thank you for sneaking your transistor under the pillow as you grew up loving the Tigers. God has a new adventure for me.
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If you don't know the guy on the other side of the world, love him anyway because he's just like you. He has the same dreams, the same hopes and fears. It's one world, pal. We're all neighbors.
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As is natural with contiguous states having like institutions and like aims of advancement and development, the friendship of the United States and Mexico has been constantly maintained.
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An Unsatisfied Appetite for Knowledge Means Progress and Is the State of a Normal Mind
