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Hugh B. Brown
One of my favorites. I listened to one of his old BYU speeches on the way to work today. I wish I could have been alive to hear him speak.
"Now I have mentioned freedom to express your thoughts, but I caution you that your thoughts and expressions must meet competition in the market place of thought, and in that competition truth will emerge triumphant. Only error needs to fear freedom of expression. Seek truth in all fields, and in that search you will need at least three virtues; courage, zest, and modesty. The ancients put that thought in the form of a prayer. They said, 'From the cowardice that shrinks from new truth, from the laziness that is content with half truth, from the arrogance that thinks it has all truth—O God of truth deliver us'." Hugh B. Brown, Brigham Young University, March 29, 1958. |
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09-25-2007, 11:36 PM
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to the avg. Mormon mullah, Hugh Brown was an apostate.
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09-25-2007, 11:38 PM
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09-26-2007, 12:53 AM
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09-26-2007, 12:55 AM
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09-26-2007, 12:56 AM
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09-26-2007, 12:57 AM
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That quote at the end is matted and framed on my wall right now. What I would give for one of the twelve to approach things the way Elder Brown did.
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09-26-2007, 12:57 AM
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09-26-2007, 02:59 AM
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09-26-2007, 03:05 AM
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Amen. Hugh B. Brown was a wonderful, courageous man.
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