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.
WILLIAM JENNINGS BRYANPatriotism is a mystery-intangible, invisible, and yet eternal.
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You shall not press down upon the brow of labor this crown of thorns; you shall not crucify mankind upon a cross of gold.
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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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Christ has made of death a narrow starlit strip between the companionships of yesterday and the reunions of tomorrow.
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Only those who believe attempt the seemingly impossible.
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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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If it weren’t for the lawyers we wouldn’t need them.
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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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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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Do not compute the totality of your poultry population until all the manifestations of incubation have been entirely completed.
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We spend months inside them, then the rest of our lives getting babied by them.
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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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No one can earn a million dollars honestly.
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Selfish interest is one of the most common obstructions to the advance of truth.
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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 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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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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Wars are sometimes waged to extend trade-the blood of many being shed to enrich a few.
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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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If the Bible and the microscope do not agree, the microscope is wrong.
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I have been so satisfied with the Christian religion that I have spent no time trying to find arguments against it. I am not afraid now that you will show me any. I feel that I have enough information to live and die by.
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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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Anglo-Saxon civilization has taught the individual to protect his own rights; American civilization will teach him to respect the rights of others.
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Eloquent speech is not from lip to ear, but rather from heart to heart.
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Principles are eternal.
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We 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.
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