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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I had been keeping an off eye on the advertising field, thinking I might become an idea man and a copywriter.
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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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Basketball paid for four years of my education, and I am so proud of that.
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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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We are choosing to invest in health now for a variety of reasons. Advances in technology hold huge promise for changing people's lives globally -- both those who are sick and those who are well. Peter Neupert brings a mix of business leadership and expertise in the health field to guide Microsoft's work in this area.
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The Olympics are every four years and I think every athlete who competes in the Olympics wants the gold medal, and I think that's what the World Cup is for a rugby player - it's the gold medal.
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I think you always want to be open to things... it's just the matter of finding something I believe in, finding a character I believe in, and I think that's the way it should always be. I'm looking for things that excite me.
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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.
