Russell M. Nelson (Russell Marion Nelson Sr.) Quotes
They climbed the ladder of learning only to find it leaning against the wrong wall.
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Charity is a very personal equation, like we say charity begins at home. It starts with your immediate help in the house: the people who work for you.
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I have my own people that make my clothes because it's hard for me to find stuff that fits.
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Mr. President, prime ministers, let us have ambitions: ambitions to move beyond the violence and occupation, to the day when two states, Palestine and Israel, can live together side by side in peace and security.
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Thou shalt not give birth reluctantly.
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I think I had the most fun making a movie with 'Dedication,' just because you knew that it was a passion project for everyone involved. We had X amount of days to shoot New York in the cold. No trailers. Just sort of kind of doing it guerilla style in a way.
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I try to write stories that will attract younger readers and make them feel part of a wider readership. I do not feel able to write books that are about, or even for, teenagers; and I am inclined to be suspicious of books which 'target' them.
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Yes, women should be free to cover their faces when walking down the street. But in our schools, hospitals, airports, banks and civil institutions, it is not unreasonable - nor contrary to the teachings of Islam - to expect women to show the one thing that allows the rest of us to identify them... namely, their face.
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When a man is out of sight, it is not too long before he is out of mind.
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His love at once and dread instruct our thought; As man He suffer'd and as God He taught.
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So now I have a collection of poetry by Aaron Neville and I give it to people I want to share it with. I'd like to publish it someday.
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Every child in every neighborhood, of every color, class and background, deserves a school that will help them succeed.
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I get up, go out, and everything is changed. The blood drains from my head, the noise of things bursting, merging, avoiding one another, assails me on all sides, my eyes search in vain for two things alike, each pinpoint of skin screams a different message, I drown in the spray of phenomena.
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A person who believes, as she did, that things fit: that there is a whole of which one is a part, and that in being a part one is whole: such a person has no desire whatever, at any time, to play God. Only those who have denied their being yearn to play at it.
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Every age can be enchanting, provided you live within it.
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I think anybody who looks at my record will say I've been trying to cut government spending and make government live more like families do.
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I live to feel myself in danger.
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One of the greatest features of science is that it doesn't matter where you were born, and it doesn't matter what the belief systems of your parents might have been: If you perform the same experiment that someone else did, at a different time and place, you'll get the same result.
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I wouldn't write about something that I haven't experienced myself.
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I think a businessman can be an artist just as much as a writer or a sculptor, so I'm real proud of what the company has become.
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The mentality has taken over because of the way we've promoted things. It's been accepted, to live with fear, and to fear that it's going to be terrible, prepare for the worst. The meat and potato of our existence right now is influenced by what happened after 9/11 - we put our thinking into protecting borders.
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A President cannot always be popular.
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Banning sports is a ludicrous proposition.
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They climbed the ladder of learning only to find it leaning against the wrong wall.
