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 BRYANThe 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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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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The speech of one who knows what he is talking about and means what he says-it is thought on fire.
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The greatest things ever done on Earth have been done little by little.
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The Old Testament gave us the law; the New Testament reveals the love upon which the law rests.
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All the ills from which America suffers can be traced to the teaching of evolution.
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When we advocate a thing which we believe will be successful we are not compelled to raise a doubt as to our own sincerity by trying to show what we will do if we are wrong.
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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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The Rock of Ages is more important than the age of rocks.
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On Thanksgiving Day we acknowledge our dependence.
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If we steal a man’s purse we are thieves. If we steal twelve hundred islands we are patriots. If you steal a man’s money you will be sent to the penitentiary. If you steal his liberty you will be sent to the White House.
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We have our thoughts, our hopes, our fears, and yet we know that in a moment a change may come over any one of us that will convert a living, breathing human being into a mass of lifeless clay.
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An orator is a man who says what he thinks and feels what he says.
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The people of Nebraska are for free silver and I am for free silver. I will look up the arguments later.
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Do not compute the totality of your poultry population until all the manifestations of incubation have been entirely completed.
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Whenever one refuses to admit such a self-evident truth, for instance, as that it is wrong to steal, don’t argue with him-search him; the reason may be found in his pocket.
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