To fear love is to fear life, and those who fear life are already 3 parts dead.
BERTRAND RUSSELLPatriots always talk of dying for their country but never of killing for their country.
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To be without some of the things you want is an indispensable part of happiness.
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Most people would sooner die than think; in fact, they do so.
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One of the most powerful of all our passions is the desire to be admired and respected.
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Few people can be happy unless they hate some other person, nation, or creed.
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The hardest thing to learn in life is which bridge to cross and which to burn.
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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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Men who are unhappy, like men who sleep badly, are always proud of the fact.
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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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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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The whole problem with the world is that fools and fanatics are always so certain of themselves, and wiser people so full of doubts.
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Everything is vague to a degree you do not realize till you have tried to make it precise.
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A happy life must be to a great extent a quiet life, for it is only in an atmosphere of quiet that true joy can live.
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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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The fundamental cause of the trouble is that in the modern world the stupid are cocksure while the intelligent are full of doubt.
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The most savage controversies are those about matters as to which there is no good evidence either way.
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