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

William Ralph Inge

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There is no law of progress. Our future is in our own hands, to make or to mar. It will be an uphill fight to the end, and would we have it otherwise? Let no one suppose that evolution will ever exempt us from struggles. 'You forget,' said the Devil, with a chuckle, 'that I have been evolving too.
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I have no fear that the candle lighted in Palestine years ago will ever be put out.
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Democracy is only an experiment in government, and it has the obvious disadvantage of merely counting votes instead of weighing them.
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The happy people are those who are producing something.
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The happiest people seem to be those who have no particular cause for being happy except that they are so.
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The game of life is worth playing, but the struggle is the prize.
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The enemies of freedom do not argue they shout and they shoot.
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The fruit of the tree of knowledge always drives man from some paradise or other and even the paradise of fools is not an unpleasant abode while it is habitable.
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Experience proves that none is so cruel as the disillusioned sentimentalist.
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Faith always contains an element of risk, of venture and we are impelled to make the venture by the affinity and attraction which we feel in ourselves.
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What is originality? Undetected plagiarism.
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The world belongs to those who think and act with it, who keep a finger on its pulse.
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Take away fear, and the battle of Freedom is half won.
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The right use of leisure is no doubt a harder problem than the right use of our working hours. The soul is dyed the color of its leisure thoughts.
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It is quite natural and inevitable that, if we spend sixteen hours daily of our waking lives in thinking about the affairs of the world and five minutes in thinking about God and our souls, this world will seem two hundred times more real to us than God.
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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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Literature flourishes best when it is half a trade and half an art.
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Public opinion, a vulgar, impertinent, anonymous tyrant who deliberately makes life unpleasant for anyone who is not content to the average person.
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The average man is rich enough when he has a little more than he has got.
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