Russell M. Nelson (Russell Marion Nelson Sr.) Quotes
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For the bureaucrat, the world is a mere object to be manipulated by him.
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I grew up on the edge of a national park in Canada - timberwolves, creeks, snow drifts.
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I was a huge fan of comedy in high school.
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I want to be respected as an actor. There's my ego. But I don't have a great need to be liked by an audience.
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I consider myself very lucky, essentially - I was put into a pop group even though my musical taste was very niche before.
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I was on morning TV for 10 years in Chicago.
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The only way to generate sustained exponential growth is to make whatever you're making sufficiently good.
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The crowd's a really powerful force on the Internet, and people finally understand how to harness that.
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I was wired to be intense. I don't think that's ever going to change.
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I am a toxico-nutritional neuro-epidemiologist. It's the study of neurological disorders caused by a mixture of toxins and malnutrition using epidemiological methods... We are just three or four in the world, even fewer than sword swallowers.
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Universal orthodoxy is enriched by every new discovery of truth: what at first appeared universal, by wishing to stand still, sooner or later becomes a sect.
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My background was fairly conservative, and I think there's a strong notion of duty in a background like that, and I don't think that's always helpful.
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I dont think you can look for love. All you can do is get yourself in a situation where you dont discourage something that may be rather nice.
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Because if you weren't born white, you were forced to see differences; or if you weren't born what they called normal, or if you got injured, then you were left to explore the world of the different.
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The saving power of the cross does not depend on faith being addded to it; its saving power is such that faith flows from it
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To kidnap and kill anyone is inexcusable. But it is repugnant to commit such a crime against a woman who has spent most of her life working for the good of the people of Iraq,
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How do people come up with a date and a time to take life from another man? Who made them God?
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For years, I've pushed the idea of a column compilation book mainly because it would be easy - I could just staple 'em all together. But publishers have been resistent, feeling the material dates.
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Over the years, I think I've matured in my spiritual evolution and development to understand a bit more than the narrow religious thinking - to move beyond that through a sort of perfection of the grandiose nature of the universe, and how perfect it is it in its sense and how satisfied we should all be in our place in that.
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In Israel, there's a lot to learn from anyone, because to live there you've got to deal with the truth. Things happen real fast. Your day goes from cool to catastrophic in one second. Israelis know that the cafe you're in could blow up, or the shopping mall, and they rock that.
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How you deal with life’s trials is part of the development of your faith.
