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 BRYANWe have our thoughts, our hopes, our fears, and yet we know that in a moment a change may come over any one of us that will convert a living, breathing human being into a mass of lifeless clay.
More William Jennings Bryan Quotes
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If it weren’t for the lawyers we wouldn’t need them.
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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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Evolution is not truth; it is merely a hypothesis-it is millions of guesses strung together.
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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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A belief in God is fundamental; upon it rest the influences that control life.
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I hope the two wings of the Democratic Party may flap together.
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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 evolution wins, Christianity goes!
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Agnosticism is the natural attitude of the evolutionist. How can a brute mind comprehend spiritual things?
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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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Selfish interest is one of the most common obstructions to the advance of truth.
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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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When I find a man who is not willing to pay his share of the burden of the government which protects him, I find a man who is unworthy to enjoy the blessings of a government like ours.
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Only those who believe attempt the seemingly impossible.
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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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