American - Journalist | December 7, 1888 - December 18, 1939
Nobody talks so constantly about God as those who insist that there is no God.
Heywood Broun
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Everybody favours free speech in the slack moments when no axes are being ground.
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The ability to make love frivolously is the chief characteristic which distinguishes human beings from beasts.
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'Get up and hit a home run,' has never been a part of the usable technique of any manager.
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I do know that whenever a player hits the ball out of the park, I have a sense of elation. I feel as if I had done it.
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Perhaps the most startling reversal of tradition came in the case of Lefty Grove. He shattered the cruel slanders which have always followed lefthanders.
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The editorial strategy of the 'World' is seemingly rested upon the theory that in a desperate cause, it is well to ask a little less than you hope to get. I think you should ask more.
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It is ridiculous to say that Sacco and Vanzetti are being railroaded to the chair. The situation is much worse than that. This is a thing done cold-bloodedly and with deliberation. But care and deliberation do not guarantee justice.
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Life is not a matter of theories. Life is a matter of facts. It calls on the young and the old alike to face these facts, even though they are hard and sometimes unpleasant.
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We are under no delusions as to the innate goodness even of very small children. They are bad a great deal of the time, but before it has been knocked out of them, they see no limit to the potentialities of the human will. Theirs is the faith to move mountains, because they do not yet know the fearful heft of them.
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Every now and then, we hear parents commenting on the fearful things which motion pictures may do to the minds of children. They seem to think that a little child is full of sweetness and of light. We had the same notion until we had a chance to listen intently to the prattle of a three-year-old.
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I do not see a necessary connection between proletarian literature and some set percentage of words which bring the blushes to a maiden's cheek.
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