The large banking interests were deeply interested in the World War because of the wide opportunities for large profits.
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.
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Evolution is not truth; it is merely a hypothesis-it is millions of guesses strung together.
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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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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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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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Selfish interest is one of the most common obstructions to the advance of truth.
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We spend months inside them, then the rest of our lives getting babied by them.
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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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Burn down your cities and leave our farms, and your cities will spring up again as if by magic; but destroy our farms and the grass will grow in the streets of every city in the country.
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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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Patriotism is a mystery-intangible, invisible, and yet eternal.
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The Rock of Ages is more important than the age of rocks.
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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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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 to the teaching of evolution.
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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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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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Principles are eternal.
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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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Atheists have just as much civil right to teach atheism as Christians have to teach Christianity; agnostics have just as much right to teach agnosticism as Christians have to teach their religion.
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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 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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No greater victory can be won by citizens or soldiers than to transform temporary foes into permanent friends.
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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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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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The greatest things ever done on Earth have been done little by little.
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Our government conceived in freedom and purchased with blood can be preserved only by constant vigilance.
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