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 greatest things ever done on Earth have been done little by little.
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All the ills from which America suffers can be traced to the teaching of evolution.
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If evolution wins, Christianity goes!
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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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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 large banking interests were deeply interested in the World War because of the wide opportunities for large profits.
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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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Evolution is not truth; it is merely a hypothesis-it is millions of guesses strung together.
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We spend months inside them, then the rest of our lives getting babied by them.
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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 we desire rules to govern our spiritual development we turn back to the Sermon on the Mount.
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All the ills from which America suffers can be traced back to the teaching of evolution. It would be better to destroy every other book ever written, and save just the first three verses of Genesis.
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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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Selfish interest is one of the most common obstructions to the advance of truth.
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The greatest things ever done on Earth have been done little by little.
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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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If you want criticisms, read the dissenting opinions of the Court. That will give you criticisms.
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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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The Rock of Ages is more important than the age of rocks.
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We can exterminate Ku Kluxism better by recognizing their honesty and teaching them that they are wrong.
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On Thanksgiving Day we acknowledge our dependence.
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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 great political questions are in their final analysis great moral questions.
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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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Belief in God is almost universal and the effect of this belief is so vast that one is appalled at the thought of what social conditions would be if reverence for God were erased from every heart.
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A belief in God is fundamental; upon it rest the influences that control life.
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