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The most savage controversies are those about matters as to which there is no good evidence either way.

Bertrand Russell

The hardest thing to learn in life is which bridge to cross and which to burn.
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Burn Hard Learning Let Go Life
The greatest challenge to any thinker is stating the problem in a way that will allow a solution.
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Greatness Problem Science Thinking
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
The search for something permanent is one of the deepest of the instincts leading men to philosophy.
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Man Philosophy Search
Of all forms of caution, caution in love is perhaps the most fatal to true happiness.
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Death Happiness Love True
I consider the official Catholic attitude on divorce, birth control, and censorship exceedingly dangerous to mankind.
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Danger Man Myself Religion
Every man, wherever he goes, is encompassed by a cloud of comforting convictions, which move with him like flies on a summer day.
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Comfortable Man Philosophy
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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Happiness Life Live Myself Satisfaction Worth
Politics is largely governed by sententious platitudes which are devoid of truth.
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Deep Politics Truth
A man is rational in proportion as his intelligence informs and controls his desires.
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Desire Intelligence Man
Remember your humanity, and forget the rest.
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Forget Humanity Remember Yourself
Patriots always talk of dying for their country but never of killing for their country.
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Death Kill Patriotism Talk
The secret of happiness is to face the fact that the world is horrible, horrible, horrible.
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Deep Happiness Secret World
Not to be absolutely certain is, I think, one of the essential things in rationality.
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Myself Philosophy Thinking
Do not fear to be eccentric in opinion, for every opinion now accepted was once eccentric.
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Acceptance Be Yourself Deep Fear
The demand for certainty is one that is natural to man but is nevertheless an intellectual vice.
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Man Philosophy

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