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Don't break the silence unless you can improve on it.

William Ralph Inge

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True faith is belief in the reality of absolute values.
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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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The game of life is worth playing, but the struggle is the prize.
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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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I think middle-age is the best time, if we can escape the fatty degeneration of the conscience which often sets in at about fifty.
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Gambling is a disease of barbarians superficially civilized.
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A good government remains the greatest of human blessings and no nation has ever enjoyed it.
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It is becoming impossible for those who mix at all with their fellow-men to believe that the grace of God is distributed denominationally.
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A man may build himself a throne of bayonets, but he cannot sit on it.
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The object of studying philosophy is to know one's own mind, not other peoples.
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No healthy civilization can ever be reared on a foundation of devitalized work.
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The happy people are those who are producing something.
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Civilization is a disease which is almost invariably fatal.
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The greatest obstacle to progress is not man's inherited pugnacity, but his incorrigible tendency to parasitism.
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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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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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There is no law of progress. Our future is in our own hands, to make or to mar. It will be an uphill fight to the end, and would we have it otherwise? Let no one suppose that evolution will ever exempt us from struggles. 'You forget,' said the Devil, with a chuckle, 'that I have been evolving too.
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The soul is dyed by the color of its leisure hours.
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Beautiful thoughts hardly bring us to God until they are acted upon. No one can have a true idea of right until he does it.
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