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Your writing is never as good as you hoped, but never as bad as you feared.

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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Angry Energy Philosophy Waste
Sometimes the hardest thing in life is to know which bridge to cross and which to burn.
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End Let Go Life
It seems to me fundamental dishonesty, and a fundamental treachery to intellectual integrity to hold a belief because you think it’s useful and not because you think it’s true.
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Believe Fundamental Honesty Integrity Myself Philosophy Thinking Yourself
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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Energy Fundamental Power Science
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
How much longer is the world willing to endure this spectacle of wanton cruelty?
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Endurance Philosophy Willing World
Few people can be happy unless they hate some other person, nation, or creed.
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Happiness Hate People Person
Those who have never known the deep intimacy and the intense companionship of happy mutual love have missed the best thing that life has to give.
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Company Happiness Life Love
Freedom of opinion can only exist when the government thinks itself secure.
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Existence Freedom Opinion Secure
I would never die for my beliefs because I might be wrong.
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Believe Death Myself Wrong
Whoever wishes to become a philosopher must learn not to be frightened by absurdities.
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Fear Mad Philosophy
There is no reason to suppose that the world had a beginning at all. The idea that things must have a beginning is really due to the poverty of our thoughts.
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Beginning Ideas Philosophy Reason World
The demand for certainty is one that is natural to man but is nevertheless an intellectual vice.
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Man Philosophy
Politics is largely governed by sententious platitudes which are devoid of truth.
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Deep Politics Truth
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
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

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