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Don't break the silence unless you can improve on it.
William Ralph Inge
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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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Faith always contains an element of risk, of venture and we are impelled to make the venture by the affinity and attraction which we feel in ourselves.
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A man may build himself a throne of bayonets, but he cannot sit on it.
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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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Don't get up from the feast of life without paying for your share of it.
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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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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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Lutheranism is essentially German... It worships a God who is neither just nor merciful.
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The happy people are those who are producing something.
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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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Take away fear, and the battle of Freedom is half won.
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The object of studying philosophy is to know one's own mind, not other peoples.
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Whoever marries the spirit of this age will find himself a widower in the next.
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All human love is a holy thing, the holiest thing in our experience.
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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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There is no limit to the noble aspirations which the words my country may evoke.
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The game of life is worth playing, but the struggle is the prize.
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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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