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The secret of happiness is very simple: let your interests be as wide as possible, and let your reactions to the things and persons that interest you be as far as possible friendly rather than hostile.

Bertrand Russell

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
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
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
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
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
Whoever wishes to become a philosopher must learn not to be frightened by absurdities.
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Fear Mad Philosophy
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
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
The search for something permanent is one of the deepest of the instincts leading men to philosophy.
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Man Philosophy Search
It has been said that man is a rational animal. All my life I have been searching for evidence that could support this.
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Animal Evidence Life Man Myself Philosophy Search Support
What is wanted is not the will to believe, but the will to find out, which is the exact opposite.
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Believe Deep Willing
I would never die for my beliefs because I might be wrong.
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Believe Death Myself Wrong
No one gossips about other people’s secret virtues.
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People Secret Virtue
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
I hate being all tidy like a book in a library where nobody reads – prison is horribly like that.
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Book Hate Reading
Anything you’re good at contributes to happiness.
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Goodness Happiness Yourself

The secret of happiness is very simple: let your interests be as wide as possible, and let your reactions to the things and persons that interest you be as far as possible friendly rather than hostile.

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The secret of happiness is very simple: let your interests be as wide as possible, and let your reactions to the things and persons that interest you be as far as possible friendly rather than hostile.

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