To like many people spontaneously and without effort is perhaps the greatest of all sources of personal happiness.
BERTRAND RUSSELLConquer the world by intelligence, and not merely by being slavishly subdued by the terror that comes from it.
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A sense of duty is useful in work but offensive in personal relations. People wish to be liked, not to be endured with patient resignation.
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Remember your humanity, and forget the rest.
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Sin is geographical.
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Aristotle maintained that women have fewer teeth than men; although he was twice married, it never occurred to him to verify this statement by examining his wives’ mouths.
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The fundamental concept in social science is power, in the same sense in which energy is the fundamental concept in physics.
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Love is wise, hatred is foolish.
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To fear love is to fear life, and those who fear life are already 3 parts dead.
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Few people can be happy unless they hate some other person, nation, or creed.
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Language serves not only to express thought but to make possible thoughts that could not exist without it.
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The most savage controversies are those about matters as to which there is no good evidence either way.
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Sometimes the hardest thing in life is to know which bridge to cross and which to burn.
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One of the painful things about our time is that those who feel certainty are stupid, and those with any imagination and understanding are filled with doubt and indecision.
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It has been said that man is a rational animal. All my life I have been searching for evidence that could support this.
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Even if all the experts agree, they may well be mistaken.
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So far as I can remember there is not one word in the gospels in praise of intelligence.
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