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The happy people are those who are producing something.
William Ralph Inge
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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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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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Consciousness is a phase of mental life which arises in connection with the formation of new habits. When habit is formed, consciousness only interferes to spoil our performance.
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My dear, we live in an age of transition.
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To marry is to get a binocular view of life.
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They who will live for others shall have great troubles, but they shall seem to them small. Those who will live for themselves shall have small troubles, but they shall seem to them great.
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The effect of boredom on a large scale in history is underestimated. It is a main cause of revolutions, and would soon bring to an end all the static Utopias and the farmyard civilization of the Fabians.
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There is no limit to the noble aspirations which the words my country may evoke.
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When our first parents were driven out of Paradise, Adam is believed to have remarked to Eve, My dear, we live in an age of transition.
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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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Joy is the triumph of life it is the sign that we are living our true life as spiritual 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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The world belongs to those who think and act with it, who keep a finger on its pulse.
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What is originality? Undetected plagiarism.
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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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Don't get up from the feast of life without paying for your share of it.
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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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Literature flourishes best when it is half a trade and half an art.
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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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The modern world belongs to the half-educated, a rather difficult class, because they do not realize how little they know.
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