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“Worry is interest paid on trouble before it comes due.”
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“The aim of education is the knowledge, not of facts, but of values.”
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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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“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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“Take away fear, and the battle of Freedom is half won.”
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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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“Theater is, of course, a reflection of life. Maybe we have to improve life before we can hope to improve theater.”
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“The happy people are those who are producing something...”
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“Literature flourishes best when it is half a trade and half an art.”
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“Prayer gives a man the opportunity of getting to know a gentleman he hardly ever meets. I do not mean his maker, but himself.”
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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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“A man may build himself a throne of bayonets, but he cannot sit on it.”
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“No Christian can be a pessimist, for Christianity is a system of radical optimism.”
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“Originality is undetected plagiarism.”
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“Deliberate cruelty to our defenceless and beautiful little cousins is surely one of the meanest and most detestable vices of which a human being can be guilty.”
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“What is originality? Undetected plagiarism.”
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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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“The proper time to influence the character of a child is about a hundred years before he is born.”
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“A good government remains the greatest of human blessings and no nation has ever enjoyed it.”
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“Even the paradise of fools is not an unpleasant abode while it is inhabitable.”
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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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“There are no rewards or punishments - only consequences.”
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“It is astonishing with how little wisdom mankind can be governed, when that little wisdom is its own.”
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“The wisdom of the wise is an uncommon degree of common sense.”
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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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“The greatest obstacle to progress is not man's inherited pugnacity, but his incorrigible tendency to parasitism.”
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“All human love is a holy thing, the holiest thing in our experience.”
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“The vulgar mind always mistakes the exceptional for the important.”
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“If the universe is running down like a clock, the clock must have been wound up at a date which we could name if we knew it. The world, if it is to have an end in time, must have had a beginning in time.”
-- William Ralph Inge
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