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Religion is caught, not taught.

William Ralph Inge

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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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Patriotism varies, from a noble devotion to a moral lunacy.
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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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The statistics of suicide show that, for non-combatants at least, life is more interesting in war than in peace.
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Civilization is a disease which is almost invariably fatal.
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Lutheranism is essentially German... It worships a God who is neither just nor merciful.
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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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Faith is an act of self-consecration, in which the will, the intellect, and the affections all have their place.
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The aim of education is the knowledge, not of facts, but of values.
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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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What is originality? Undetected plagiarism.
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This is old, therefore it is good the other says, This is new, therefore it is better.
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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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Every institution not only carries within it the seeds of its own dissolution, but prepares the way for its most hated rival.
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A man may build himself a throne of bayonets, but he cannot sit on it.
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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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Civilization is being poisoned by its own waste products.
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