One of the most powerful of all our passions is the desire to be admired and respected.
BERTRAND RUSSELLTo fear love is to fear life, and those who fear life are already 3 parts dead.
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Freedom of opinion can only exist when the government thinks itself secure.
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The only thing that will redeem mankind is cooperation.
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Never try to discourage thinking, for you are sure to succeed.
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The most savage controversies are those about matters as to which there is no good evidence either way.
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No nation was ever so virtuous as each believes itself, and none was ever so wicked as each believes the other.
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Few people can be happy unless they hate some other person, nation, or creed.
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The hardest thing to learn in life is which bridge to cross and which to burn.
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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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Of all forms of caution, caution in love is perhaps the most fatal to true happiness.
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To write a tragedy, a man must feel the tragedy. To feel tragedy, a man must be aware of the world in which he lives. Not only with his mind, but with his blood and sinews.
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To like many people spontaneously and without effort is perhaps the greatest of all sources of personal happiness.
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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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Aristotle maintained that women have fewer teeth than men; although he was twice married, it never occurred to him to verify this statement by examining his wives’ mouths.
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Men who are unhappy, like men who sleep badly, are always proud of the fact.
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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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