William Jennings Bryan/fighting The Theory of Evolution - 1918%e2%80%931925

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    For me, poetry is always a search for order.
    —Elizabeth Jennings (b. 1926)

    I think we will live through his term, Archie, and I’ll tell you something, old man, if they don’t stop hammering me, first Bryan for not enforcing the Anti-Trust Law and Wall Street for enforcing it, they may succeed in electing me to another term whether I want it or not.
    William Howard Taft (1857–1930)

    No battle is worth fighting except the last one.
    J. Enoch Powell (b. 1912)

    Thus the theory of description matters most.
    It is the theory of the word for those
    For whom the word is the making of the world,
    The buzzing world and lisping firmament.
    Wallace Stevens (1879–1955)

    The evolution of sense is, in a sense, the evolution of nonsense.
    Vladimir Nabokov (1899–1977)