Heywood Broun Quotes

1888–1939, American Journalist, Novelist · Wikipedia · Wikidata
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“Nobody talks so constantly about God as those who insist that there is no God.”
Verified"A New Preface to an Old Story", Broun's Nutmeg, August 19, 1939 · evidenceDetails & citeAtheism
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“Men are blind in their own cause.”
Causes
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“Sweat is the cologne of accomplishment.”
Sweat
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“Posterity is as likely to be wrong as anybody else.”
Posterity
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“The tragedy of life is not that a man loses, but that he almost wins.”
Life and Living
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“The urge to gamble is so universal and its practice so pleasurable that I assume it must be evil.”
Gambling
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“Hell is paved with great granite blocks hewn from the hearts of those who said, ''I can do no other.''”
Hell
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“Brotherhood is not just a Bible word. Out of comradeship can come and will come the happy life for all.”
Brotherhood
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“The most prolific period of pessimism comes at twenty-one or thereabouts, when the first attempt is made to translate dreams into reality.”
Pessimism
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“Just as every conviction begins as a whim so does every emancipator serve his apprenticeship as a crank. A fanatic is a great leader who is just entering the room.”
Fanatics and Fanaticism
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“Except that right side up is best, there is not much to learn about holding a baby. There are one hundred and fifty-two distinctly different ways --and all are right! At least all will do.”
Babies
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