Brigham Young Quotes
If you are without bread, how much wisdom can you boast and of what real utility are your talents, if you cannot procure for yourselves and save against a day of scarcity those substances designed to sustain your natural lives?
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I will sign pro life bills. But what people are interested in is what we can do to create jobs, grow the economy, and keep our costs under control.
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Because cheating is easier when we can justify our behavior, people often cheat in small amounts: We can come up with an excuse for stealing Post-It notes, but it is much more difficult to come up with an excuse for taking $10,000 from petty cash.
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The search for the truth is not for the faint hearted.
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You don't particularly want to stay close to your ex-wife. Or why would she be your ex-wife?
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Everyone is going to have to step up to the plate.
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Space exploration is important research to our economic and national defense, and America's space program is a symbol of our success as a scientifically and technologically advanced nation.
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There seems little reason to prescribe anti-depressant medication to any but the most severely depressed patients.
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I'm always flattered when someone thinks of me as a potential commissioner of baseball.
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I was never for Richard Nixon until Watergate.
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I'm belligerent rather than ambitious.
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I don't have anything against my mom, but my family has no emotional connection to each other.
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The threats to privacy in America – from our own government – seem to never end. Does Congress really think they can just stick an ‘oh-by-the-way’ provision in an obscure piece of legislation directing the FAA to clear the way for 30,000 drones to fly over our neighborhoods, and have no one notice?
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Some people are worried about the difference between right and wrong. I'm worried about the difference between wrong and fun.
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If only she could have held on to that day, held on to that moment forever, grasped it in her fists so it wouldn't escape. If only.
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I waste energy on anger rather than investing it in hope.
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I'm always doing comedy and will never hit up a 9-to-5 desk job.
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I came from a mother and father who always made me secure in my beliefs, and that's where the love came from.
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God is His own Design and End, and that there is no other Worthy of Him.
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You need to make things and not be so precious about whether they're any good or not. Because I have a secret for you: they're not good. They're flawed, and you need to find out what the flaws are as fast as possible.
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All of life is the management of risk, not its elimination.
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Many people have their reputations as reporters and analysts because they are on television, batting around conventional wisdom. A lot of these people have never reported a story.
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Aspects that we consider normal today could very well be repugnant in the future - eating animals, for one thing, or abundant choice, or invasive surgery. I was simply trying to demonstrate that what is acceptable today may not be acceptable forever, and vice-versa.
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If you are without bread, how much wisdom can you boast and of what real utility are your talents, if you cannot procure for yourselves and save against a day of scarcity those substances designed to sustain your natural lives?
