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Patriotism is the willingness to kill and be killed for trivial reasons.

Bertrand Russell

Never try to discourage thinking, for you are sure to succeed.
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Success Thinking Try
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
None of our beliefs are quite true; all have at least a penumbra of vagueness and error.
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Believe Ourselves Philosophy Quite True
To be without some of the things you want is an indispensable part of happiness.
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Happiness Philosophy Satisfaction
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
How much longer is the world willing to endure this spectacle of wanton cruelty?
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Endurance Philosophy Willing World
Anything you’re good at contributes to happiness.
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Goodness Happiness Yourself
A man is rational in proportion as his intelligence informs and controls his desires.
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Desire Intelligence Man
No one ever gossips about the virtues of others.
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Oneself Virtue
The use of self-control is like the use of brakes on the train. It is useful when you find yourself in the wrong direction but merely harmful when the direction is right.
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Control Direction Harm Wrong Yourself
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
I consider the official Catholic attitude on divorce, birth control, and censorship exceedingly dangerous to mankind.
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Danger Man Myself Religion
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
The secret of happiness is to face the fact that the world is horrible, horrible, horrible.
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Deep Happiness Secret World
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

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