"As long as we can keep our international relations in the realm of conference rather than open conflict, we are giving truth more time to vindicate itself. And what we ourselves need is more faith in the power of truth."

-- Ralph Washington Sockman

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“There is something decidedly faux about the camaraderie of Facebook, something illusory about the connectedness of Twitter.”

Source : "The Twitter Trap" by Bill Keller, www.nytimes.com. May 18, 2011.
“It takes all sorts of people to make the underworld.”

Source : "Story of a Feather", in "Punch", Volume V, p. 55, as quoted in Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations, p. 911-17, 1922.
“The principal end both of my father and of myself in the conquest of India... has been the propagation of the holy Catholic faith.”
“The businessman only wants two things said about his company-what he pays his public relations people to say and what he pays his advertising people to say. He doesn't like anybody ever to look above, beyond or over that.”
“I can see others in the sunlight; I can see our boats' crews and our athletic young men on the glistening water, or speckled with the moving lights of sunlit leaves; but I myself am always in the shadow looking on. Not unsympathetically, - God forbid! - but looking on alone, much as I looked at Sylvia from the shadows of the ruined house, or looked at the red gleam shining through the farmer's windows, and listened to the fall of dancing feet, when all the ruin was dark that night in the quadrangle.”
“Our institutions were not devised to bring about uniformity of opinion; if they had we might well abandon hope. It is important to remember, as has well been said, 'the essential characteristic of true liberty is that under its shelter many different types of life and character and opinion and belief can develop unmolested and unobstructed.'”

Source : Speech to the American Bar Association, September 02, 1925.
“Sixteen candles make a lovely light But not as bright as your eyes tonight.”
“My films have to do with justice and many, many other concerns. That's the sad part of coming from my generation, and having been boxed in by those words like "identity."”

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