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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

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
Politics is largely governed by sententious platitudes which are devoid of truth.
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Deep Politics Truth
Science may set limits to knowledge, but should not set limits to imagination.
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Imagination Knowledge Limitation Science
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
There are two motives for reading a book; one, that you enjoy it; the other, that you can boast about it.
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Book Enjoyment Reading
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
Remember your humanity, and forget the rest.
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Forget Humanity Remember Yourself
Love is something far more than the desire for sexual intercourse it is the principal means of escape from the loneliness which afflicts most men and women throughout the greater part of their lives.
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Desire Live Lonely Love Man Philosophy Sex Woman
Aristotle maintained that women have fewer teeth than men; although he was twice married, it never occurred to him to verify this statement by examining his wives’ mouths.
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Himself Man Marriage Woman
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
Extreme hopes are born from extreme misery.
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Born Hope Misery
It is the preoccupation with possessions, more than anything else, that prevents us from living freely and nobly.
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Deep Freedom Philosophy
Anything you’re good at contributes to happiness.
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Goodness Happiness Yourself
The good life is inspired by love and guided by knowledge.
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Goodness Inspirational Knowledge Life
Few people can be happy unless they hate some other person, nation, or creed.
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Happiness Hate People Person
To be able to fill leisure intelligently is the last product of civilization, and at present, very few people have reached this level.
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Intelligence Prepare Present
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
Even if all the experts agree, they may well be mistaken.
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Mistake Science
Men are born ignorant, not stupid; they are made stupid by education.
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Born Education Man Stupidity
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
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
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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Comfortable Man Philosophy
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
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
Sin is geographical.
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One Liner Place Sin
Language serves not only to express thought but to make possible thoughts that could not exist without it.
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Deep Existence Language Possible

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