Extreme hopes are born from extreme misery.
BERTRAND RUSSELL
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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Extreme hopes are born from extreme misery.
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How much longer is the world willing to endure this spectacle of wanton cruelty?
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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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The search for something permanent is one of the deepest of the instincts leading men to philosophy.
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Even if all the experts agree, they may well be mistaken.
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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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Patriots always talk of dying for their country but never of killing for their country.
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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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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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I say quite deliberately that the Christian religion, as organized in its churches, has been and still is the principal enemy of moral progress in the world.
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Most people would sooner die than think; in fact, they do so.
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None of our beliefs are quite true; all have at least a penumbra of vagueness and error.
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Men who are unhappy, like men who sleep badly, are always proud of the fact.
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Patriotism is the willingness to kill and be killed for trivial reasons.
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One of the symptoms of an approaching nervous breakdown is the belief that one’s work is terribly important.
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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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