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Oliver Cowdery

"I have not come to seek place, nor to interfere with the business and calling of those men who have borne the burden since the death of Joseph. I throw myself at your feet, and wish to be one of your number, and be a mere member of the Church, and my mere asking to be baptized is an end to all pretensions to authority."

Source : "Report to Presidents Brigham Young, Heber C. Kimball, Willard Richards and the Authorities of the Church", statement upon requesting rebaptism in the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, April 5, 1849.

Oliver Cowdery

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“A professor is not one who knows, but one who professes to know, and [thus] is constantly in the position of inviting challenge. . . . He professes publicly where everyone is invited to come and challenge, [and] at any time he must be willing and able to defend it openly against all comers. The degree is originally a chivalric device-a gauntlet of defiance to all rivals-and not a safe rampart or dug-out for a scholar to hide behind in safe immunity from any challenge.”
“Fear is the strong passion; it is with fear that you must trifle, if you wish to taste the intensest joys of living.”
“Where you raise your children isn't as important as how you raise your children.”

Source : "Ryan Phillippe and Terrance Howard talk Crash". MovieWeb Interview, movieweb.com. May 05, 2005.
“I'd rather look good in my coffin than bad in my coffin.”
“...I like Dr.Ducks Ax Wax ....”
“Our world and our lives have become increasingly interdependent, so when our neighbour is harmed, it affects us too. Therefore we have to abandon outdated notions of 'them' and 'us' and think of our world much more in terms of a great 'US', a greater human family.”
“I think you too recognize the important relationship between philosophy and art, and it is just this relationship that most painters deny. The great masters do grasp it, unconsciously; but I believe that a painter's conscious spiritual knowledge will have a much greater influence upon his art, and that it would be due only to a weakness in him, or lack of genius, should this spiritual knowledge be harmful to his art...”
“I'm one of those freaky people that actually reads books.”

Source : Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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