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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.

Bertrand Russell

Patriots always talk of dying for their country but never of killing for their country.
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Death Kill Patriotism Talk
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
A man is rational in proportion as his intelligence informs and controls his desires.
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Desire Intelligence Man
Most people would sooner die than think; in fact, they do so.
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Death Deep People Philosophy Thinking
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
Even if all the experts agree, they may well be mistaken.
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Mistake Science
We love our habits more than our income, often more than our life.
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Deep Habit Life Love Ourselves
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
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
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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Angry Energy Philosophy Waste
Philosophy, from the earliest times, has made greater claims, and achieved fewer results, than any other branch of learning.
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Greatness Learning Philosophy Time
I believe that when I die I shall rot, and nothing of my ego will survive.
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Believe Death Deep Myself
How much longer is the world willing to endure this spectacle of wanton cruelty?
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Endurance Philosophy Willing World
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
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
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

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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