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Consciousness is a phase of mental life which arises in connection with the formation of new habits. When habit is formed, consciousness only interferes to spoil our performance.

~William Ralph Inge

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There are no rewards or punishments - only consequences.

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A man may build himself a throne of bayonets, but he can't sit on it.

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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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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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To become a popular religion, it is only necessary for a superstition to enslave a philosophy.

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Whoever marries the spirit of this age will find himself a widower in the next.

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Every institution not only carries within it the seeds of its own dissolution, but prepares the way for its most hated rival.

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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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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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Biography

Nationality: English

Type: Clergyman

Born: June 6th, 1860

Died: February 26th, 1954

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