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Not to be absolutely certain is, I think, one of the essential things in rationality.

Bertrand Russell

Science may set limits to knowledge, but should not set limits to imagination.
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Imagination Knowledge Limitation Science
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 would never die for my beliefs because I might be wrong.
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Believe Death Myself Wrong
Anything you’re good at contributes to happiness.
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Goodness Happiness Yourself
Mathematics, rightly viewed, possesses not only truth but supreme beauty – a beauty cold and austere.
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Beautiful Mathematics Truth View
Life is nothing but a competition to be the criminal rather than the victim.
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Crime Deep Life Philosophy Reality
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
How much longer is the world willing to endure this spectacle of wanton cruelty?
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Endurance Philosophy Willing World
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
The search for something permanent is one of the deepest of the instincts leading men to philosophy.
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Man Philosophy Search
Never try to discourage thinking, for you are sure to succeed.
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Success Thinking Try
Love is something far more than the desire for sexual intercourse it is the principal means of escape from the loneliness which afflicts most men and women throughout the greater part of their lives.
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Desire Live Lonely Love Man Philosophy Sex Woman
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
No one ever gossips about the virtues of others.
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Oneself Virtue
One of the most powerful of all our passions is the desire to be admired and respected.
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Desire Ourselves Passion Power Respect
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

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