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Love can flourish only as long as it is free and spontaneous; it tends to be killed by the thought of duty. To say that it is your duty to love so-and-so is the surest way to cause you to hate him of her.

Bertrand Russell

Politics is largely governed by sententious platitudes which are devoid of truth.
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Deep Politics Truth
The fundamental concept in social science is power, in the same sense in which energy is the fundamental concept in physics.
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Energy Fundamental Power Science
This has been my life. I have found it worth living, and would gladly live it again if the chance were offered to me.
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Happiness Life Live Myself Satisfaction Worth
How much longer is the world willing to endure this spectacle of wanton cruelty?
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Endurance Philosophy Willing World
Even if all the experts agree, they may well be mistaken.
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Mistake Science
Philosophy, from the earliest times, has made greater claims, and achieved fewer results, than any other branch of learning.
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Greatness Learning Philosophy Time
Not to be absolutely certain is, I think, one of the essential things in rationality.
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Myself Philosophy Thinking
Extreme hopes are born from extreme misery.
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Born Hope Misery
Conquer the world by intelligence, and not merely by being slavishly subdued by the terror that comes from it.
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Deep Intelligence World
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
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
Few people can be happy unless they hate some other person, nation, or creed.
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Happiness Hate People Person
The demand for certainty is one that is natural to man but is nevertheless an intellectual vice.
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Man Philosophy
Never try to discourage thinking, for you are sure to succeed.
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Success Thinking Try
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
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

Love can flourish only as long as it is free and spontaneous; it tends to be killed by the thought of duty. To say that it is your duty to love so-and-so is the surest way to cause you to hate him of her.

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Love can flourish only as long as it is free and spontaneous; it tends to be killed by the thought of duty. To say that it is your duty to love so-and-so is the surest way to cause you to hate him of her.

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