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One of the symptoms of an approaching nervous breakdown is the belief that one’s work is terribly important.

Bertrand Russell

Patriotism is the willingness to kill and be killed for trivial reasons.
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Kill Patriotism Willing
Do not fear to be eccentric in opinion, for every opinion now accepted was once eccentric.
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Acceptance Be Yourself Deep Fear
I do not myself feel that any person who is really profoundly humane can believe in everlasting punishment.
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Believe Feeling Myself Person Philosophy
It’s easy to fall in love. The hard part is finding someone to catch you.
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Easy Fall In Love Relationship
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
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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Angry Leave People Philosophy
I believe that when I die I shall rot, and nothing of my ego will survive.
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Believe Death Deep Myself
To be without some of the things you want is an indispensable part of happiness.
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Happiness Philosophy Satisfaction
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
How much longer is the world willing to endure this spectacle of wanton cruelty?
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Endurance Philosophy Willing World
Freedom of opinion can only exist when the government thinks itself secure.
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Existence Freedom Opinion Secure
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 nation was ever so virtuous as each believes itself, and none was ever so wicked as each believes the other.
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Believe Deep Nation Virtue
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
It has been said that man is a rational animal. All my life I have been searching for evidence that could support this.
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Animal Evidence Life Man Myself Philosophy Search Support
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

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