If the Bible and the microscope do not agree, the microscope is wrong.
WILLIAM JENNINGS BRYANAgnosticism is the natural attitude of the evolutionist. How can a brute mind comprehend spiritual things?
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The essence of patriotism lies in a willingness to sacrifice for one’s country, just as true greatness finds expression, not in blessings enjoyed, but in good bestowed.
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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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Never be afraid to stand with the minority when the minority is right, for the minority which is right will one day be the majority.
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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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A belief in God is fundamental; upon it rest the influences that control life.
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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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The greatest things ever done on Earth have been done little by little.
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None so little enjoy themselves, and are such burdens to themselves, as those who have nothing to do. Only the active have the true relish of life.
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Facts mean nothing unless they are rightly understood, rightly related and rightly interpreted.
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If matter mute and inanimate, though changed by the forces of Nature into a multitude of forms, can never die, will the spirit of man suffer annihilation when it has paid a brief visit, like a royal guest, to this tenement of clay?
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Evolution is not truth; it is merely a hypothesis-it is millions of guesses strung together.
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Selfish interest is one of the most common obstructions to the advance of truth.
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Agnosticism is the natural attitude of the evolutionist. How can a brute mind comprehend spiritual things?
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On Thanksgiving Day we acknowledge our dependence.
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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.
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