Boyd K. Packer Quotes
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I'm not going to buy my kids an encyclopedia. Let them walk to school like I did.
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No one has to learn to spell to talk, right? You see a little kid holding a conversation with an adult. He probably doesn't know the words he's saying, but he knows where to fit them to make what he's thinking logical to what you're saying.
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I had eleven varsity letters. I loved basketball the best, but cross-country is a little more under your control.
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Most Americans, like most Japanese, view their dogs, cats, and other animal companions as family members, and rightly so.
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Certainly there are great men whose age circumscribes them so completely that we lose interest.
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In trying to scramble out of a hole, it sometimes digs it deeper.
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The typical output deal from a studio is 10 to 14 movies a year.
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You can believe that he was taught to love and respect all mankind - but to fear no man.
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Works of art, in my opinion, are the only objects in the material universe to possess internal order, and that is why, though I don't believe that only art matters, I do believe in Art for Art's sake.
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As a player, you just want to focus on controlling the controllables.
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I've just learned about his illness. Let's hope it's nothing trivial.
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There is no dignity quite so impressive, and no one independence quite so important, as living within your means.
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Politics is my hobby. Smut is my vocation.
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Gospel is just the truth of the word of God. Anybody can sing it, anybody; anybody can perform it.
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'The Ballad of Black Tom' was written, in part, during the latest round of arguments about H. P. Lovecraft's legacy as both a great writer and a prejudiced man. I grew up worshipping the guy, so this issue felt quite personal to me.
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If there's no place in the universe for a man to resist the thieves of freedom and still be called a good man, then I don't think there is any good or evil in the universe.
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When I was a child, I used to think that rabbits were gnomes, and that if I held my breath and stayed quite still, I should see the fairy queen.'. Indicating with a reserved gesture that this was just the sort of loony thing I should have expected her to think as a child, I returned to the point.
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I keep hearing this expletive thing that guns don't kill people, but people kill people.
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Casting the body's vest aside,My soul into the boughs does glide.
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It is never my custom to use words lightly. If twenty-seven years in prison have done anything to us, it was to use the silence of solitude to make us understand how precious words are and how real speech is in its impact on the way people live and die.
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Judges can determine fair justice far better than any inane federal mandate.
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'Boast not my fall (he cried), insulting foe! Thou by some other shalt be laid as low; Nor think to die dejects my lofty mind; All that I dread is leaving you behind! Rather than so, ah let me still survive, And burn in Cupid's flames - but burn alive.'
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It is impossible to objectively define how free a market is. This is a political definition. Government is always involved, and those free marketers are as politically motivated as anyone.
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We are not free to break our covenants and escape the consequences.
