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Van Wyck Brooks

"The American mind, unlike the English, is not formed by books, but, as Carl Sandburg once said to me... by newspapers and the Bible."

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"The American mind, unlike the English, is not formed by books, but, as Carl Sandburg once said to me... by newspapers and the Bible."

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

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"Determining to read through your Bible is a decision only you can make."

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

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"We have used the Bible as if it were a mere special constable's handbook, an opium dose for keeping beasts of burden patient while they are overloaded."

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"We need to pray and read the Bible every day, and regardless of whatever else happens to you, that tends to keep you close to Him, because you are constantly in touch through His Word."

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"Where one man reads the Bible, a hundred read you and me."

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"I'd usually read the Bible a lot. Read little short Bible stories. And today, whenever I give speeches, I bring up a few of those Bible stories, because those are inspirations to me."

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"The words of the Bible, and the Bible alone, should be heard from the pulpit."

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"When the missionaries came to Africa they had the Bible and we had the land. They said "Let us pray." We closed our eyes. When we opened them we had the Bible and they had the land."

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"Many of us view the bible and other religious teachings as mythology."

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"The creative impulses of man are always at war with the possessive impulses."
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"There is no stopping the world's tendency to throw off imposed restraints, the religious authority that is based on the ignorance of the many, the political authority that is based on the knowledge of the few."
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"People of small caliber are always carping. They are bent on showing their own superiority, their knowledge or prowess or good breeding."
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"Magnanimous people have no vanity, they have no jealousy, and they feed on the true and the solid wherever they find it. And, what is more, they find it everywhere."
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"If men were basically evil, who would bother to improve the world instead of giving it up as a bad job at the outset?"
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"The man who has the courage of his platitudes is always a successful man."
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"It is not that the French are not profound, but they all express themselves so well that we are led to take their geese for swans."
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"Genius and virtue are to be more often found clothed in gray than in peacock bright."
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"No one is fit to judge a book until he has rounded Cape Horn in a sailing vessel, until he has bumped into two or three icebergs, until he has been lost in the sands of the desert, until he has spent a few years in the House of the Dead."
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