THOUGHTS ON THOUGHTS
President Ezra Taft Benson, General Conference, October 1988:
"I challenge the homes of Israel to display on their walls great quotations and pictures from the Book of Mormon."
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President Gordon B. Hinckley:
"The older I grow, the more I enjoy the words of thoughtful writers, ancient and modern, and the savoring of that which they have written."
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President Ezra Taft Benson:
"It is our privilege to store our memories with good and great thoughts and bring them out...of our minds at will."
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President Gordon B. Hinckley:
"(We) need to grow constantly, to stretch the mind, to enlarge understanding, to be nurtured by the thoughts of great men and women of all ages."
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Ethna R. Reid, director of the Examplary Center for Reading Instruction and of the Reid School:
"Identify heroes and heroines: Bring into the home pictures and words of famous people of character. Think great thoughts. Consider having a hero of the week to feature. Also remember heroic people that the children have contact with on a regular basis that they can look up to."
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“The short sayings of wise and good men are of great value, like the dust of gold and the sparks of diamonds.”
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“Great thoughts
left unread are like fruitful
seeds left unplanted.”
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"It takes but one
positive
thought when given a chance to survive and thrive to overpower
an entire army of negative thoughts."