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Action is the normal completion of the act of will which begins as prayer. That action is not always external, but it is always some kind of effective energy. ↗

— Dean Inge

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The wisdom of the wise is an uncommon degree of common sense. ↗

— Dean Inge

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Bereavement is the sharpest challenge to our trust in God; if faith can overcome this, there is no mountain which it cannot remove. ↗

— Dean Inge

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All faith consists essentially in the recognition of a world of spiritual values behind, yet not apart from, the world of natural phenomena. ↗

— Dean Inge

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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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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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Her face betokened all things dear and good, The light of somewhat yet to come was there Asleep, and waiting for the opening day, When childish thoughts, like flowers would drift away. ↗

— Jean Ingelow

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It is a thousand times better to have common sense without education than to have education without common sense. ↗

— Robert Green Ingersoll

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This is a coup for commissioner Bud Selig. I'm surprised it's as good as it is. ↗

— Fay Vincent

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It is a blessed thing that in every age some one has had the individuality enough and courage enough to stand by his own convictions. ↗

— Robert Green Ingersoll

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