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• Character is the aim of true education; and science, history, and literature are but means used to accomplish this desired end.

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  Character, Mean, Literature

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• The peril of this century is spiritual apathy. As the body requires sunlight, good food, proper exercise and rest, so the spirit of man requires the sunlight of the Holy Spirit; proper exercise of the spiritual functions; the avoiding of evils that affect spiritual health, that are more ravaging in their effects than typhoid fever, pneumonia, or other diseases that attack the body.

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  Spiritual, Exercise, Men

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• No man can sincerely resolve to apply to his daily life the teachings of Jesus of Nazareth without sensing a change in his own nature. The phrase, 'born again', has a deeper significance than many people attach to it. This changed feeling may be indescribable, but it is real.

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  Jesus, Real, Teaching

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• As with companions so with books. We may choose those which will make us better, more intelligent, more appreciative of the good and the beautiful in the world, or we may choose the trashy, the vulgar, the obscene, which will make us feel as though we've been 'wallowing in the mire.

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  Beautiful, Book, Intelligent

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• The aim of education is to develop resources in the child that will contribute to his well-being as long as life endures; to develop power of self-mastery that he may never be a slave to indulgence or other weaknesses, to develop [strong] manhood, beautiful womanhood that in every child and every youth may be found at least the promise of a friend, a companion, one who later may be fit for husband or wife, an exemplary father or a loving intelligent mother, one who can face life with courage, meet disaster with fortitude, and face death without fear.

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  Beautiful, Mother, Strong

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• Communism is not a political party nor a political plan under the Constitution; it is a system of government that is the opposite of our Constitutional government, and it would be necessary to destroy our government before Communism could be set up in the United States....[Communism] even reaches its hand into the sanctity of the family circle itself, disrupting the normal relationship of parent and child, all in a manner unknown and unsanctioned under the Constitutional guarantees under which we in America live.

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  Children, Party, Hands

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• Motherhood is the one thing in all the world which most truly exemplifies the God-given virtues of creating and sacrificing. Though it carries the woman close to the brink of death, motherhood also leads her into the very realm of the fountains of life and makes her co-partner with the Creator in bestowing upon eternal spirits mortal life.

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  Mom, Sacrifice, Motherhood

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• The two most important documents affecting the destiny of America are the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution of the United States. Both these immortal papers relate primarily to the freedom of the individual.

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  Destiny, Two, America

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• True happiness comes only by making others happy—the practical application of the Savior's doctrine of losing one's life to gain it. In short, the Christmas spirit is the Christ spirit, that makes our hearts glow in brotherly love and friendship and prompts us to kind deeds of service.

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  Heart, Kind Deeds, Love And Friendship

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• The latest I like to be to meeting is 15 minutes early

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  Punctuality, Minutes, Meetings

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• True education is awakening a love for truth...opening the eyes of the soul to the great purpose and end of life.

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  Education, Eye, Soul

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• I never think of death: I am too busy thinking of life.

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  Thinking, Busy, Too Busy

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• The character of a child is formed largely during the first twelve years of his life. He spends 16 times as many waking hours in the home as in the school, and 126 times as many hours in the home as in the church. Each child is, to a great degree, what he is because of the ever-constant influence of home environment and the careful or neglectful training of parents. Home is the best place for the child to learn self-control, to learn that he must submerge himself for the good of another. It is the best place in which to develop obedience, which nature and society will later demand.

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  Children, Teaching, Home

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• The greatest comfort in this life is having a close relationship with God.

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  Comfort, Life Is, This Life

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• Youth need guidance, direction, and proper restraint...Parents, too, have a responsibility in this training not to provoke children to wrath. They should be considerate not to irritate by vexatious commands or place unreasonable blame. Whenever possible they should give encouragement rather than remonstrance or reproof.

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  Encouragement, Children, Responsibility

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• True education seeks to make men and women not only good mathematicians, proficient linguists, profound scientists, or brilliant literary lights, but also honest men and women with virtue, temperance, and brotherly love.

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  Truth, Lying, Men

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• The first condition of happiness is a clear conscience.

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  Firsts, Clear, Conditions

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• It is possible to make home a bit of heaven; indeed, I picture heaven to be a continuation of the ideal home

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  Home, Heaven, Continuation

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• Man's greatest happiness comes from losing himself for the good of others.

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  Men, Losing

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• The purpose of the church is to make bad men good and good men better.

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  Men, Good Man, Church

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• Slander is poison to the soul.

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  Gossip, Soul, Poison

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• Would you have a strong and virile nation, keep your homes pure; would you reduce delinquency and crime, lessen the number of broken homes. It is time that civilized peoples realized that prevention is more profitable than punishment, and that the home is the incubator either of children of high character or of criminals. Home building, therefore, should be the paramount purpose of parents and of the nation.

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  Strong, Children, Character

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• Motherhood is the greatest potential influence either for good or ill in human life. The mother's image is the first that stamps itself on the unwritten page of the young child's mind. It is her caress that first awakens a sense of security; her kiss, the first realization of affection; her sympathy and tenderness, the first assurance that there is love in the world.

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  Mother, Children, Kissing

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• The real test of any church or religion is the kind of men it makes.

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  Real, Men, Church

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• In choosing a companion, it is necessary to study the disposition, the inheritance, and training of the one with whom you are contemplating making life’s journey.

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  Marriage, Journey, Training

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