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

Bertrand Russell

I consider the official Catholic attitude on divorce, birth control, and censorship exceedingly dangerous to mankind.
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Danger Man Myself Religion
How much longer is the world willing to endure this spectacle of wanton cruelty?
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Endurance Philosophy Willing World
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
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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Doubt Existence God Myself Religion Thinking
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
I believe that when I die I shall rot, and nothing of my ego will survive.
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Believe Death Deep Myself
The secret of happiness is very simple: let your interests be as wide as possible, and let your reactions to the things and persons that interest you be as far as possible friendly rather than hostile.
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Friendship Happiness Philosophy Secret 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
To write a tragedy, a man must feel the tragedy. To feel tragedy, a man must be aware of the world in which he lives. Not only with his mind, but with his blood and sinews.
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Deep Feeling Man Tragedy Writing
No one gossips about other people’s secret virtues.
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People Secret Virtue
Freedom of opinion can only exist when the government thinks itself secure.
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Existence Freedom Opinion Secure
Sin is geographical.
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One Liner Place Sin
Most people would sooner die than think; in fact, they do so.
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Death Deep People Philosophy Thinking
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
Life is nothing but a competition to be the criminal rather than the victim.
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Crime Deep Life Philosophy Reality
One of the painful things about our time is that those who feel certainty are stupid, and those with any imagination and understanding are filled with doubt and indecision.
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Feeling Imagination Ourselves Pain Time Understand

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