"You, our youth of today, are among the most illustrious spirits to be born into mortality in any age of the world. Yours is a noble heritage and a wonderful opportunity."

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Source : Harold B. Lee (1973). “Youth & the church”

Harold B. Lee

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“People would always say horror movies always thrive during times of war; that's just what people would say. And I don't know if they thrived during World War II or Vietnam, but I thought that's kind of strange, why would that happen. I don't know if people rearrange their priorities; in good times, they freak out and start pointing the fingers at video games and TV, but when horrible things are happening in the world, it [horror movie] just seems a little ridiculous.”
“Whatever there be of progress in life comes not through adaptation but through daring.”

Source : Henry Miller (1959). “The Henry Miller Reader”, p.251, New Directions Publishing
“Money and stuff aren't what makes us happy. It's strong connections within families and friends, communities of people that truly care about one another.”

Source : "Jayni Chase: Founder, Center for Environmental Education Interview: Chip Comins". Interview with Chip Comins, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.
“Nature in causing reason and the passions to be born at one and the same time apparently wished by the latter gift to distract man from the evil she had done him by the former, and by only permitting him to live for a few years after the loss of his passions seems to show her pity by early deliverance from a life that reduces him to reason as his sole resource.”
“Nature is not static, but causes its own, internally-generated changes - both in climate and in biological systems.”
“The essence of the Way is detachment. And the goal of those who practice is freedom from appearances.”
“We are talking now of summer evenings in Knoxville, Tennessee, in the time that I lived there so successfully disguised to myself as a child.”
“I grew up doing sitcoms and theater and even playing with the Beach Boys, where you're programmed to perform, your body gets into a rhythm and you know it has to perform.”

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