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There are two motives for reading a book; one, that you enjoy it; the other, that you can boast about it.

Bertrand Russell

In all affairs, it’s a healthy thing now and then to hang a question mark on the things you have long taken for granted.
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Healthy Philosophy
None of our beliefs are quite true; all have at least a penumbra of vagueness and error.
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Believe Ourselves Philosophy Quite True
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
Patriotism is the willingness to kill and be killed for trivial reasons.
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Kill Patriotism Willing
The fundamental cause of the trouble is that in the modern world the stupid are cocksure while the intelligent are full of doubt.
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Doubt Fundamental Intelligence 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
How much longer is the world willing to endure this spectacle of wanton cruelty?
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Endurance Philosophy Willing World
The good life is inspired by love and guided by knowledge.
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Goodness Inspirational Knowledge Life
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
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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Feeling Imagination Ourselves Pain Time Understand
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
No nation was ever so virtuous as each believes itself, and none was ever so wicked as each believes the other.
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Believe Deep Nation Virtue
Sin is geographical.
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One Liner Place Sin
Anything you’re good at contributes to happiness.
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Goodness Happiness Yourself
One of the most powerful of all our passions is the desire to be admired and respected.
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Desire Ourselves Passion Power Respect

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