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Religion is caught, not taught.
William Ralph Inge
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The command, 'Be fruitful and multiply', was promulgated, according to our authorities, when the population of the world consisted of two persons.
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Worry is interest paid on trouble before it comes due.
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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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Action is the normal completion of the act of will which begins as prayer. That action is not always external, but it is always some kind of effective energy.
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The enemies of freedom do not argue they shout and they shoot.
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Experience is a good teacher, but her fees are very high.
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A nation is a society united by a delusion about its ancestry and by common hatred of its neighbours.
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The vulgar mind always mistakes the exceptional for the important.
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A man may build himself a throne of bayonets, but he cannot sit on 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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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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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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I have never understood why it should be considered derogatory to the Creator to suppose that he has a sense of humour.
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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 soul is dyed by the color of its leisure hours.
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The whole of nature, as has been said, is a conjugation of the verb to eat, in the active and in the passive.
William Ralph Inge
To marry is to get a binocular view of life.
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Faith is an act of rational choice, which determines us to act as if certain things were true, and in the confident expectation that they will prove to be true.
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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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No Christian can be a pessimist, for Christianity is a system of radical optimism.
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