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One of the most important things a person can learn to do is to make something out of whatever he or she happens to have at the moment.
The figure of Satan and the fires of hell have been demythologized by modern Christian biblical scholars, theologians and philosophers.
If we could do away with traffic accidents, that'd be wonderful. There'd be more than a million people saved every year on this planet.
You have to understand that teaching online is different, just like movies are different from the stage and TV is different from radio.
You know and we have about 60 to 70 percent black men in prison today and it's because of the negativity they have in their own hearts.
But investment in space stimulates society, it stimulates it economically, it stimulates it intellectually, and it gives us all passion.
At the bottom of education, at the bottom of politics, even at the bottom of religion, there must be for our race economic independence.
The greater part of the governments on earth may be termed monarchical aristocracies, or hereditary dominions independent of the people.
Faith draws the poison from every grief, takes the sting from every loss, and quenches the fire of every pain, and only faith can do it.
We must never, in any age or circumstance, let fear and the father of fear (Satan himself) divert us from our faith and faithful living.
In schools where parent involvement is greater, you do have higher achievement levels and better functioning, better performing schools.
If a country puts its entire focus on making sure that the education system improves, then that's the kind of progress that you can see.
Sometimes a simple, almost insignificant gesture on the part of a teacher can have a profound formative effect on the life of a student.
The road to revolution involves openness to the people, not imperviousness to them; it involves communion with the people, not mistrust.
How many times have you noticed that it's the little quiet moments in the midst of life that seem to give the rest extra-special meaning?
I've come up with the theory that the music is within. We don't bring it in; it's already there. We have to figure out how to get it out.
God doesn't care nearly as much about where you have been as He does about where you are and, with His help, where you are willing to go.
We don't want God to remember our sins, so there is something fundamentally wrong in our relentlessly trying to remember those of others.
There is more to us than we know. If we can be made to see it, perhaps for the rest of our lives we will be unwilling to settle for less.
Too often we're happy to receive thanks from the nonprofits we fund, accepting gratitude instead of feedback or performance measurements.
Medical tests have shown that giving stimulates a part of the brain that gives us the same gratification as when we eat food or have sex.
Poetry and I fit together. I can't imagine being without it... It is food and drink, it is all seasons, it is the stuff of all existence.
The unfinished character of human beings and the transformational character of reality necessitate that education be an ongoing activity.
But I'll always love you, and I'll always miss you and I'll never forget that It's okay to put dragons in the jungle and tears on a tiger
The Big Bang banged, and for some reason we’re here. And that’s astonishing. And that we can understand that, that’s the most astonishing.
Without an end to the burning of fossil fuels, coal especially, most of us will live shorter lives. I'm hopeful, but very, very concerned.
In all things that are purely social we can be as separate as the fingers, yet one as the hand in all things essential to mutual progress.
Only when we see that sacred, unadorned child of our devotion-the Babe of Bethlehem-will we know why the giving of gifts is so appropriate
Creativity is good and whatever. But if the children don't know how to read, I don't care how creative you are. You're not doing your job.
If you grew up in a lower-income community, or less well-off, the belief is that the way to change that circumstance is through education.
It doesnt hurt to repeat here the statement, still rejected by many people in spite of its obviousness, that education is a political act.
Because of the increased efficiency of machines, it is getting harder and harder for a human to make a productive contribution to society.
I don't think we will put higher-ed out of business. I think we'll evolve it. More access, higher quality, lower costs, more global reach.
A primary purpose for setting goals is to get you moving in the right direction. When you set goals, you have to keep them always in mind.
You are always wanting miracles; but God sows miracles by handfuls under your feet, and yet you still have people who deny their existence.
For a couple with young children, divorce seldom comes as a "solution" to stress, only as a way to end one form of pain and accept another.
If you try your best to be the best parent you can be, you will have done all that a human being can do and all that God expects you to do.
Dads, is it too bold to hope that our children might have some small portion of the feeling for us that the Divine Son felt for His Father?
Looking at the past must only be a means of understanding more clearly what and who they are so that they can more wisely build the future.
I've found that often, just when you think you've hit a wall, you experience a breakthrough that takes you to new heights in accomplishment
To try to really land a spacecraft really on another world is really difficult, and if we lose that ability, it's going to be heartbreaking.
Some blessings come soon, some come late, and some don't come until heaven; but for those who embrace the gospel of Jesus Christ, they come.
Condemning others as bad or sinful is a way to feel righteous. Such a feeling is a powerful mood alteration and can become highly addictive.
I was a popular professor. My teaching ratings were usually good. I could take complicated subjects and explain them in an entertaining way.
When my first wife & I began the school, we had one main idea: to make the school fit the child - instead of making the child fit the school.
If you truly want to measure the success of a man, you do not measure it by a position he has achieved, but by the obstacles he has overcome.
No one will do for you what you need to do for yourself. We cannot afford to be separate. We have to see that all of us are in the same boat.
The older I get, the more convinced I am that the space between people who are trying their best to understand each other is hallowed ground.
If we want it, we can enjoy the joy of our fidelity to the highest and best that is within us." --sat. afternoon 4/3/10 lds general conference
Recovery begins with embracing our pain and taking the risk to share it with others. We do this by joining a group and talking about our pain.