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Nature takes away any faculty that is not used.

William Ralph Inge

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In imperialism nothing fails like success. If the conqueror oppresses his subjects, they will become fanatical patriots, and sooner or later have their revenge if he treats them well, and governs them for their good, they will multiply faster than their rulers, till they claim their independence.
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Let none of us delude himself by supposing that honesty is always the best policy. It is not.
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Experience is a good teacher, but her fees are very high.
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The church that is married to the spirit of this age, becomes a widow in the next.
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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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The enemies of freedom do not argue they shout and they shoot.
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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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The happy people are those who are producing something.
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A good government remains the greatest of human blessings and no nation has ever enjoyed it.
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Man, as we know him, is a poor creature he is halfway between an ape and a god and he is travelling in the right direction.
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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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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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Originality is undetected plagiarism.
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God does not always punish a nation by sending it adversity. More often He gives the oppressors their hearts' desire, and sends leanness withal into their soul.
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If the universe is running down like a clock, the clock must have been wound up at a date which we could name if we knew it. The world, if it is to have an end in time, must have had a beginning in time.
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Boredom is a certain sign that we are allowing our faculties to rust in idleness.
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Man will never be entirely willing to give up this world for the next nor the next world for this.
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Each generation takes a special pleasure in removing the household gods of its parents from their pedestals, and consigning them to the cupboard.
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