Abraham H. Cannon Quotes
At a priesthood meeting... the strongest language in regard to Plural Marriage was used that I ever heard, and among other things it was stated that all men in position who would not observe and fulfill that law should be removed from their places.
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One of the prices that we pay for integration was the disintegration of the black community.
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Having my own family has made me realise there's more to life than chasing the next job.
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No, I am not a homosexual. If I were a homosexual, I would hope I would have the courage to say so. What's cruel is that you are forcing me to say I am not a homosexual. This means you are putting homosexuals down. I don't want to do that.
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The black community now in many ways divided itself the way the larger white community divides itself, over class issues. And that race is no longer the bond that it once was. That's one of the prices you pay for progress.
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If you don't have anything nice to say, don't say it at all. And if you do have to say it, make it really funny so I can screenshot it and save it for later.
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I think I learned about the relationship between books and life from Margaret Mitchell.
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Now, I love playing moms who can't hide their paranoia.
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It would be a sad story to get rid of religious belief, national identity, family, and even sexual identity. That's not freedom.
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During my life, I have had a few nightmares which happened to me while I was wide awake. One of them was the National Republican Convention in San Francisco, which produced the greatest disaster the Republican Party has ever known - Nominee Barry Goldwater.
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It should not be the government running the economy.
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When I was 5 years old, my mother read me 'Gone With The Wind' at night, before I went to bed. I remember her reading almost all year.
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God made the world for us to live together in peace and not fight.
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I'm convinced that what kids need today are parents - not buddies. They need someone who will exercise mature judgment.
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I would never go travelling on my own. Some people like to go backpacking alone, but there's no way I would do that, even if you paid me - I just don't see the point. If I discover something beautiful, for me it's very important to be able to share it with someone and not just see it for myself.
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At the end of the day, I stand by who I am. I'm a good person.
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Within my social circle, there is a large group of people who will take bitcoin as legal tender; like, you can go to them and settle debts in Bitcoin, and they will happily take it.
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Institutional Buddhism has been conspicuously ready to accept or ignore the inequalities and tyrannies of whatever political system it found itself under. This can be death to Buddhism, because it is death to any meaningful function of compassion.
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You have the power to remind us all that human dignity is not just a universal aspiration, but a human right.
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I wasn't ever anybody who had a political thing against marriage, but I just thought, 'Why would I want to do that?'
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Law enforcement agents need to be vetted more thoroughly and psychologically and emotionally to see who they are, if they're really built for fairness in all communities.
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'Drawn & Quarterly' has always given me complete editorial control over my books and comics, so any decision about what to include or exclude from the book was my own.
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All truth is worth knowing and labouring after. No one can tell to what useful results the discovery of even the smallest portion of truth may lead.
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I don't have a lot of regrets in my life.
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At a priesthood meeting... the strongest language in regard to Plural Marriage was used that I ever heard, and among other things it was stated that all men in position who would not observe and fulfill that law should be removed from their places.
