Russell M. Nelson (Russell Marion Nelson Sr.) Quotes
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I am here because I think it was a terrible sin of the west to allow those years of war.
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I have always wanted to act ever since I was a little girl. I would put a blanket under my shirt and pretend that I was pregnant. Then, I would go through childbirth.
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I like to think of myself as very loyal, and I love everyone I surround myself with, whether they're friends or girlfriends or whatever.
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I know it's a cliche, but the whole family is just whacked. I mean, we're all out of our minds. They're the funniest, most eccentric bizarre people I've ever met, my siblings.
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We live in a society where nothing is sacred.
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One of the great things personally coming to Hawai'i is my friendship of Jim Nicholson.
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Heroes do extraordinary things. What I did was not an extraordinary thing. It was normal.
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Robert F. Kennedy used to say, 'Some men see things as they are and ask why. Others dream things that never were and ask why not?'; that outlook has become a far too common and destructive approach to interpreting the law
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This is a terrible place to die in.Where’s a good one?
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'And if it's proud to have a heart that never hardens, and a temper that never tires, and a touch that never hurts,' Miss Jenny struck in, flushed, 'she is proud.'
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Most of the films I've done were ruined in the postproduction, not during filming.
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Few of the early houses in New England were painted, or colored, as it was called, either without or within. Painters do not appear in any of the early lists of workmen.
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Dogs get lost hundreds of times and no one ever notices it or sends an account of it to a scientific magazine.
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Once a bishop is appointed, in terms of governance, we are semi-autonomous. It's not like we are branch managers of a bank or something.
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I'd love to be a diva. But I'd then have to send so many apology notes for my abhorrent behaviour.
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We need to accept that the commandments of God aren't just a long list of good ideas. They aren't 'life hacks' from an Internet blog or motivational quotes from a Pinterest board.
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I can't tell you what your purpose is, that's got to come from you.
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Material objects give rise to physical happiness, while spiritual development gives rise to mental happiness. Since we experience both physical and mental happiness, we need both material and spiritual development. This is why, for our own good and that of society we need to balance material progress with inner development.
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To argue about justice is unavoidably to argue about virtues, about substantive moral and even spiritual questions.
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A lot of people don't have near the amount of success as I've been blessed to have, and it's all about working hard and hoping that continues.
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I didn't know anything until December 2004 when I went to purchase a vehicle and was told there was a foreclosure on my credit and I wouldn't be able to get the car. I've still got a red flag on my credit.
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This could never be a crime in any society which deems himself enlightened.
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Faith is the antidote for fear.
