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 BRYAN
Agnosticism is the natural attitude of the evolutionist. How can a brute mind comprehend spiritual things?
More William Jennings Bryan Quotes
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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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You shall not crucify mankind upon a cross of gold.
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Patriotism is a mystery-intangible, invisible, and yet eternal.
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A man who murders another shortens by a few brief years the life of a human being; but he who votes to increase the burden of debts upon the people of the United States assumes a graver responsibility.
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Evolution seems to close the heart to some of the plainest spiritual truths while it opens the mind to the wildest guesses advanced in the name of science.
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This nation is able to legislate for its own people on every question, without waiting for the aid or consent of any other nation on earth.
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If the Bible had said that Jonah swallowed the whale, I would believe it.
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Anglo-Saxon civilization has taught the individual to protect his own rights; American civilization will teach him to respect the rights of others.
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If that vital spark that we find in a grain of wheat can pass unchanged through countless deaths and resurrections, will the spirit of man be unable to pass from this body to another?
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If there is no God there is no hereafter. When, therefore, one drives God out of the universe he closes the door of hope upon himself.
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Only those who believe attempt the seemingly impossible.
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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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Do not compute the totality of your poultry population until all the manifestations of incubation have been entirely completed.
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I hope the two wings of the Democratic Party may flap together.
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