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“You can't get old without living.”

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Jim Brown, born on February 17, 1936, is a renowned American football player. He achieved remarkable success in the sport of American football and is considered one of the greatest players in history. more

“There is a portent of stormy weather ahead to which we had better give heed...No one knows when emergencies will strike...Set your houses in order. If you have paid your debts, if you have a reserve, even though it be small, then should storms howl about your head, you will have shelter for your wife and children and peace in your hearts. That's all I have to say about it, but I wish to say it with all the emphasis of which I am capable.”

“Too often we bask in our comfortable complacency and rationalize that the ravages of war, economic disaster, famine, and earth quake cannot happen here. Those who believe this are either not acquainted with the revelations of the Lord, or they do not believe them. Those who smugly think these calamities will not happen, that they will somehow be set aside because of the righteousness of the Saints, are deceived and will rue the day they harbored such a delusion.”

Source: The Teachings of Ezra Taft Benson

“...when we really get into hard times, where food is scarce or there is none at all, and so with clothing and shelter, money may be no good for there may be nothing to buy, and you cannot eat money, you cannot get enough of it together to burn to keep you warm, and you cannot wear it.”

May Hard Enough Together Religious Warm Hard Times Clothings Shelter Self Reliance Reliance Scarce Preparedness Emergency Preparedness

Author:J. Reuben Clark

“Let us avoid debt as we would avoid a plague...Let every head of every household see to it that he has on hand enough food and clothing, and, where possible, fuel also, for at least a year ahead...Let every head of household aim to own his own home, free from mortgage. Let us again clothe ourselves with these proved and sterling virtues-honesty, truthfulness, chastity, sobriety, temperance, industry, and thrift; let us discard all covetousness and greed.”

“We must not measure greatness from the mansion down, but from the manger up. Jesus said that we should not be judged by the bark we wear but by the fruit that we bear. Jesus said that we must measure greatness by how we treat the least of these.”

Should Said Success Jesus Greatness Bears Treats Fruit Judged Bark Mansions

Author:Jesse Jackson

“You only have to believe that you can succeed, that you can be whatever your heart desires, be willing to work for it, and you can have it.”

Believe Heart Success Desire Willing Succeed Hearts Desire

Author:Oprah Winfrey

“May the light of freedom, coming to all darkened lands, flame brightly - until at last the darkness is no more.”

May Light Lasts Darkness Land Independence Flames Independence Day

Book:Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: Dwight D. Eisenhower, 1957

Source: Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: Dwight D. Eisenhower, 1957

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