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This has been my life. I have found it worth living, and would gladly live it again if the chance were offered to me.

Bertrand Russell

Mathematics, rightly viewed, possesses not only truth but supreme beauty – a beauty cold and austere.
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Beautiful Mathematics Truth View
Remember your humanity, and forget the rest.
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Forget Humanity Remember Yourself
And if there were a God, I think it very unlikely that he would have such an uneasy vanity as to be offended by those who doubt his existence.
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Doubt Existence God Myself Religion Thinking
Most people would sooner die than think; in fact, they do so.
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Death Deep People Philosophy Thinking
There are two motives for reading a book; one, that you enjoy it; the other, that you can boast about it.
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Book Enjoyment Reading
A sense of duty is useful in work but offensive in personal relations. People wish to be liked, not to be endured with patient resignation.
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Endurance Patience People Relationship
Is there any knowledge in the world that is so certain that no reasonable man could doubt it?
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Doubt Knowledge Philosophy World
Life is nothing but a competition to be the criminal rather than the victim.
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Crime Deep Life Philosophy Reality
We love our habits more than our income, often more than our life.
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Deep Habit Life Love Ourselves
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
I consider the official Catholic attitude on divorce, birth control, and censorship exceedingly dangerous to mankind.
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Danger Man Myself Religion
How much longer is the world willing to endure this spectacle of wanton cruelty?
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Endurance Philosophy Willing World
A man is rational in proportion as his intelligence informs and controls his desires.
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Desire Intelligence Man
Nothing is so exhausting as indecision, and nothing is so futile.
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Decision Deep 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
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

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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