Russell M. Nelson (Russell Marion Nelson Sr.) Quotes
Our busy lives force us to focus on things we do from day to day. But the development of character comes only as we focus on who we really are.

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He thinks that Schiller and St Paul were just two Partisan Review editors.
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We can't continue with a justice of vengeance. Peace will require us to accept a certain degree of impunity; it's inevitable.
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Even before it opened its retail arm, Beigh was renowned among pashmina cognoscenti for the quality and complexity of the work produced in its workshop, a large, airy, sunlit rectangle of a room directly across from its second-floor shop.
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If you were to ask me to choose between democratic values and wealth, power, prosperity and fame, I will very easily and without any doubt choose democratic values.
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We all understand it's a privilege just to be playing in this league.
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When people recognise me they just kind of go 'Hi how are you,' really kind of cool you know.
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What St. Francis and St. Dominic have done, that, by God's grace, I will do.
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The past is the beginning of the beginning and all that is and has been is but the twilight of the dawn.
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In the real world, immeasurable hurt is caused by terrorists based in Pakistan who attack countries like India.
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Girls are the best readers in the world. Reading is really a way of kind of escaping so deeply into yourself and pursuing your own thoughts within the construct of a story.
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I'm very lucky to have a job that I love.
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I am guilty of asking the Senate for pork and proud of the Senate for giving it to me.
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The most underused, under-appreciated group of people in the world is our youth.
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The press called me a billionaire, and my wife came up and said I must be squirreling money away.
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Certainly situation comedy is harder than people who are good at it make it look, but it's fun to do something different.
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I don't think anybody is a poet 24/7, only in those rare moments when a person is producing a poem.
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The Amen of nature is always a flower.
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If I wrote in Jacob Riis' time, I'd be writing about teeming slums in our cities and kids dying of tuberculosis or outhouses in Philadelphia or kids losing their toes because they were living in homes without heat. He took on a battle in 'The Battle with the Slums' - and we won.
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I only work with people I like.
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I think fear of the unknown is the scariest thing.
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When you have a book as material as it is, it's a lot easier to create a character because you have so many resources to draw upon when acting.
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Being funny is everything to me.
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We are what we seem to be.
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Our busy lives force us to focus on things we do from day to day. But the development of character comes only as we focus on who we really are.