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Nothing is so exhausting as indecision, and nothing is so futile.

Bertrand Russell

To like many people spontaneously and without effort is perhaps the greatest of all sources of personal happiness.
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Effort Greatness Happiness People Philosophy
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
Fear is the parent of cruelty, and therefore it is no wonder if cruelty and religion have gone hand in hand.
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Deep Fear Hands Religion
I consider the official Catholic attitude on divorce, birth control, and censorship exceedingly dangerous to mankind.
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Danger Man Myself Religion
It is a waste of energy to be angry with a man who behaves badly, just as it is to be angry with a car that won’t go.
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Angry Energy Philosophy Waste
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
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
Extreme hopes are born from extreme misery.
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Born Hope Misery
Every man, wherever he goes, is encompassed by a cloud of comforting convictions, which move with him like flies on a summer day.
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Comfortable Man Philosophy
Machines have altered our way of life, but not our instincts. Consequently, there is maladjustment.
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Deep Life Ourselves Way
I believe that when I die I shall rot, and nothing of my ego will survive.
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Believe Death Deep Myself
Never try to discourage thinking, for you are sure to succeed.
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Success Thinking Try
Men are born ignorant, not stupid; they are made stupid by education.
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Born Education Man Stupidity
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
A man is rational in proportion as his intelligence informs and controls his desires.
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Desire Intelligence Man
Do not fear to be eccentric in opinion, for every opinion now accepted was once eccentric.
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Acceptance Be Yourself Deep Fear

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