"Literature flourishes best when it is half a trade and half an art."
-William Ralph Inge
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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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"The enemies of freedom do not argue they shout and they shoot."
-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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"It is astonishing with how little wisdom mankind can be governed, when that little wisdom is its own."
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"A nation is a society united by a delusion about its ancestry and by common hatred of its neighbours."
-William Ralph Inge
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"True faith is belief in the reality of absolute values."
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"The goal of life is to make your heartbeat match the beat of the universe, to match your nature with Nature."
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"I think computer viruses should count as life. I think it says something about human nature that the only form of life we have created so far is purely destructive. We've created life in our own image."
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-Helen Keller
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