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Conquer the world by intelligence, and not merely by being slavishly subdued by the terror that comes from it.

Bertrand Russell

No one ever gossips about the virtues of others.
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Oneself Virtue
Three passions, simple but overwhelmingly strong, have governed my life: the longing for love, the search for knowledge, and unbearable pity for the suffering of mankind.
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Knowledge Life Love Passion Search Simplicity Strong Suffering
Politics is largely governed by sententious platitudes which are devoid of truth.
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Deep Politics Truth
Of all forms of caution, caution in love is perhaps the most fatal to true happiness.
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Death Happiness Love True
Love is something far more than the desire for sexual intercourse it is the principal means of escape from the loneliness which afflicts most men and women throughout the greater part of their lives.
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Desire Live Lonely Love Man Philosophy Sex Woman
I believe in using words, not fists. I believe in my outrage knowing people are living in boxes on the street. I believe in honesty. I believe in a good time. I believe in good food. I believe in sex.
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Believe Food Goodness Honesty Live Myself People Sex Word
Men who are unhappy, like men who sleep badly, are always proud of the fact.
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Happiness Man Philosophy
Neither a man nor a crowd nor a nation can be trusted to act humanely or to think sanely under the influence of great fear.
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Act Fear Greatness Human Man Trust
Nothing is so exhausting as indecision, and nothing is so futile.
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Decision Deep Philosophy
We know very little, and yet it is astonishing that we know so much, and still more astonishing that so little knowledge can give us so much power.
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Deep Knowledge Philosophy
And if there were a God, I think it very unlikely that he would have such an uneasy vanity as to be offended by those who doubt his existence.
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Doubt Existence God Myself Religion Thinking
The use of self-control is like the use of brakes on the train. It is useful when you find yourself in the wrong direction but merely harmful when the direction is right.
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Control Direction Harm Wrong Yourself
Life is nothing but a competition to be the criminal rather than the victim.
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Crime Deep Life Philosophy Reality
The secret of happiness is to face the fact that the world is horrible, horrible, horrible.
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Deep Happiness Secret World
Mathematics rightly viewed possesses not only truth but supreme beauty.
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Beautiful Mathematics Truth View
A man is rational in proportion as his intelligence informs and controls his desires.
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Desire Intelligence Man

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