"No man ever believes that the Bible means what it says: He is always convinced that it says what he means."

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"No man ever believes that the Bible means what it says: He is always convinced that it says what he means."

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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."

Van Wyck Brooks, American Critic

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"The Bible is literature, not dogma."

George Santayana, American Philosopher

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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."

Cliff Richard, English Musician

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"If you look at the Bible almost everything that was predicted, maybe everything, has come to pass."

Evel Knievel, American Entertainer

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"How can a rabbi not live with doubt? The Bible itself is a book of doubt."

Arthur Hertzberg, Polish Theologian

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"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."

Lafcadio Hearn, Japanese Author

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"Is it experimental to have been influenced by the Bible? By Saint Augustine?"

Marguerite Young, American Author

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"The first syndicating I tried was when two partners and I created a production company in 1952. We wanted to syndicate famous Bible stories and sell them for $25 a show."

Casey Kasem, American Broadcaster

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"The Bible was a consolation to a fellow alone in the old cell. The lovely thin paper with a bit of matress stuffing in it, if you could get a match, was as good a smoke as I ever tasted."

Brendan Behan, Irish Dramatist

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

Jim George, American Author

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"Beauty is all very well at first sight; but who ever looks at it when it has been in the house three days?"

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"Do not waste your time on Social Questions. What is the matter with the poor is Poverty; what is the matter with the rich is Uselessness."

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"The only service a friend can really render is to keep up your courage by holding up to you a mirror in which you can see a noble image of yourself."

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"Use your health, even to the point of wearing it out. That is what it is for. Spend all you have before you die; do not outlive yourself."

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"Some men see things as they are and ask why. Others dream things that never were and ask why not."

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"CHARTERIS [unfolding his arms in terror] No, please. Dont. As a philosopher, it's my business to tell other people the truth; but it's not their business to tell it to me. I dont like it: it hurts."

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"The people who get on in this world are the people who get up and look for the circumstances they want and if they can't find them make them."

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"What we want to see is the child in pursuit of the knowledge not the knowledge in pursuit of the child."

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"Virtue consists not in abstaining from vice but in not desiring it."

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"There are two tragedies in life. One is to lose your heart's desire. The other is to gain it."

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