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Conquer the world by intelligence, and not merely by being slavishly subdued by the terror that comes from it.

Bertrand Russell

Extreme hopes are born from extreme misery.
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Born Hope Misery
Few people can be happy unless they hate some other person, nation, or creed.
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Happiness Hate People Person
I believe in using words, not fists. I believe in my outrage knowing people are living in boxes on the street. I believe in honesty. I believe in a good time. I believe in good food. I believe in sex.
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Believe Food Goodness Honesty Live Myself People Sex Word
Remember your humanity, and forget the rest.
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Forget Humanity Remember Yourself
It is a waste of energy to be angry with a man who behaves badly, just as it is to be angry with a car that won’t go.
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Angry Energy Philosophy Waste
I hate being all tidy like a book in a library where nobody reads – prison is horribly like that.
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Book Hate Reading
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 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
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
Everything is vague to a degree you do not realize till you have tried to make it precise.
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Deep Philosophy Try Yourself
Nothing is so exhausting as indecision, and nothing is so futile.
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Decision Deep Philosophy
I believe that when I die I shall rot, and nothing of my ego will survive.
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Believe Death Deep Myself
In all affairs, it’s a healthy thing now and then to hang a question mark on the things you have long taken for granted.
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Healthy Philosophy
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
Most people would sooner die than think; in fact, they do so.
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Death Deep People Philosophy Thinking
Science is what you know, philosophy is what you don’t know.
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Deep Philosophy Science Yourself

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