Heber J. Grant Quotes
Let every man feel that he is the architect and builder of his own life, and that he proposes to make a success of it by working.
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Sometimes love is stronger than a man's convictions.
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I wish I could fill every young man who reads these pages with an utter dread and horror of poverty. I wish I could make you so feel its shame, its constraint, its bitterness that you would make vows against it.
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Man's shortcomings and sins are all due to substance of the body and not to its form, while all his merits are exclusively due to his form.
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The American Dream is that any man or woman, despite of his or her background, can change their circumstances and rise as high as they are willing to work.
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Scientology is the study of knowingness. It increases one's knowingness, but if a man were totally aware of what was going on around him, he would find it relatively simple to handle any outnesses in that.
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I don't believe in alcohol. It's a sort of a medicinal necessity for the human condition, none of that stuff. I'm not a gambling man.
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Shame is the feeling you have when you agree with the woman who loves you that you are the man she thinks you are.
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I wish I didn't have to perform 'Iron Man' every night.
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A little jewellery on a man is OK, although he should never wear too much. Every man should always have a great watch.
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What we prefer to do is operate our investment bank in a way that is like what investment banks used to be, which is a middle man - someone who is here to match people who need capital with people who have capital - and not position ourselves at the center of that by taking big positions on a trading stance.
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I was into Spider Man when I was a kid and that was the only comic I've ever read.
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Man may be considered as having a twofold origin - natural, which is common and the same to all - patronymic, which belongs to the various families of which the whole human race is composed.
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A man can be happy with any woman, as long as he does not love her.
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Man is unique not because he does science, and his is unique not because he does art, but because science and art equally are expressions of his marvelous plasticity of mind.
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Every young man or woman should weigh the matter well before concluding that a college education is out of the question.
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Pride and excess bring disaster for man.
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It is all one to me if a man comes from Sing Sing Prison or Harvard. We hire a man, not his history.
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In the '50s and '60s, the life of a gay man was a secret. Homosexuality was illegal, so you didn't draw attention to yourself.
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To understand everything is to forgive everything.
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And he that strives to touch the stars, Oft stumbles at a straw.
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A vocation makes us unthinking; that is its greatest blessing. For it is a bulwark behind which we are permitted to withdraw whencommonplace doubts and cares assail us.
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I favor massive civil disobedience, among other things. It is not the only thing that is used to protest any grievance in society. But it is one of the most effective under certain conditions.
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Let every man feel that he is the architect and builder of his own life, and that he proposes to make a success of it by working.
