Two people in a conversation amount to four people talking. The four are what one person says, what he really wanted to say, what his listener heard, and what he thought he heard.
WILLIAM JENNINGS BRYANYou shall not crucify mankind upon a cross of gold.
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Our government conceived in freedom and purchased with blood can be preserved only by constant vigilance.
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If God himself was not willing to use coercion to force man to accept certain religious views, man, uninspired and liable to error, ought not to use the means that Jehovah would not employ.
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The greatest things ever done on Earth have been done little by little.
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No one can earn a million dollars honestly.
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No greater victory can be won by citizens or soldiers than to transform temporary foes into permanent friends.
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There is no more reason to believe that man descended from an inferior animal than there is to believe that a stately mansion has descended from a small cottage.
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An orator is a man who says what he thinks and feels what he says.
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The wisdom of the Bible writers is more than human; the prophecies proclaim a Supreme Ruler who, though inhabiting all space, deigns to speak through the hearts and minds and tongues of His children.
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Christ has made of death a narrow starlit strip between the companionships of yesterday and the reunions of tomorrow.
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I have been so satisfied with the Christian religion that I have spent no time trying to find arguments against it. I am not afraid now that you will show me any. I feel that I have enough information to live and die by.
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My place in history will depend on what I can do for the people and not on what the people can do for me.
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Love makes money-grabbing seem contemptible; love makes class prejudice impossible; love makes selfish ambition a thing to be despised; love converts enemies into friends.
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One miracle is just as easy to believe as another.
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You shall not press down upon the brow of labor this crown of thorns; you shall not crucify mankind upon a cross of gold.
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If it be true, as I believe it is, that morality is dependent upon religion, then religion is not only the most practical thing in the world, but the first essential.
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Eloquent speech is not from lip to ear, but rather from heart to heart.
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If you want criticisms, read the dissenting opinions of the Court. That will give you criticisms.
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All the ills from which America suffers can be traced to the teaching of evolution.
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Evolution is not truth; it is merely a hypothesis-it is millions of guesses strung together.
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Facts mean nothing unless they are rightly understood, rightly related and rightly interpreted.
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Destiny is no matter of chance. It is a matter of choice. It is not a thing to be waited for, it is a thing to be achieved.
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Darwin begins by assuming life upon the earth; the Bible reveals the source of life and chronicles its creation.
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Atheists have just as much civil right to teach atheism as Christians have to teach Christianity; agnostics have just as much right to teach agnosticism as Christians have to teach their religion.
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If it weren’t for the lawyers we wouldn’t need them.
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If we have to give up either religion or education, we should give up education.
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There can be no settlement of a great cause without discussion, and people will not discuss a cause until their attention is drawn to it.
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