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The aim of education is the knowledge, not of facts, but of values.

William Ralph Inge

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Nature takes away any faculty that is not used.
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We must cut our coat according to our cloth, and adapt ourselves to changing circumstances.
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Prayer gives a man the opportunity of getting to know a gentleman he hardly ever meets. I do not mean his maker, but himself.
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Let us remember, when we are inclined to be disheartened, that the private soldier is a poor judge of the fortunes of a great battle.
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It is astonishing with how little wisdom mankind can be governed, when that little wisdom is its own.
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Love remembered and consecrated by grief belongs, more clearly than the happy intercourse of friends, to the eternal world it has proved itself stronger than death.
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This is old, therefore it is good the other says, This is new, therefore it is better.
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Faith is an act of rational choice, which determines us to act as if certain things were true, and in the confident expectation that they will prove to be true.
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The statistics of suicide show that, for non-combatants at least, life is more interesting in war than in peace.
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We have enslaved the rest of the animal creation, and have treated our distant cousins in fur and feathers so badly that beyond doubt, if they were able to formulate a religion, they would depict the Devil in human form.
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To become a popular religion, it is only necessary for a superstition to enslave a philosophy.
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Whoever marries the spirit of this age will find himself a widower in the next.
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Civilization is a disease which is almost invariably fatal.
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The soul is dyed by the color of its leisure hours.
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Nobody is bored when he is trying to make something that is beautiful or to discover something that is true.
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Don't break the silence unless you can improve on it.
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My dear, we live in an age of transition.
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