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 BRYANPrinciples are eternal.
More William Jennings Bryan Quotes
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Eloquent speech is not from lip to ear, but rather from heart to heart.
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If matter mute and inanimate, though changed by the forces of Nature into a multitude of forms, can never die, will the spirit of man suffer annihilation when it has paid a brief visit, like a royal guest, to this tenement of clay?
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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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All the ills from which America suffers can be traced to the teaching of evolution.
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The greatest things ever done on Earth have been done little by little.
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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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Greed is at the bottom of most of the wrong-doing with which government has to deal.
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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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Most of the temptations that come to us to sell the soul come in connection with the getting of money.
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If you want criticisms, read the dissenting opinions of the Court. That will give you criticisms.
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If it be true, as I believe it is, that morality is dependent upon religion, then religion is not only the most practical thing in the world, but the first essential.
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None so little enjoy themselves, and are such burdens to themselves, as those who have nothing to do. Only the active have the true relish of life.
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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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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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Do not compute the totality of your poultry population until all the manifestations of incubation have been entirely completed.
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