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"The nice thing about the Bible is it doesn't give you too many facts. Two an a half lines and it tells you the whole story and that leaves you a great deal of freedom to elaborate on how it might have happened."
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"The Bible has done more harm than any other book in the world."

"Some persons have ventured to say that it is only since Englishmen ceased to believe in the Bible that they began to discover how beautiful it was."

"Ronald Reagan used to alarm other constituencies by speaking freely about the End Times foreshadowed in the Bible."

"You know the Holy Spirit lives in you when you can defend the Holy Bible without fear or intimidation. John 14:1."

"Yes, I think that when the Bible refers to a horse or a horseman, that's exactly what it means."

"You have to take Bible prophecy literally, just like everything else in the Bible."

"The Bible says that two cannot walk together unless they are agreed."

"If you look at the Bible almost everything that was predicted, maybe everything, has come to pass."
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"Nothing in the universe can travel at the speed of light, they say, forgetful of the shadow's speed."


"When Robert Frost was alive, I was known as the other new England poet, which is to be barely known at all."


"I never abandoned either forms or freedom. I imagine that most of what could be called free verse is in my first book. I got through that fairly early."


"The historian is terribly responsible to what he can discern are the facts of the case, but he's nothing if he doesn't make out a case."


"When I was starting to write, the great influence was T.S. Eliot and after that William Butler Yeats."
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