Civilization is being poisoned by its own waste products.


William Ralph Inge

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INGE DE BRUIJN
It is astonishing with how little wisdom mankind can be governed, when that little wisdom is its o...
W. R. INGE
Adaptability: A wise man adapts himself to circumstances as water shapes itself to the vessel that c...
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The nations which have put mankind and posterity most in their debt have been small states Israel, A...
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Theater is, of course, a reflection of life. Maybe we have to improve life before we can hope to imp...
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The church is only a secular institution in which the half-educated speak to the half-converted
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There are two kinds of fools: one says, "This is old, therefore it is good"; the other says, "This i...
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Many people believe that they are attracted by God or by nature, when they are only repelled by man.
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To become a popular religion, it is only necessary for a superstition to enslave a philosophy
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Christianity promises to make men free; it never promises to make them independent.
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Worry is interest paid on trouble before it comes due.
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Public opinion, a vulgar, impertinent, anonymous tyrant who deliberately makes life unpleasant for a...
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Experience proves that none is so cruel as the disillusioned sentimentalist
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Worry is interest paid on trouble before it falls due
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Events in the past may be roughly divided into those which probably never happened and those which d...
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The soul is dyed by the color of its leisure hours
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It is becoming impossible for those who mix with their fellow men to believe that the grace of God i...
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Consciousness is a phase of mental life which arises in connection with the formation of new habits....
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It takes in reality only one to make a quarrel. It is useless for the sheep to pass resolutions in f...
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We must cut our coat according to our cloth, and adapt ourselves to changing circumstances
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The happiest people seem to be those who have no particular cause for being happy except that they a...
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We have enslaved the rest of the animal creation, and have treated our distant cousins in fur and fe...
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Originality, I fear, is too often only undetected and frequently unconscious plagiarism
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The command "Be fruitful and multiply" was promulgated according to our authorities, when the popula...
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Patriotism varies, from a noble devotion to a moral lunacy
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A nation is a society united by a delusion about its ancestry and by common hatred of its neighbours...
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The vulgar mind always mistakes the exceptional for the important.
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Literature flourishes best when it is half a trade and half an art.
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The whole of nature, as has been said, is a conjugation of the verb to eat, in the active and passiv...
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Nobody is bored when he is trying to make something that is beautiful or to discover something that ...
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We are distressed because our churches are half empty; and many of them would be emptier if the Gosp...
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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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Civilization is being poisoned by its own waste products
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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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I have never understood why it should be considered derogatory to the Creator to suppose that he has...
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Prayer gives a man the opportunity of getting to know a gentleman he hardly ever meets. I do not mea...
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It is useless for the sheep to pass resolutions in favor of vegetarianism while the wolf remains of ...
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