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Everything is vague to a degree you do not realize till you have tried to make it precise.

Bertrand Russell

Patriotism is the willingness to kill and be killed for trivial reasons.
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Kill Patriotism Willing
Of all forms of caution, caution in love is perhaps the most fatal to true happiness.
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Death Happiness Love True
Neither a man nor a crowd nor a nation can be trusted to act humanely or to think sanely under the influence of great fear.
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Act Fear Greatness Human Man Trust
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
The secret of happiness is to face the fact that the world is horrible, horrible, horrible.
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Deep Happiness Secret World
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
It is the preoccupation with possessions, more than anything else, that prevents us from living freely and nobly.
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Deep Freedom Philosophy
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
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 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
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
It seems to me fundamental dishonesty, and a fundamental treachery to intellectual integrity to hold a belief because you think it’s useful and not because you think it’s true.
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Believe Fundamental Honesty Integrity Myself Philosophy Thinking Yourself
Nothing is so exhausting as indecision, and nothing is so futile.
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Decision Deep Philosophy
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
The demand for certainty is one that is natural to man but is nevertheless an intellectual vice.
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Man Philosophy
We love our habits more than our income, often more than our life.
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Deep Habit Life Love Ourselves

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