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

Bertrand Russell

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
Remember your humanity, and forget the rest.
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Forget Humanity Remember Yourself
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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Believe Deep Nation Virtue
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
Patriotism is the willingness to kill and be killed for trivial reasons.
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Kill Patriotism Willing
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
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
Sin is geographical.
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One Liner Place Sin
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
Fear is the parent of cruelty, and therefore it is no wonder if cruelty and religion have gone hand in hand.
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Deep Fear Hands Religion
The greatest challenge to any thinker is stating the problem in a way that will allow a solution.
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Greatness Problem Science 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
Of all forms of caution, caution in love is perhaps the most fatal to true happiness.
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Death Happiness Love True
To be without some of the things you want is an indispensable part of happiness.
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Happiness Philosophy Satisfaction
Science is what you know, philosophy is what you don’t know.
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Deep Philosophy Science Yourself
Mathematics, rightly viewed, possesses not only truth but supreme beauty – a beauty cold and austere.
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Beautiful Mathematics Truth View
Anything you’re good at contributes to happiness.
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Goodness Happiness Yourself
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
I believe in using words, not fists. I believe in my outrage knowing people are living in boxes on the street. I believe in honesty. I believe in a good time. I believe in good food. I believe in sex.
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Believe Food Goodness Honesty Live Myself People Sex Word
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
Three passions, simple but overwhelmingly strong, have governed my life: the longing for love, the search for knowledge, and unbearable pity for the suffering of mankind.
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Knowledge Life Love Passion Search Simplicity Strong Suffering
The most savage controversies are those about matters as to which there is no good evidence either way.
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Evidence Goodness Savage
Mathematics rightly viewed possesses not only truth but supreme beauty.
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Beautiful Mathematics Truth View
The demand for certainty is one that is natural to man but is nevertheless an intellectual vice.
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Man Philosophy
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
To like many people spontaneously and without effort is perhaps the greatest of all sources of personal happiness.
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Effort Greatness Happiness People Philosophy
We love our habits more than our income, often more than our life.
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Deep Habit Life Love Ourselves

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