"Indolent and unworthy the beggar may beâ€”but that is not your concern: It is better, said Joseph Smith, to feed ten impostors than to run the risk of turning away one honest petition."

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Source : Hugh Nibley (1989). “Approaching Zion”, Shadow Mountain

Hugh Nibley

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“This argument [that life is too improbable to have arisen by chance] comes up repeatedly: its latest manifestation is Hoyle's discussion of the likelihood of a wind blowing through a junkyard assembling a Boeing 707 [sic]. What is wrong with it? Essentially, it is that no biologist imagines that complex structures arise in a single step.”

Source : "The Problems of Biology". Book by John Maynard Smith, p. 49, 1986.
“Justification and regeneration are simultaneous. The pardoned sinner becomes a child of God in justification.”
“We go see theater, we take in art, because it makes us feel.”

Source : "Steve Kazee, ‘Once’ Star, Hits New York’s 54 Below With Original Alt-Country Show". Interview with Curtis M. Wong, www.huffingtonpost.com. May 10, 2013.
“The Barack Obama Administration has prosecuted more whistleblowers than all previous administrations combined. That's a staggering record. And it comes from a president who said that he's going to have one of the most transparent administrations ever.”

Source : Source: www.progressive.org
“Never forget why you're really doing what you're doing.”

Source : Derek Sivers (2015). “Anything You Want: 40 Lessons for a New Kind of Entrepreneur”, p.31, Penguin
“The truth dazzles gradually, or else the world would be blind.”
“The nation relies upon public discussion as one of the indispensable means to attain correct solutions to problems of social welfare. Curtailment of free speech limits this open discussion. Our whole history teaches that adjustment of social relations through reason is possible when free speech is maintained.”
“I may be wrong, but it seems rare in our age to find a widely praised person whose own mouth is not the source of that praise.”

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