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Modern idols or false gods can take such forms as clothes, homes, businesses, machines, automobiles, pleasure boats, and numerous other material deflectors.
Spencer W. Kimball
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Spencer W. Kimball
Age: 90 †
Born: 1895
Born: March 28
Died: 1985
Died: November 5
Businessperson
Prophet
Salt Lake City
Utah
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Idols
Materials
Homes
Clothes
Businesses
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Boat
Pleasure
Gods
Automobiles
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False
Boats
Home
Forms
Numerous
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Machines
Automobile
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