It is the preoccupation with possessions, more than anything else, that prevents us from living freely and nobly.
BERTRAND RUSSELLPatriots always talk of dying for their country but never of killing for their country.
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Three passions, simple but overwhelmingly strong, have governed my life: the longing for love, the search for knowledge, and unbearable pity for the suffering of mankind.
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Patriots always talk of dying for their country but never of killing for their country.
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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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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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Never try to discourage thinking, for you are sure to succeed.
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The secret of happiness is to face the fact that the world is horrible, horrible, horrible.
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Life is nothing but a competition to be the criminal rather than the victim.
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No one gossips about other people’s secret virtues.
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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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Freedom of opinion can only exist when the government thinks itself secure.
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How much longer is the world willing to endure this spectacle of wanton cruelty?
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One must care about a world one will not see.
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One of the symptoms of an approaching nervous breakdown is the belief that one’s work is terribly important.
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Science may set limits to knowledge, but should not set limits to imagination.
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Do not fear to be eccentric in opinion, for every opinion now accepted was once eccentric.
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