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One of the most powerful of all our passions is the desire to be admired and respected.

Bertrand Russell

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
Extreme hopes are born from extreme misery.
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Born Hope Misery
Anything you’re good at contributes to happiness.
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Goodness Happiness Yourself
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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Greatness Happiness Live Quiet True
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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Doubt Fundamental Intelligence World
Politics is largely governed by sententious platitudes which are devoid of truth.
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Deep Politics Truth
The hardest thing to learn in life is which bridge to cross and which to burn.
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Burn Hard Learning Let Go Life
Dogmatism is the greatest of mental obstacles to human happiness.
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Greatness Happiness Human Mental Obstacle
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
I hate being all tidy like a book in a library where nobody reads – prison is horribly like that.
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Book Hate Reading
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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Doubt Problem Wisdom World
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
Never try to discourage thinking, for you are sure to succeed.
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Success Thinking Try
Life is nothing but a competition to be the criminal rather than the victim.
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Crime Deep Life Philosophy Reality
I think we ought always to entertain our opinions with some measure of doubt. I shouldn’t wish people dogmatically to believe any philosophy, not even mine.
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Believe Doubt Myself People Philosophy Thinking
So far as I can remember there is not one word in the gospels in praise of intelligence.
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Intelligence Myself Religious Remember

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