Dissolution Quote by William Ralph Inge

“Every institution not only carries within it the seeds of its own dissolution, but prepares the way for its most hated rival.” quote by William Ralph Inge — Download Open image

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

William Ralph Inge

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The world belongs to those who think and act with it, who keep a finger on its pulse.

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They who will live for others shall have great troubles, but they shall seem to them small. Those who will live for themselves shall…

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The vulgar mind always mistakes the exceptional for the important.

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The game of life is worth playing, but the struggle is the prize.

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It is becoming impossible for those who mix at all with their fellow-men to believe that the grace of God is distributed denominationally.

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Beneath the dingy uniformity of international fashions in dress, man remains what he has always been; a splendid fighting animal, a self-sacrificing hero, and…

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The Devil deserves zero tolerance.

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We should think of the church as an orchestra in which the different churches play on different instruments while a Divine Conductor calls the…

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Originality is undetected plagiarism.

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Each generation takes a special pleasure in removing the household gods of its parents from their pedestals, and consigning them to the cupboard.

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Literature flourishes best when it is half a trade and half an art.

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No healthy civilization can ever be reared on a foundation of devitalized work.

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Misery makes you special. Misery makes you more egoistic. A miserable man can have a more concentrated ego than a happy man. A happy man really cannot have the ego, because a person becomes happy only when there is no ego. The more egoless, the more happy; the more happy, the more egoless. You dissolve into happiness. You cannot exist…

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I believe that the dissolution of a marriage comes about by the breaking down of self-esteem.

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Many spiritual seekers who say their wish is to awaken don't actually want what they believe they do. This becomes clear sometimes at the approach to the brink of what feels like a void, where the obliteration of the egoic self seems imminent. With a shocked recognition of what is being asked, the person will recoil. The scale of the…

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He sees such a desperate rapaciousness prevail; such a disregard to equity, such contempt of order, such stupid blindness to future consequences, as must…

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