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We should think of the church as an orchestra in which the different churches play on different instruments while a Divine Conductor calls the tune.
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The great discovery of the nineteenth century, that we are of one blood with the lower animals, has created new ethical obligations which have not yet penetrated the public conscience. The clerical profession has been lamentably remiss in preaching this obvious duty.
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Admiration for ourselves and our institutions is too often measured by our contempt and dislike for foreigners.
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Bereavement is the sharpest challenge to our trust in God if faith can overcome this, there is no mountain which it cannot remove.
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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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We must cut our coat according to our cloth, and adapt ourselves to changing circumstances.
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It is useless for the sheep to pass resolutions in favor of vegetarianism, while the wolf remains of a different opinion.
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Civilization is being poisoned by its own waste products.
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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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My dear, we live in an age of transition.
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A cat can be trusted to purr when she is pleased, which is more than can be said for human beings.
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All faith consists essentially in the recognition of a world of spiritual values behind, yet not apart from, the world of natural phenomena.
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Philosophy means thinking things out for oneself. Ultimately, there can be only one true philosophy, since reason is one and we all live in the same world.
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Beneath the dingy uniformity of international fashions in dress, man remains what he has always been a splendid fighting animal, a self-sacrificing hero, and a blood thirsty savage.
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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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Don't get up from the feast of life without paying for your share of it.
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Our test is infallible. Whatever view of reality deepens our sense of the tremendous issues of life in the world wherein we move, is for us nearer the truth than any view which diminishes that sense.
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Over-population is a phenomenon connected with the survival of the unfit, and it is a mechanism which has created conditions favourable to the survival of the unfit and the elimination of the fit.
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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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The happiest people seem to be those who have no particular cause for being happy except that they are so.
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