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Quote by Lyman Beecher
No great advance has ever been made in science, politics, or relig

No great advance has ever been made in science, politics, or religion, without controversy. – Lyman Beecher

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Never chase a lie. Let it alone, and it will run itself to death. I can work out a good character much faster than anyone can lie me out of it – Lyman Beecher

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Deception/Lying
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Lyman Beecher
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Two dogs strive for a bone and the third one runs off with it. – Proverb

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Argument & Debate

I tell you Wellington is a bad general, the English are bad soldiers; we will settle this matter by lunch time. – Napoleon Bonaparte

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Argument & Debate

If men would consider not so much wherein they differ, as wherein they agree, there would be far less of uncharitableness and angry feeling. – Joseph Addison

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Argument & Debate

My wife was too beautiful for words, but not for arguments. – John Barrymore

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Argument & Debate

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When it comes to Chinese food I have always operated under the policy that the less known about the preparation the better. A wise diner who is invited to visit the kitchen replies by saying, as politely as possible, that he has a pressing engagement elsewhere. – Calvin Trillin

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I think kids slowly begin to realize that what theyre learning relates to other things they know. Then learning starts to get more and more exciting. – Norton Juster

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God grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change, the courage to change the things I can, and the wisdom to know the difference. – Reinhold Niebuhr

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Zoos are becoming facsimiles – or perhaps caricatures – of how animals once were in their natural habitat. If the right policies toward nature were pursued, we would need no zoos at all. – Michael Fox, Sierra, November-December 1990

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