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Never try to discourage thinking, for you are sure to succeed.

Bertrand Russell

It is a waste of energy to be angry with a man who behaves badly, just as it is to be angry with a car that won’t go.
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Angry Energy Philosophy Waste
The search for something permanent is one of the deepest of the instincts leading men to philosophy.
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Man Philosophy Search
So far as I can remember there is not one word in the gospels in praise of intelligence.
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Intelligence Myself Religious Remember
This has been my life. I have found it worth living, and would gladly live it again if the chance were offered to me.
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Happiness Life Live Myself Satisfaction Worth
Life is nothing but a competition to be the criminal rather than the victim.
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Crime Deep Life Philosophy Reality
Never try to discourage thinking, for you are sure to succeed.
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Success Thinking Try
One of the symptoms of an approaching nervous breakdown is the belief that one’s work is terribly important.
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Believe Important Oneself
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
Few people can be happy unless they hate some other person, nation, or creed.
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Happiness Hate People Person
Love can flourish only as long as it is free and spontaneous; it tends to be killed by the thought of duty. To say that it is your duty to love so-and-so is the surest way to cause you to hate him of her.
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Freedom Hate Kill Love Philosophy Relationship
A happy life must be to a great extent a quiet life, for it is only in an atmosphere of quiet that true joy can live.
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Greatness Happiness Live Quiet True
Extreme hopes are born from extreme misery.
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Born Hope Misery
To be able to fill leisure intelligently is the last product of civilization, and at present, very few people have reached this level.
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Intelligence Prepare Present
Man is a credulous animal, and must believe something; in the absence of good grounds for belief, he will be satisfied with bad ones.
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Absence Animal Believe Man Philosophy Satisfaction
Remember your humanity, and forget the rest.
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Forget Humanity Remember Yourself
Anything you’re good at contributes to happiness.
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Goodness Happiness Yourself

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