True faith is belief in the reality of absolute values.

—William Ralph Inge

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About William Ralph Inge

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William Ralph Inge (; 6 June 1860 – 26 February 1954) was an English author, Anglican priest, professor of divinity at Cambridge, and dean of St Paul's Cathedral. Although as an author he used W. R. Inge, and he was personally known as Ralph, he was widely known by his...

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There is no law of progress. Our future is in our own hands, to make or to mar. It will be an uphill fight to the end, and would we have it otherwise? Let no one suppose that evolution will ever exempt us from struggles. 'You forget,' said the Devil, with a chuckle, 'that I have been evolving too.

—William Ralph Inge

The happiest people seem to be those who have no particular cause for being happy except that they are so.

—William Ralph Inge

Events in the past may be roughly divided into those which probably never happened and those which do not matter.

—William Ralph Inge

The aim of education is the knowledge not of facts but of values.

—William Ralph Inge

A nation is a society united by delusions about its ancestry and by common hatred of its neighbors.

—William Ralph Inge

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The aim of education is the knowledge, not of facts, but of values.

—William Inge

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He who undervalues himself is justly undervalued by others.

—William Hazlitt

If we keep treating our most important values as meaningless relics, that's exactly what they'll become.

—Michael Josephson

Nearly all legislation involves a weighing of public needs as against private desires; and likewise a weighing of relative social values.

—Louis D. Brandeis

We live in a time of transition, an uneasy era which is likely to endure for the rest of this century. During the period we may be tempted to abandon some of the time-honored principles and commitments which have been proven during the difficult times of past generations. We must never yield to this temptation. Our American values are not luxuries, but necessities - not the salt in our bread, but the bread itself.

—Jimmy Carter

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