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 BRYANThere can be no settlement of a great cause without discussion, and people will not discuss a cause until their attention is drawn to it.
More William Jennings Bryan Quotes
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If the Bible and the microscope do not agree, the microscope is wrong.
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As long as there are human rights to be defended; as long as there are great interests to be guarded; as long as the welfare of nations is a matter for discussion, so long will public speaking have its place.
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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 large banking interests were deeply interested in the World War because of the wide opportunities for large profits.
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There is no more reason to believe that man descended from an inferior animal than there is to believe that a stately mansion has descended from a small cottage.
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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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I hope the two wings of the Democratic Party may flap together.
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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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Christ has made of death a narrow starlit strip between the companionships of yesterday and the reunions of tomorrow.
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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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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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Selfish interest is one of the most common obstructions to the advance of truth.
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If evolution wins, Christianity goes!
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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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Do not compute the totality of your poultry population until all the manifestations of incubation have been entirely completed.
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