"To marry is to get a binocular view of life."

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William Ralph Inge

“Trusting God is the answer. He will never let you down.”
“It seems like the first law of Nature is that everybody likes to receive things, but nobody likes to feel grateful.”
“A day's pay for a day's work is more than adequate when both the work and the pay are appreciated as much as they are expected.”
“I've often been flabbergasted by modern pharmaceutical ads on television. The list of side effects for some maladies often sound worse than the condition they're supposed to treat. Once I even heard "heart failure" listed as a side effect, and I wondered how that happened. Heart failure sounds like a pretty major event to me, and if you're willing to risk heart failure in order to avoid the mild discomfort of some other condition, then may the gods shield you from harm, since you're obviously seeking it out.”
“Language furnishes the best proof that a law accepted by a community is a thing that is tolerated and not a rule to which all freely consent.”

Source : Ferdinand de Saussure, Wade Baskin (2011). “Course in General Linguistics”, p.71, Columbia University Press
“The idea of imposing universal peace on the world by force is a barbarian fantasy.”
“Music is 'significant form,' and its significance is that of a symbol, a highly articulated, sensuous object, which by virtue of its dynamic structure can express the forms of vital experience which language is peculiarly unfit to convey. Feeling, life, motion and emotion constitute its import.”
“The major value in life is not what you get. The major value in life is what you become. That is why I wish to pay fair price for every value. If I have to pay for it or earn it, that makes something of me. If I get it for free, that makes nothing of me.”

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