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Sometimes the hardest thing in life is to know which bridge to cross and which to burn.

Bertrand Russell

It is the preoccupation with possessions, more than anything else, that prevents us from living freely and nobly.
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Deep Freedom Philosophy
We love our habits more than our income, often more than our life.
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Deep Habit Life Love Ourselves
It’s easy to fall in love. The hard part is finding someone to catch you.
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Easy Fall In Love Relationship
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
Those who have never known the deep intimacy and the intense companionship of happy mutual love have missed the best thing that life has to give.
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Company Happiness Life Love
Science may set limits to knowledge, but should not set limits to imagination.
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Imagination Knowledge Limitation Science
I consider the official Catholic attitude on divorce, birth control, and censorship exceedingly dangerous to mankind.
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Danger Man Myself Religion
No one gossips about other people’s secret virtues.
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People Secret Virtue
To be without some of the things you want is an indispensable part of happiness.
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Happiness Philosophy Satisfaction
I believe that when I die I shall rot, and nothing of my ego will survive.
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Believe Death Deep Myself
Your writing is never as good as you hoped, but never as bad as you feared.
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Fear Goodness Hope Writing Yourself
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
We know very little, and yet it is astonishing that we know so much, and still more astonishing that so little knowledge can give us so much power.
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Deep Knowledge Philosophy
The wise man thinks about his troubles only when there is some purpose in doing so; at other times he thinks about other things, or, if it is night, about nothing at all.
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Man Night Purpose Thinking Wisdom
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
Patriots always talk of dying for their country but never of killing for their country.
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Death Kill Patriotism Talk

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