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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When good friends praise a gifted person he often appears to be delighted with them out of politeness and goodwill, but in reality he feels indifferent.
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It is no good hearing an inner voice or getting an inner prompting if you do not immediately act on that inner prompting.
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Heaven, Kiwi thought, would be the reading room of a great library. But it would be private. Cozy. You wouldn't have to worry about some squeaky-shoed librarian turning the lights off on you or gauging your literacy by reading the names on your book spines, and there wouldn't be a single other patron. The whole place would hum with a library's peace, filtering softly over you like white bars of light.
