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My dear, we live in an age of transition.

William Ralph Inge

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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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A good government remains the greatest of human blessings and no nation has ever enjoyed it.
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Lutheranism is essentially German... It worships a God who is neither just nor merciful.
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The church is only a secular institution in which the half-educated speak to the half-converted.
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In praising science, it does not follow that we must adopt the very poor philosophies which scientific men have constructed. In philosophy they have much more to learn than to teach.
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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 statistics of suicide show that, for non-combatants at least, life is more interesting in war than in peace.
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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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Deliberate cruelty to our defenceless and beautiful little cousins is surely one of the meanest and most detestable vices of which a human being can be guilty.
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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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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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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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The proper time to influence the character of a child is about a hundred years before he is born.
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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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Admiration for ourselves and our institutions is too often measured by our contempt and dislike for foreigners.
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Don't get up from the feast of life without paying for your share of it.
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