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When the world stops booing the church and begins to applaud it, its enthusiasm ought to arouse the Christian's suspicion.

The Bible is not a book of science, but it is a book that has scientific implications, and when science is properly understood, it supports the Bible.

I think that NATO is itself a war criminal.

I don't intend to simply go away and write my plays and be a good boy. I intend to remain an independent and political intelligence in my own right.

That Smathers is smart. He got ever'body off the hook. Even the company. An' he got us so tied in that there's nothin' we can say

But he was wrong. Mr. Ford had the one unforgivable vice. He was intolerant.

Is Moby Dick the whale or the man?

I think it is an immutable law in business that words are words, explanations are explanations, promises are promises - but only performance is reality.

For Judaism, sin is a deed, not a condition.

With the memory of Dr. H. H. Holmes still fresh in their minds

would achieve lasting notoriety, becoming a permanent part of our national folklore. His name was Alfred Packer

May 5, the Chicago American, within the space of a few paragraphs, branded her as both "the most fiendish murderer of the age" and "the most fiendish murderess in history.

Mrs. Gunness, the paper declared, was "now thought to be still alive."[

Only the technology has changed. The public's appetite for sensational true-crime stories has remained exactly the same.

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I do not want to speak about overpopulation or birth control, but I think education is the way to give new impetus to the poverty question.

Abraham Lincoln. When he met Stowe, it is claimed that he said, "So you're the little woman that started this great war!

Mrs. Bird, seeing the defenseless condition of the enemy's territory, had no more conscience than to push her advantage.

heavy gold watch-chain, with a bundle of seals of portentous size, and a great variety of colors, attached to it,—which, in the ardor of conversation, he was in the habit of flourishing and jingling with evident satisfaction. His conversation was in free and easy defiance of

No, she learned that true love was epic stuff, as told by Mary.

Everything in this world that is truly worth doing takes practice. Courage is no exception.

There are days when any electrical appliance in the house, including the vacuum cleaner, seems to offer more entertainment possibilities than the TV set.

When I was confronted with official tuition, the academic thing, I could see no relationship whatever between that and the music I'd been writing since I was 11.

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