Boyd K. Packer Quotes
Do you realize how marvelous it is that you can call upon the Atonement? The Lord effected the Atonement for our sakes. And there isn’t anything that you can’t repent from and that you can’t be rescued from if you will repent and be determined to make the decision.
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To me, presentations are the most powerful device. You can't really name a movement that didn't start with the spoken word.
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The winner of the hoop race will be the first to realize her dream, not society's dream, her own personal dream.
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Working with Tyler Perry has been a wonderful experience. Everything he touches turns to gold, it seems like.
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I'm a fighter, and I don't take no for an answer.
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Every sentence spoken by Napoleon, and every line of his writing, deserves reading, as it is the sense of France.
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One extends one's limits only by exceeding them.
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My last divorce was in '68. What made it come to a head was a promise. See, I had promised her that the next year I wouldn't work as much. But then I got in trouble with the IRS, and I had to continue working just as much to pay the government. So she said I lied, which is something I never did.
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The herd seek out the great, not for their sake but for their influence; and the great welcome them out of vanity or need.
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I had a chance to play for the Cuban national team during the 2009 World Baseball Classic, but at the time I never thought about leaving Cuba.
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Kids really have a lot more power than they think they have. They have the power to change the world. And they should know it.
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Indigestion is charged by God with enforcing morality on the stomach.
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Nudity in a picture is such a delicate thing, and it is so rarely right. But it can be right if it's done by people with beautiful vision and if it becomes part of the melody of the situation. The body, after all, is a beautiful and secret thing.
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It is not industry, but idleness, that is degrading.
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Others, one suspects, are afraid that the crossing of space, and above all contact with intelligent but nonhuman races, may destroy the foundations of their religious faith. They may be right, but in any event their attitude is one which does not bear logical examination - for a faith which cannot survive collision with the truth is not worth many regrets.
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My great comfort is, that the temporary celebrity I have wrung from the world has been in the very teeth of all opinions and prejudices. I have flattered no ruling powers; I have never concealed a single thought that tempted me.
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I spent many a summer early morning with the radio very low, half sleeping and half listening.
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When I came home for the summer after my first year of college, I told my mother that my best friend and I were driving to California. She laughed out loud - 2,000 miles in a what? Well, my best friend had an old Chevy. What could go wrong?
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For some reason, comedians are still children. The social skills somehow never reach us, so we say exactly what we think without weighing the results.
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Who waite for dead men shall goe long barefoote.
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To work effectively as an agent of change in a pluralistic society, it is necessary to be able to connect with people different from oneself.
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Being alive and understanding that and making the decision to actually live take a lot of courage.
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Do you realize how marvelous it is that you can call upon the Atonement? The Lord effected the Atonement for our sakes. And there isn’t anything that you can’t repent from and that you can’t be rescued from if you will repent and be determined to make the decision.
