The greatest obstacle to ...

The greatest obstacle to progress is not man\'s inherited pugnacity, but his incorrigible tendency to parasitism.
The greatest obstacle to progress is not man's inherited pugnacity, but his incorrigible tendency to parasitism.
 William Ralph Inge

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If a man watches three football games in a row, he should be declared legally dead.
The truth is not for all men, but only for those who seek it.
A man must be big enough to admit his mistakes, smart enough to profit from them, and strong enough to correct them.
Each man has his own vocation; his talent is his call. There is one direction in which all space is open to him.
The superior man is modest in his speech but exceeds in his actions.

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The jealous man is so preoccupied with what he hasn't got that he fails to appreciate the value of what he has got. He loses the ability to feel glad because the sun is shining. He doesn't see the wonder and the newness of the beginning of spring.
 William Ralph Inge
We have enslaved the rest of the animal creation, and have treated our distant cousins in fur and feathers so badly that beyond doubt, if they were able to formulate a religion, they would depict the Devil in human form.
 William Ralph Inge
The fruit of the tree of knowledge always drives man from some paradise or other; and even the paradise of fools is not an unpleasant abode while it is habitable.
 William Ralph Inge
Even the paradise of fools is not an unpleasant abode while it is inhabitable.
 William Ralph Inge
True faith is belief in the reality of absolute values.
 William Ralph Inge