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 BRYANIf 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.
More William Jennings Bryan Quotes
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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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Destiny is no matter of chance. It is a matter of choice. It is not a thing to be waited for, it is a thing to be achieved.
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You shall not crucify mankind upon a cross of gold.
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No one can earn a million dollars honestly.
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Most of the temptations that come to us to sell the soul come in connection with the getting of money.
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Real estate is the best investment for small savings. More money is made from the rise in real estate values than from all other causes combined.
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Love makes money-grabbing seem contemptible; love makes class prejudice impossible; love makes selfish ambition a thing to be despised; love converts enemies into friends.
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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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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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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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Our government conceived in freedom and purchased with blood can be preserved only by constant vigilance.
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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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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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Evolution is not truth; it is merely a hypothesis-it is millions of guesses strung together.
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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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