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

William Ralph Inge

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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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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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The statistics of suicide show that, for non-combatants at least, life is more interesting in war than in peace.
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True faith is belief in the reality of absolute values.
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We must cut our coat according to our cloth, and adapt ourselves to changing circumstances.
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The wealth of a soul is measured by how much it can feel its poverty by how little.
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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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Even the paradise of fools is not an unpleasant abode while it is inhabitable.
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Faith begins as an experiment, and ends as an experience.
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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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No Christian can be a pessimist, for Christianity is a system of radical optimism.
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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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Beneath the dingy uniformity of international fashions in dress, man remains what he has always been a splendid fighting animal, a self-sacrificing hero, and a blood thirsty savage.
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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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Democracy is only an experiment in government, and it has the obvious disadvantage of merely counting votes instead of weighing them.
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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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A good government remains the greatest of human blessings and no nation has ever enjoyed it.
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The wise man is he who knows the relative value of things.
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There is no limit to the noble aspirations which the words my country may evoke.
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We tolerate shapes in human beings that would horrify us if we saw them in a horse.
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