"Early readers assumed the Book of Mormon people ranged up and down North and South America from upstate New York to Chili. A close reading of the text reveals it cannot sustain such an expansive geography."

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Source : Richard Lyman Bushman (2007). “Joseph Smith: Rough Stone Rolling”, p.93, Vintage

Richard Bushman

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“I have always been more interested in experiment, than in accomplishment.”
“It is hard to look the other way when a dictator is being so cruel and violent with his own people.”

Source : "Openly-Gay Congresswoman Proposes New Marriage Act". "Tell Me More" with Michel Martin, www.npr.org. March 18, 2011.
“One problem with age is that patience begins to ebb.”

Source : "Carl Hiaasen: 'My humour has always come from anger'". Interview with Euan Ferguson, www.theguardian.com. March 5, 2011.
“Oh to have a lodge in some vast wilderness. Where rumors of oppression and deceit, of unsuccessful and successful wars may never reach me anymore.”
“The funny thing about having all this so-called success is that behind it is a certain horrible emptiness.”

Source : "Sam Shepard opens up". interview with Carole Cadwalladr, www.theguardian.com. March 20, 2010.
“I've never been a passive person. I've always felt that, if you think something should be changed, it's your responsibility to actively pursue that change.”
“Father I cannot tell a lie. I did it with my little hatchet.”
“That Indians are lawless people, I would change that because it's probably the most harmful stereotype.”

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