Russell M. Nelson (Russell Marion Nelson Sr.) Quotes
Obedience allows God’s blessings to flow without constraint. He will bless His obedient children with freedom from bondage and misery. And He will bless them with more light.
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I was able to really see that connection as a football player where success requires a lot of hard work and effort, physically and mentally.
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A perfectly straight shot with a big club is a fluke.
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I have odd thumbs that are extremely flexible. I can bend them quite far down the back side of my hand, basically the opposite side you'd even try to attempt bending your thumb. Because of that, I'm a very good thumb wrestler.
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In America it's live by the sword of freedom of expression and be will to die by it as well.
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You gotta take care of the people that are part of the foundation. If you don't, it crumbles.
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Between Prince and my dad's fusion-jazz records, I didn't have a choice in being funky.
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Sometimes when you're making more errors you want to pull back, but I just need to keep going forward.
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It's really hard not to fall into that trap of insecurity when you're a model. Beforehand, I never looked at myself in a huge monitor with 30 people around it every day.
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It's better to be skinny than to be fat.
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I'm not hard to get along with.
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After things started to happen here, my choice of material was extremely limited. It was a weird situation.
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I am the sort of athlete who participates in a lot of winter sports - basketball, for example, is an activity that I'll spend many hours a week watching.
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Some people try to find things in this game that don't exist but football is only two things - blocking and tackling.
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Vegetables deplete soil. They're extractive. If soil has a bank account, vegetables make the largest withdrawals.
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My goal has been to encourage jointness, to push people to think of affiliations rather than to operate as solo entrepreneurs.
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Perfect freedom is as necessary to the health and vigor of commerce as it is to the health and vigor of citizenship.
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I never drink water. I'm afraid it will become habit-forming.
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The artist's business requires his involvement in practically everything. He works in reference, not to a section of the world, but to the whole world.
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Sustainability is a seemingly laudable goal - it tells us we need to live within our means, whether economic, ecological, or political - but it's insufficient for uncertain times. How can we live within our means when those very means can change, swiftly and unexpectedly, beneath us?
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As parents we're not nearly as computer literate as our children are.
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In the past two decades it has become widely recognized that when adults or children are too skittish or shut down to derive comfort from human beings, relationships with other mammals can help. Dogs and horses and even dolphins offer less complicated companionship while providing the necessary sense of safety. Dogs and horses, in particular, are now extensively used to treat some groups of trauma patients.
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Obedience allows God’s blessings to flow without constraint. He will bless His obedient children with freedom from bondage and misery. And He will bless them with more light.
