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Famous quotes containing the words field and/or wheat:

    “Better risk loss of truth than chance of error—that is your faith-vetoer’s exact position. He is actively playing his stake as much as the believer is; he is backing the field against the religious hypothesis, just as the believer is backing the religious hypothesis against the field.”
    —William James (1842–1910)

    “An editor is someone who separates the wheat from the chaff and then prints the chaff.”
    —Adlai Stevenson (1900–1965)