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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.

Bertrand Russell

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
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
Never try to discourage thinking, for you are sure to succeed.
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Success Thinking Try
Your writing is never as good as you hoped, but never as bad as you feared.
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Fear Goodness Hope Writing Yourself
One of the symptoms of an approaching nervous breakdown is the belief that one’s work is terribly important.
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Believe Important Oneself
We love our habits more than our income, often more than our life.
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Deep Habit Life Love Ourselves
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
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
Anything you’re good at contributes to happiness.
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Goodness Happiness Yourself
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
If there were in the world today any large number of people who desired their own happiness more than they desired the unhappiness of others, we could have paradise in a few years.
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Desire Happiness People Philosophy World
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
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
The only thing that will redeem mankind is cooperation.
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Healing Mankind Philosophy
The search for something permanent is one of the deepest of the instincts leading men to philosophy.
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Man Philosophy Search
Love is wise, hatred is foolish.
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Hate Love One Liner Wisdom

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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