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Hugh Nibley has 34 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:
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The worst sinners, according to Jesus, are not the harlots and publicans, but the religious leaders with their insistence on proper dress…
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You can only expand your capacities by working to the very limit
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Work is, after all, not a busy running back and forth in established grooves, though that is the essence of our modern…
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Knowledge can be heady stuff, but it easily leads to an excess of zeal! -- to illusions of grandeur and a desire…
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Things that appear unlikely, impossible, or paradoxical from one point of view often make perfectly good sense from another.
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Competitiveness always rests on the assumption of a life-and-death struggle.
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The gas-law of learning: . . . any amount of information no matter how small will fill any intellectual void no matter…
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As knowledge increases, the verdict of yesterday must be reversed today, and in the long run the most positive authority is the…
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Nobody loves the rat race, but nobody can think of anything else—Satan has us just where he wants us.
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No matter what happens, it will, then, always remain secret: only I know exactly the weight and force of the covenants I…
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Only if you reach the boundary will the boundary recede before you. And if you don't, if you confine your efforts, the…
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Joseph Smith could not have picked a better year to start The Book of Mormon than 600 B.C.
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