"To Latter-day Saints there can be no objection to the careful and critical study of the scriptures, ancient or modern, provided only that it be an honest study - a search for truth."

-- John Andreas Widtsoe

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“Hillary Clinton has secured her place in history. She is the first woman to lead a major party's quest for the presidency.”

Source : "How Bernie Sanders' Progressive Message Carried His Insurgent Campaign". "All Things Considered", www.npr.org. June 8, 2016.
“My observation is that my dealings with the president on some of the most important issues that the president Donald Trump has to face are as professional and as thoughtful as the American people deserve. The president's handling these duties in a way that I'm incredibly proud of to be part of his team.”
“Lists today are a way of trying to get through the day, because we are losing a sense of time.”
“What we know is the workplace is more demanding than ever before.”

Source : "The Education Week Interview: Margaret Spellings". Interview with Lynn Olson, www.edweek.org. February 9, 2005.
“When artists and philosophers talk only amongst themselves, they ignore the potential of popular culture to become a variety of dialogues with and between everyday people. Its discourse may be productive of desire and pleasure, but popular culture is also a language in which people discuss politics, religion, ethics, and action.”

Source : Brenda Laurel (2001). “Utopian Entrepreneur”, p.11, MIT Press
“Out of many millions of wandering living entities, one who is very fortunate gets an opportunity to associate with a bonafide spiritual master by the grace of Krishna. By the mercy of both Krishna and the spiritual masters, such a person receives the seed of the creeper of devotional service.”
“Since science is essentially objective, involving the study of how things actually are, "materialism" would therefore seem to be its antithesis, since its starting point is the desire to impose upon the natural world a particular and limited way of looking at it.”

Source : Melanie Phillips (2013). “The World Turned Upside Down: The Global Battle over God, Truth, and Power”, p.79, Encounter Books
“Modern totalitarianism can be defined as the establishment, by means of the state of exception, of a legal civil war that allows for the physical elimination not only of political adversaries but of entire categories of citizens who for some reason cannot be integrated into the political system”

Source : Giorgio Agamben (2008). “State of Exception”, p.2, University of Chicago Press

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