"It is astonishing with how little wisdom mankind can be governed, when that little wisdom is its own."
-William Ralph Inge
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"Whoever marries the spirit of this age will find himself a widower in the next.“
-William Ralph Inge
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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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"To become a popular religion, it is only necessary for a superstition to enslave a philosophy."
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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."
-William Ralph Inge
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"The first crocodile I ever caught was at nine years of age, and it was a rescue."
-Steve Irwin
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"Time, in general, has always been a central obsession of mine - what it does to people, how it can constitute a plot all on its own. So naturally, I am interested in old age."
-Anne Tyler
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"Any young man who is unmarried at the age of twenty one is a menace to the community."
-Brigham Young
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"If there is anything I would do differently in my life, it is that I would study business more. I'm trying to teach my daughter Chloe at an early age about investing and money so she's not afraid of it."
-Donna Mills
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"What though youth gave love and roses, Age still leaves us friends and wine."
-Thomas More
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"In a spiritually sensitive culture, then, it might well be that age is something to be admired or envied."
-Rowan D. Williams
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