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Fear is the parent of cruelty, and therefore it is no wonder if cruelty and religion have gone hand in hand.

Bertrand Russell

I consider the official Catholic attitude on divorce, birth control, and censorship exceedingly dangerous to mankind.
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Danger Man Myself Religion
Do not feel envious of the happiness of those who live in a fool’s paradise, for only a fool will think that it is happiness.
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Deep Feeling Happiness Live
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
Science may set limits to knowledge, but should not set limits to imagination.
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Imagination Knowledge Limitation Science
Conquer the world by intelligence, and not merely by being slavishly subdued by the terror that comes from it.
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Deep Intelligence World
I believe that when I die I shall rot, and nothing of my ego will survive.
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Believe Death Deep Myself
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
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
Men are born ignorant, not stupid; they are made stupid by education.
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Born Education Man Stupidity
No one ever gossips about the virtues of others.
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Oneself Virtue
What is wanted is not the will to believe, but the will to find out, which is the exact opposite.
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Believe Deep Willing
A man is rational in proportion as his intelligence informs and controls his desires.
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Desire Intelligence Man
Mathematics rightly viewed possesses not only truth but supreme beauty.
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Beautiful Mathematics Truth View
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
Never try to discourage thinking, for you are sure to succeed.
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Success Thinking Try
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

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