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I believe that when I die I shall rot, and nothing of my ego will survive.

Bertrand Russell

A sense of duty is useful in work but offensive in personal relations. People wish to be liked, not to be endured with patient resignation.
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Endurance Patience People Relationship
Three passions, simple but overwhelmingly strong, have governed my life: the longing for love, the search for knowledge, and unbearable pity for the suffering of mankind.
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Knowledge Life Love Passion Search Simplicity Strong Suffering
Life is nothing but a competition to be the criminal rather than the victim.
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Crime Deep Life Philosophy Reality
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
Sin is geographical.
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One Liner Place Sin
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
No one ever gossips about the virtues of others.
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Oneself Virtue
Men are born ignorant, not stupid; they are made stupid by education.
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Born Education Man Stupidity
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
To be without some of the things you want is an indispensable part of happiness.
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Happiness Philosophy Satisfaction
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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Feeling Imagination Ourselves Pain Time Understand
I say quite deliberately that the Christian religion, as organized in its churches, has been and still is the principal enemy of moral progress in the world.
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Enemy Quite Religion World
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
The fundamental cause of the trouble is that in the modern world the stupid are cocksure while the intelligent are full of doubt.
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Doubt Fundamental Intelligence World
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

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