Most remarks that are worth making are commonplace remarks. The things that makes them worth saying is that … - Robert Staughton Lynd

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I believe that the flag of the Confederate States of America is a painful symbol and reminder of racial injustice and slavery which (Abraham) Lincoln denounced from here over 150 years ago

Robert Staughton Lynd

Most remarks that are worth making are commonplace remarks. The things that makes them worth saying is that we really mean them.

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I sometimes suspect that half our difficulties are imaginary and that if we kept quiet about them they would disappear.

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Most of us can remember a time when a birthday - especially if it was one's own - brightened the world as if a second sun has risen.

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When the last Puritan has disappeared from the earth, the man of science will take his place as a killjoy, and we shall be given the same old advice but for different reasons.

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[History is] the story of the magnificent rear-guard action fought during several thousand years by dogma against curiosity.

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I still have a steady stream of book cover work. I'm grateful for it. Viva le book!

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For we have never actually understood the revolutionary sense beneath them – the incredible truth that what religion calls the vision of God is found in giving up any belief in the idea of God.

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