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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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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This is my letter to the World That never wrote to Me - The simple News that Nature told - With tender MajestyHer Message is committed To Hands I cannot see - For love of Her - Sweet - countrymen - Judge tenderly - of Me
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Everything that's created comes out of silence. Your thoughts emerge from the nothingness of silence. Your words come out of this void. Your very essence emerged from emptiness. All creativity requires some stillness.
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I admit that some of my ideas may have turned out to be pessimistic in nature.
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Achilles glared at him and answered, "Fool, prate not to me about covenants. There can be no covenants between men and lions, wolves and lambs can never be of one mind, but hate each other out and out an through. Therefore there can be no understanding between you and me, nor may there be any covenants between us, till one or other shall fall.
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A slave is one who waits for someone to come and free him.
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We are not free to break our covenants and escape the consequences.
