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

Bertrand Russell

There is no reason to suppose that the world had a beginning at all. The idea that things must have a beginning is really due to the poverty of our thoughts.
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Beginning Ideas Philosophy Reason World
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
I consider the official Catholic attitude on divorce, birth control, and censorship exceedingly dangerous to mankind.
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Danger Man Myself Religion
We love our habits more than our income, often more than our life.
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Deep Habit Life Love Ourselves
If there were in the world today any large number of people who desired their own happiness more than they desired the unhappiness of others, we could have paradise in a few years.
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Desire Happiness People Philosophy World
To fear love is to fear life, and those who fear life are already 3 parts dead.
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Death Fear Life Love Philosophy
I think we ought always to entertain our opinions with some measure of doubt. I shouldn’t wish people dogmatically to believe any philosophy, not even mine.
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Believe Doubt Myself People Philosophy Thinking
Machines have altered our way of life, but not our instincts. Consequently, there is maladjustment.
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Deep Life Ourselves Way
Nothing is so exhausting as indecision, and nothing is so futile.
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Decision Deep Philosophy
Patriotism is the willingness to kill and be killed for trivial reasons.
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Kill Patriotism Willing
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
To be without some of the things you want is an indispensable part of happiness.
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Happiness Philosophy Satisfaction
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
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
Not to be absolutely certain is, I think, one of the essential things in rationality.
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Myself Philosophy Thinking
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

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