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Your writing is never as good as you hoped, but never as bad as you feared.

Bertrand Russell

Patriotism is the willingness to kill and be killed for trivial reasons.
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Kill Patriotism Willing
Mathematics rightly viewed possesses not only truth but supreme beauty.
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Beautiful Mathematics Truth View
No one gossips about other people’s secret virtues.
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People Secret Virtue
The hardest thing to learn in life is which bridge to cross and which to burn.
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Burn Hard Learning Let Go Life
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
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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Himself Man Marriage Woman
How much longer is the world willing to endure this spectacle of wanton cruelty?
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Endurance Philosophy Willing World
Love is wise, hatred is foolish.
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Hate Love One Liner Wisdom
Of all forms of caution, caution in love is perhaps the most fatal to true happiness.
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Death Happiness Love True
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
Sin is geographical.
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One Liner Place Sin
There are two motives for reading a book; one, that you enjoy it; the other, that you can boast about it.
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Book Enjoyment Reading
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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Doubt Problem Wisdom World
Do not feel envious of the happiness of those who live in a fool’s paradise, for only a fool will think that it is happiness.
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Deep Feeling Happiness Live
The greatest challenge to any thinker is stating the problem in a way that will allow a solution.
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Greatness Problem Science Thinking
Science is what you know, philosophy is what you don’t know.
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Deep Philosophy Science Yourself

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