L. Tom Perry Quotes
Prayer endows us with the power to draw near to our Eternal Father. How important it is, then, that one of our fundamental teachings to our children is how to pray.
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The reason for not getting married was that I just didn't have a partner to get married to. Climbing mountains was more attractive to me than marriage, or other fun things like that.
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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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I do Athlete Devotion throughout all my fight camps. I am a Christian, so I fight with God first, and I have my devotions with me everywhere I go.
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I think that black people, to a degree, need to have a certain level of dexterity. If we want to be at the highest level of whatever our field is, we have to be able to navigate both worlds. We all just know that you gotta be able to put that suit on and have a conversation with people that don't look like you or your family.
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Trying to think about the rest of the team over myself or my scoring is something that I never really had to do before.
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If Joy Behar or Sherri Shepherd was a dude, they'd be off TV. They're not funny enough for dudes. What if Roseanne Barr was a dude? Think we'd know who she was?
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If someone has failed, that is not a deficiency for me. I think that he has more motivation. I've seen many examples where someone was successful first and failed later and failed first and then succeeded. If they failed in an honest way, I don't see it as a deficiency.
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Fiction about mining has a long tradition - Emile Zola's 'Germinal' and Upton Sinclair's 'King Coal' come to mind - and most readers will be aware of the industry's harsh conditions.
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I'm associated with gospel music in the minds of millions of people.
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All my friends are like, 'Can you be on my side in the zombie apocalypse?' and I'm like, 'I got this.'
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I am surrounded by great people.
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If you're losing, just be a man; be a man and lose as a man.
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I'm a big believer in the power of visualizations. And so are neuroscientists. Numerous studies have proven how merely imagining positive circumstances sends blood flowing from negative brain regions to positive ones.
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I am a leader in my own world. That's enough for me.
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Corporate nationalism to me is a little bit like what would have happened if Hitler had won. It's scary stuff. It's totalitarianism in a different from, under a different flavour.
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The power of forgiveness is huge; it is really big, and it can save this world.
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Everybody's social life in Jordan revolves around family.
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My mom is painfully sweet; she's from Nebraska.
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I believe that when Paul Martin cancelled affordable housing across this country it produced a dramatic rise in homelessness and deaths due to homelessness and I've always said I hold him responsible for that.
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Privateers, military contractors - these aren't pirates. They have bosses. Real pirates are sellswords on missions of their own making.
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As far as intellectual training was concerned, my nine years from seven to sixteen were practically wasted.
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I firmly believe caretaking the soul is incredibly important for happiness.
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My father was a statesman, I am a political woman. My father was a saint. I am not.
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Prayer endows us with the power to draw near to our Eternal Father. How important it is, then, that one of our fundamental teachings to our children is how to pray.
