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Extreme hopes are born from extreme misery.

Bertrand Russell

If there were in the world today any large number of people who desired their own happiness more than they desired the unhappiness of others, we could have paradise in a few years.
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Desire Happiness People Philosophy World
Nothing is so exhausting as indecision, and nothing is so futile.
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Decision Deep Philosophy
To like many people spontaneously and without effort is perhaps the greatest of all sources of personal happiness.
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Effort Greatness Happiness People 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
I think we ought always to entertain our opinions with some measure of doubt. I shouldn’t wish people dogmatically to believe any philosophy, not even mine.
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Believe Doubt Myself People Philosophy Thinking
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
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
Freedom of opinion can only exist when the government thinks itself secure.
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Existence Freedom Opinion Secure
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 search for something permanent is one of the deepest of the instincts leading men to philosophy.
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Man Philosophy Search
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
Remember your humanity, and forget the rest.
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Forget Humanity Remember Yourself
Politics is largely governed by sententious platitudes which are devoid of truth.
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Deep Politics Truth
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
A man is rational in proportion as his intelligence informs and controls his desires.
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Desire Intelligence Man
Patriots always talk of dying for their country but never of killing for their country.
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Death Kill Patriotism Talk

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