Civilization is being poisoned by its own waste products


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DEAN INGE
To marry is to get a binocular view of life.
DEAN INGE
Action is the normal completion of the act of will which begins as prayer. That action is not always...
DEAN INGE
Literature flourishes best when it is half trade and half an art.
DEAN INGE
Is there, as the medieval mystics taught, a "spark" at the core of the Soul, which never consents to...
DEAN INGE
Our test is infallible. Whatever view of reality deepens our sense of the tremendous issues of life ...
DEAN INGE
Understandably, this is a stretched target.
INGE ZAAMWANI
The hospital considered it justified in placing the person under monitoring and alerting the Belgian...
INGE YOORIS
When this turns into a law enforcement issue, which we perceive forced evacuation is, regular troops...
JOSEPH INGE
Success in war underpins the claims to greatness of many presidents.
R. W. APPLE, JR.
Some of our best journalists take themselves even more seriously than the politicians they write abo...
R. W. APPLE, JR.
The product of extraordinary wealth allied to a taste for the sumptuous.
R. W. APPLE, JR.
The sense of national catastrophe is inevitably heightened in a television age, when the whole count...
R. W. APPLE, JR.
Maimed but still magnificent... Europe's mightiest medieval cathedral.
R. W. APPLE, JR.
Mr. Reagan spent World War II, the global conflict fought and won by his generation, making training...
R. W. APPLE, JR.
Europe and the U.K. are yesterday's world. Tomorrow is in the United States.
R. W. ''TINY'' ROWLAND
You handle depression in much the same way you handle a tiger.
DR. R. W. SHEPHERD
If depression is creeping up and must be faced, learn something about the nature of the beast: You m...
DR. R. W. SHEPHERD
Well concerning the world records that I did, I think it helps a lot to me, yeah. I think it's a...
INGE DE BRUIJN
I always think it's because of you know hard work, hard training. And if Susie's training ha...
INGE DE BRUIJN
And I mean I never doubt anybody's record.
INGE DE BRUIJN
I love to smile.
INGE DE BRUIJN
The happiest people seem to be those who have no particular cause for being happy except that they a...
WILLIAM RALPH INGE
Worry is interest paid on trouble before it is due.
WILLIAM RALPH INGE
It is useless for sheep to pass resolutions in favor of vegetarianism while wolves remain of a diffe...
WILLIAM RALPH INGE
The church is only a secular institution in which the half-educated speak to the half-converted.
WILLIAM RALPH INGE
A nation is a society united by a delusion about it's ancestry and by a common hatred of it's neig...
WILLIAM RALPH INGE
Nobody is bored when he is trying to make something that is beautiful, or to discover something that...
WILLIAM RALPH INGE
It is useless for the sheep to pass resolutions in favour of vegetarianism, while the wolf remains ...
WILLIAM RALPH INGE
Events in the past may be roughly divided into those which probably never happened and those which d...
WILLIAM RALPH INGE
It is astonishing with how little wisdom mankind can be governed, when that little wisdom is its own...
WILLIAM RALPH INGE
Public opinion, a vulgar, impertinent, anonymous tyrant who deliberately makes life unpleasant for a...
WILLIAM RALPH INGE
We have enslaved the rest of the animal creation, and have treated our distant cousins in fur and fe...
WILLIAM RALPH INGE
A man may build himself a throne of bayonets, but he can't sit on it.
WILLIAM RALPH INGE
A nation is a society united by a delusion about its ancestry and by common hatred of its neighbours...
WILLIAM RALPH INGE
I think middle-age is the best time, if we can escape the fatty degeneration of the conscience which...
WILLIAM RALPH INGE
Every institution not only carries within it the seeds of its own dissolution, but prepares the way ...
WILLIAM RALPH INGE
I have never understood why it should be considered derogatory to the Creator to suppose that he has...
WILLIAM RALPH INGE