D. Todd Christofferson Quotes
The greatest good we can do in helping others become what they can become will be to lead them to the Savior.
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Don't go into any store that features shopping bags that can stand on their own accord in the middle of a table. This sort of shopping bag denotes prices that will start chipping into your children's college education fund. Avoid it.
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Growth is painful. Change is painful. But, nothing is as painful as staying stuck where you do not belong.
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Shareholders need to have a real interest in the companies they own. Too many are simply too busy - they are asleep at the wheel.
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The search for knowledge is a long and difficult task.
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Building a better you is the first step to building a better America.
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On the one hand, the rich look askance at our continuing poverty - on the other, they warn us against their own methods.
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I do love traveling, so I've been able to travel a lot.
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I think Ingmar Bergman, Francoise Truffaut - all these people created images in my mind, beautiful pictures, I loved what was known at that time as the foreign film.
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The mere fact that so many continue to rise, year after year, out of just such conditions as you may think are fatal to your advancement, ought to convince you that you also can conquer your environment.
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Time is the friend of the wonderful company, the enemy of the mediocre.
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The nation which forgets its defenders will be itself forgotten.
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If we get a few solid festival shows then I will have no problem booking the lads for as many quality club shows around them to make a nice tour come together.
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Thought is the labor of the intellect, reverie is its pleasure.
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You don't have to find out what someone's mechanical abilities are. All those factors are already a known commodity. I've seen teams win championships and have their entire team quit the next day because they weren't happy.
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Because I've done a lot of theater, I know what power is and how megalomaniacs are, since I've certainly played some.
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The Cistercians do not eat meat... Yet they keep pigs to the number of many thousands, and sell the bacon - though perhaps not quite all of it. The heads, legs, and feet they neither give away, throw away, nor sell. What becomes of them God knows.
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We think that democracy can change a lot of things, but we're being fooled, because democracy is not the election. We've been taught that democracy is having elections. And it isn't. Elections are the most horrendous aspect of democracy. It's the most mundane, trivial, disappointing, dirty aspect.
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I first met Jimbo Wales, the face of Wikipedia, when he came to speak at Stanford.
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When you're seventeen years old, green and inexperienced, you're grateful for any guidance and direction you can get.
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About the only thing that I have - or had, because it's failing me lately - is my memory. I had a really good memory. I was always terribly protective of that fact.
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I don't really design for myself. It would be very limiting.
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If a man has his eyes bound, you can encourage him as much as you like to stare through the bandage, but he'll never see anything
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The greatest good we can do in helping others become what they can become will be to lead them to the Savior.
