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Patriots always talk of dying for their country but never of killing for their country.

Bertrand Russell

Anything you’re good at contributes to happiness.
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Goodness Happiness Yourself
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
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
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
Neither a man nor a crowd nor a nation can be trusted to act humanely or to think sanely under the influence of great fear.
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Act Fear Greatness Human Man Trust
Boredom is therefore a vital problem for the moralist, since at least half the sins of mankind are caused by the fear of it.
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Deep Fear Mankind Problem Sin
Not to be absolutely certain is, I think, one of the essential things in rationality.
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Myself Philosophy Thinking
The use of self-control is like the use of brakes on the train. It is useful when you find yourself in the wrong direction but merely harmful when the direction is right.
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Control Direction Harm Wrong Yourself
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
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
Patriotism is the willingness to kill and be killed for trivial reasons.
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Kill Patriotism Willing
The secret of happiness is to face the fact that the world is horrible, horrible, horrible.
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Deep Happiness Secret World
Extreme hopes are born from extreme misery.
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Born Hope Misery
The most savage controversies are those about matters as to which there is no good evidence either way.
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Evidence Goodness Savage
No one ever gossips about the virtues of others.
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Oneself Virtue
No one gossips about other people’s secret virtues.
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People Secret Virtue

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