James Harvey Robinson Quotes
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There are pastors who won't go to people's sick beds. How can people of God turn their back on the sick, poor and hungry?
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Most of our so-called reasoning consists in finding arguments for going on believing as we already do.
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Curiosity is idle only to those who fail to realize that it may be a very rare and indispensable thing.
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Greatness, in the last analysis, is largely bravery - courage in escaping from old ideas and old standards and respectable ways of doing things.
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Our goal, simply stated, is to be the best.
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We find it hard to believe that other people's thoughts are as silly as our own, but they probably are.
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Partisanship is our great curse. We too readily assume that everything has two sides and that it is our duty to be on one or the other.
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It is impossible to divide the past into distinct, clearly defined periods and prove that one age ended and another began in a particular year, such as 476, or 1453, or 1789. Men do not and cannot change their habits and ways of doing things all at once, no matter what happens.