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It is the preoccupation with possessions, more than anything else, that prevents us from living freely and nobly.

Bertrand Russell

Three passions, simple but overwhelmingly strong, have governed my life: the longing for love, the search for knowledge, and unbearable pity for the suffering of mankind.
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Knowledge Life Love Passion Search Simplicity Strong Suffering
We love our habits more than our income, often more than our life.
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Deep Habit Life Love Ourselves
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
The secret of happiness is to face the fact that the world is horrible, horrible, horrible.
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Deep Happiness Secret World
Freedom of opinion can only exist when the government thinks itself secure.
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Existence Freedom Opinion Secure
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
To write a tragedy, a man must feel the tragedy. To feel tragedy, a man must be aware of the world in which he lives. Not only with his mind, but with his blood and sinews.
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Deep Feeling Man Tragedy Writing
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
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
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
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
Of all forms of caution, caution in love is perhaps the most fatal to true happiness.
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Death Happiness Love True
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
Patriotism is the willingness to kill and be killed for trivial reasons.
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Kill Patriotism Willing
One must care about a world one will not see.
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Deep Future Oneself See World
Do not feel envious of the happiness of those who live in a fool’s paradise, for only a fool will think that it is happiness.
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Deep Feeling Happiness Live

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