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Politics is largely governed by sententious platitudes which are devoid of truth.

Bertrand Russell

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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Freedom Hate Kill Love Philosophy Relationship
Anything you’re good at contributes to happiness.
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Goodness Happiness Yourself
The good life is inspired by love and guided by knowledge.
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Goodness Inspirational Knowledge Life
Conventional people are roused to fury by departure from convention, largely because they regard such departure as a criticism of themselves.
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Angry Leave People Philosophy
Patriots always talk of dying for their country but never of killing for their country.
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Death Kill Patriotism Talk
The fundamental cause of the trouble is that in the modern world the stupid are cocksure while the intelligent are full of doubt.
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Doubt Fundamental Intelligence World
Mathematics, rightly viewed, possesses not only truth but supreme beauty – a beauty cold and austere.
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Beautiful Mathematics Truth View
I believe that when I die I shall rot, and nothing of my ego will survive.
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Believe Death Deep Myself
Love is wise, hatred is foolish.
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Hate Love One Liner Wisdom
The most savage controversies are those about matters as to which there is no good evidence either way.
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Evidence Goodness Savage
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
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
I say quite deliberately that the Christian religion, as organized in its churches, has been and still is the principal enemy of moral progress in the world.
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Enemy Quite Religion World
Dogmatism is the greatest of mental obstacles to human happiness.
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Greatness Happiness Human Mental Obstacle
Sometimes the hardest thing in life is to know which bridge to cross and which to burn.
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End Let Go Life
Life is nothing but a competition to be the criminal rather than the victim.
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Crime Deep Life Philosophy Reality

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