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Democracy is only an experiment in government, and it has the obvious disadvantage of merely counting votes instead of weighing them. ↗

— Dean Inge

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Faith is an act of rational choice, which determines us to act as if certain things were true, and in the confident expectation that they will prove to be true. ↗

— Dean Inge

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Gambling is a disease of barbarians superficially civilized. ↗

— Dean Inge

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I have no fear that the candle lighted in Palestine years ago will ever be put out. ↗

— Dean Inge

#candle #ever #fear #i #lighted

Bereavement is the deepest initiation into the mysteries of human life, an initiation more searching and profound than even happy love. ↗

— 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

#cannot #challenge #faith #god #mountain

Don't get up from the feast of life without paying for your share of it. ↗

— Dean Inge

#get #life #paying #share #up

Faith always contains an element of risk, of venture; and we are impelled to make the venture by the affinity and attraction which we feel in ourselves. ↗

— Dean Inge

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If the universe is running down like a clock, the clock must have been wound up at a date which we could name if we knew it. The world, if it is to have an end in time, must have had a beginning in time. ↗

— Dean Inge

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In praising science, it does not follow that we must adopt the very poor philosophies which scientific men have constructed. In philosophy they have much more to learn than to teach. ↗

— Dean Inge

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