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You’ve been telling us about how to secure peace, but come on, now, General-just among us Rotarians and Rotary Anns-‘fess up!
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Curiously, neither God nor the devil may wear modern dress, but must retain Grecian vestments.
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Under a tyranny, most friends are a liability. One quarter of them turn “reasonable” and become your enemies.
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What is Love? Listen! It is the rainbow that stands out, in all its glorious many-colored hues.
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The trouble with this country is that there are too many people going about saying, “The trouble with this country is….”
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We’re tired of hearing politicians and priests and cautious reformers… coax us, ‘Be calm! Be patient! Wait!
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I have faith in Faith, I have reverence for all true Reverence.
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Advertising is a valuable economic factor because it is the cheapest way of selling goods, particularly if the goods are worthless.
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And that the pastor’s sermons, however dull they might seem at the time of taking, yet had a voodooistic power which ‘did a fellow good– kept him in touch with Higher Things.
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Every compulsion is put upon writers to become safe, polite, obedient, and sterile.
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I must say I’m not very fond of oratory that’s so full of energy it hasn’t any room for facts.
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if men and women would be human beings instead of just business men, or plumbers, or army officers, or commuters, or educators, or authors, or clubwomen, or traveling salesmen, or Socialists, or Republicans, or Salvation Army leaders, or wearers of cloths.
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Army Being Business Commuter Human Leader Men Officer Plumber Rotary Salesmen Salvation Travel Wearers
Intellectually I know that America is no better than any other country.
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Better Country Intellectual Know Other
I can not understand why ministers presume to deliver sermons every week at appointed hours because it is humanly impossible for inspirations to come with clock-like regularity
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Deliver Every Minister Presume Sermon Understand Week Why
In everything was the spirit of children’s play – not the rule-ridden, time-killing play of adults that is a preparation for death, but the busy and credulous play of children that is a preparation for life.
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The most important part of living is not the living but the pondering upon it.
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