“Nobody talks so constantly about God as those who insist that there is no God.”

— Heywood Broun

"A New Preface to an Old Story", Broun's Nutmeg, August 19, 1939
Collected Edition of Heywood Broun, compiled by Heywood Hale Broun. New York: Harcourt, Brace & Co, 1941, page 26 HTTP://BOOKS.GOOGLE.COM/books?id=IRWxAAAAIAAJ&q=%22nobody+talks+so+constantly+about+god+as+those+who+insist+that+there+is+no+god%22&pg=PA26#v=onepage

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American sportswriter 1888–1939

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