The fundamental cause of the trouble is that in the modern world the stupid are cocksure while the intelligent are full of doubt.
BERTRAND RUSSELLPatriots always talk of dying for their country but never of killing for their country.
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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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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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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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Patriots always talk of dying for their country but never of killing for their country.
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Few people can be happy unless they hate some other person, nation, or creed.
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The only thing that will redeem mankind is cooperation.
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Conquer the world by intelligence, and not merely by being slavishly subdued by the terror that comes from it.
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Nothing is so exhausting as indecision, and nothing is so futile.
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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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To fear love is to fear life, and those who fear life are already 3 parts dead.
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To write a tragedy, a man must feel the tragedy. To feel tragedy, a man must be aware of the world in which he lives. Not only with his mind, but with his blood and sinews.
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The hardest thing to learn in life is which bridge to cross and which to burn.
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One of the most powerful of all our passions is the desire to be admired and respected.
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The whole problem with the world is that fools and fanatics are always so certain of themselves, and wiser people so full of doubts.
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It’s easy to fall in love. The hard part is finding someone to catch you.
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