William Jennings Bryan Quotes

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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• Gandhi's ideas were rooted in a wide experience of a freshly globalized world.

  

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• I love CNN. I love the Cartoon Network. I mean, I thought these things up.

  

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• I'm encouraged because you pick up any food magazine and there's two or three recipes involving Indian spices.

  

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• One of the dreams of Zionism was to be a bridge. Instead, we are creating exclusion between the East and the West instead of creating bridges; we are contributing to the conflict between East and West by our stupid desire to have more.

  

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• I come from a generation that suffered school lessons in portacabins and crumbling hospitals. I tell you one thing, for the eighteen years they were in power the Tories did nothing to fix the roof when the sun was shining.

  

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• I never had teenage years. I guess because I was seen to be more adult than anybody around me.

  

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• A stronger yuan could lead to greater Chinese asset accumulation in the U.S. and elsewhere.

  

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• Talking to other people who make low-budget movies, everyone kind of has the same struggle.

  

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• I thought I'd be doing weird, Off Broadway theater after I graduated.

  

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• We know that reading to children is a crucial step. From the beginning, babies who are read to are exposed to the cadence of language, and school-age children who read at home for 15 minutes a day are exposed to millions of words.

  

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• Progress in civilization has been accompanied by progress in cookery.

  

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• Anyone can train to be a gladiator. What marks you out is having the mindset of a champion.

  

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• I've always been a bubbly and energetic and happy person, but when I get upset, I get frustrated; when someone makes me mad, I definitely have a temper, and I've had to deal with having a temper my whole life.

  

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• There's a place in me that can really relate to being the underdog.

  

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• I've always wanted to work with dogs, so in high school, I worked at the Humane Society for a little while. I honestly think, even today, that would be the other career I would go into. Somehow I would be involved with animals.

  

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• There was a little less pressure to be fit on 'The Avengers' than 'Captain America.' I had just finished 'Captain America,' so I was already built. Plus, 'Captain America' has that one scene dramatic scene where my transformation is revealed. 'The Avengers' has not one shirtless scene.

  

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• If the universe is running down like a clock, the clock must have been wound up at a date which we could name if we knew it. The world, if it is to have an end in time, must have had a beginning in time.

  

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• Though a man be wise it is no shame for him to live and learn.

  

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• The world weighs on my shouldersBut what am I to do?You sometimes drive me crazyBut I worry about youI know it makes no differenceTo what you’re going throughBut I see the tip of the icebergAnd I worry about you... - Distant Early Warning (1984)

  

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• I'm trying to inform people, so I try to present them with accurate information.

  

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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.

  

  William Jennings Bryan
  • World
  • Believe
  • Morality