Paper Scraps

My fortune cookie from PF Chang's:
Your troubles will cease and fortune will smile upon you.
(Please let this mean that finals are not going to kill me.)

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Officially the best line from general conference:
"It is by words that every being works when he works by faith." - Elder Jeffery R. Holland
(Ha!)

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From the AML Conference schedule:
3:40–5:00
Mormon Rhetoric
(402)
Katherine Morris (chair)
Liz Muir, “Inspired Speaking:
An Overview of Early
Mormon Rhetoric”
Sarah Pearson, “‘After This
Manner Therefore Pray Ye’:
A Discourse Analysis of LDS
Prayer”
(A whole 80 minutes?! What am I going to do?)

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From Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets:
"Because that's what Hermione does" said Ron, shrugging. "When in doubt, go to the library."
(Good solution.)

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From an article on 19th century preaching rhetoric that I'm reading to expand my paper for the AML conference:

Americans were never made to write;
Their genius leads them quite another way,
It is in arts and labors they display
Themselves, like other nations bright,
Perhaps in many things a little brighter,
But then there never was a good American writer.
(I am doomed.)