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It's amazing how much you can get done if you don't worry about who gets the credit.

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Dallin H. Oaks
Age: 92
Born: 1932
Born: August 12
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The principles stated in the proclamation on the family are a beautiful expression of this gospel culture.
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There is not a right and a wrong answer to every question.
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We feel great compassion for parents whose love and protective instincts for their challenged children have moved them to some positions that are adversary to the Church. I hope the Lord will be merciful to parents whose love for their children has caused them to get into such traps.
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The ultimate defining fact for all of us is that we are children of Heavenly Parents, born on this earth for a purpose, and born with a divine destiny.
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Citizens ... should be practitioners of civic virtue in their conduct toward government. They should be ever willing to fulfill the duties of citizenship. This includes compulsory duties like military service and the numerous voluntary actions they must take if they are to preserve the principle of limited government through citizen self-reliance.
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Service that is given with little or no thought of personal advantage is an ideal to pursue for a lifetime.
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The word sharing affirms that we have something extraordinarily valuable and desire to give it to others for their benefit and blessing.
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If people want to legalize a particular relationship, we need to be careful if that kind of relationship has been disapproved for millennia.
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We are overcome by the cares ... of this life when we are paralyzed by fear of the future, which hinders our going forward in faith, trusting in God and His promises. It is up to each of us to set the priorities and to do the things that make our soil good and our harvest plentiful.
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...A man is not required to run faster than he is able but it is a requirement to run.
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In the acquisition of Sacred knowledge, scholarship and reason are not alternatives to revelation. They are a means to an end, and the end is revelation from God.
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We have to forego some good things in order to choose others that are better or best because they develop faith in the Lord Jesus Christ and strengthen our families.
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Priesthood power blesses all of us. Priesthood keys direct women as well as men, and priesthood ordinances and priesthood authority pertain to women as well as men.
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There are people who oppose a federal Constitutional amendment because they think that the law of family should be made by the states. I can see a legitimate argument there. I think it's mistaken, however, because the federal government, through the decisions of life-tenured federal judges, has already taken over that area.
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Our Savior gave Himself in unselfish service. He taught that each of us should follow Him by denying ourselves of selfish interests in order to serve others.
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We urge persons with same-gender attractions to control those and to refrain from acting upon them, which is a sin, just as we urge persons with heterosexual attractions to refrain from acting upon them until they have the opportunity for a marriage recognized by God as well as by the law of the land. That is the way to happiness and eternal life.
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When all other hope is gone, our Father in Heaven provides the Lamb of God, and we are saved by his sacrifice.
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President Lorenzo Snow declared that it is the grand privilege of every Latter-day Saint . . . to have the manifestations of the spirit every day of our lives.
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Service is an imperative for those who worship Jesus Christ and a covenant obligation of those who belong to his Church.
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Even as we seek to be meek and to avoid contention, we must not compromise or dilute our commitment to the truths we understand.
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