"The Lord has never indicated that black skin came because of being less faithful. Now, the Indian; we know why he has changed, don't we? The Book of Mormon tells us that; and he has a dark skin, but he has promise there that through faithfulness, that they all again become a white and delightsome people."

-- LeGrand Richards

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“Words may move but they're never moving fast enough”
“Now here's somebody who wants to smoke a ***** cigarette. If he's caught, he goes to jail. Now is that moral? Is that proper? I think it's absolutely disgraceful that our government, supposed to be our government, should be in the position of converting people who are not harming others into criminals, of destroying their lives, putting them in jail. That's the issue to me. The economic issue comes in only for explaining why it has those effects. But the economic reasons are not the reasons”
“Dorothy Hamill was my big idol as a kid. She'd won the Olympics in 1976. She was America's sweetheart with her personality, her talent, her haircut.”
“The future is very much in our hands--in our actions.”
“It is some kind of miracle that all knitting is constructed of only two stitches: knit and purl. Sure, you throw in some yarn overs, and sometimes you knit the stitches out of order, but when it really comes down to it, knitting is simplicity. The most incredible gossamer lace shawl ... the trickiest aran ... a humble sock ... each just made with knit and purl.”

Source : Stephanie Pearl-McPhee (2012). “At Knit's End: Meditations for Women Who Knit Too Much”, p.11, Storey Publishing
“God gives us humans everything we need to flourish, but he's not the one who's supposed to divvy up the loot. That charge was laid upon us”
“The peace I am thinking of is the dance of an open mind when it engages another equally open one.”

Source : Toni Morrison (2007). “The Dancing Mind”, p.6, Vintage
“I don't have pressure on me. I just put pressure on myself to play hard every day.”

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