Facts mean nothing unless they are rightly understood, rightly related and rightly interpreted.
WILLIAM JENNINGS BRYANTwo 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.
More William Jennings Bryan Quotes
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One miracle is just as easy to believe as another.
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Eloquent speech is not from lip to ear, but rather from heart to heart.
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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 large banking interests were deeply interested in the World War because of the wide opportunities for large profits.
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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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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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Selfish interest is one of the most common obstructions to the advance of truth.
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An orator is a man who says what he thinks and feels what he says.
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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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We spend months inside them, then the rest of our lives getting babied by them.
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The way to develop self-confidence is to do the thing you fear and get a record of successful experiences behind you.
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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 we steal a man’s purse we are thieves. If we steal twelve hundred islands we are patriots. If you steal a man’s money you will be sent to the penitentiary. If you steal his liberty you will be sent to the White House.
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Only those who believe attempt the seemingly impossible.
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No one can earn a million dollars honestly.
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