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

Bertrand Russell

Freedom of opinion can only exist when the government thinks itself secure.
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Existence Freedom Opinion Secure
In all affairs, it’s a healthy thing now and then to hang a question mark on the things you have long taken for granted.
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Healthy Philosophy
Love can flourish only as long as it is free and spontaneous; it tends to be killed by the thought of duty. To say that it is your duty to love so-and-so is the surest way to cause you to hate him of her.
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Freedom Hate Kill Love Philosophy Relationship
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
Few people can be happy unless they hate some other person, nation, or creed.
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Happiness Hate People Person
There are two motives for reading a book; one, that you enjoy it; the other, that you can boast about it.
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Book Enjoyment Reading
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
Is there any knowledge in the world that is so certain that no reasonable man could doubt it?
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Doubt Knowledge Philosophy World
Science may set limits to knowledge, but should not set limits to imagination.
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Imagination Knowledge Limitation Science
We love our habits more than our income, often more than our life.
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Deep Habit Life Love Ourselves
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
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
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
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
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

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