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Without preservation and cultivation of the spiritual, your material success will be as ashes in your mouths.
Gordon B. Hinckley
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Gordon B. Hinckley
Age: 97 †
Born: 1910
Born: June 23
Died: 2008
Died: January 27
Hymnwriter
Prophet
Religious Leader
Salt Lake City
Utah
Gordon Bitner Hinckley
Gordon Hinckley
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Death is not the end, but a more glorified existence.
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Try a little harder to be a little better.
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Nobody is lost until somebody has given up.
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It is imperative that good people, men and women of principle, be involved in the political process otherwise we abdicate power to those whose designs are almost entirely selfish.
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There are few things more pathetic than those who have lost their curiosity and sense of adventure, and who no longer care to learn.
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We must work harder to build mutual respect, an attitude of tolerance, with forbearance one for another.
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A tattoo is graffiti on the temple of the body.
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There is no substitute for virtue. Keep your thoughts virtuous. Rise above the filth that's all around you in this world and stand tall in strength and virtue. You can do this and you will be happier for it for as long as you live. God bless you in cherishing, developing and holding on to this great gift, the quality of personal virtue.
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God gave us our agency. He taught us a way. He showed us what to do. But he gave us our agency and left us free to act as we choose to do.
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There is rampant among us a spirit of criticism. Men and women who carry heavy responsibility do not need criticism, they need encouragement.
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Books represent the accumulated workings of the human mind, the endless treasures of man's thoughts.
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