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How much longer is the world willing to endure this spectacle of wanton cruelty?

Bertrand Russell

I would never die for my beliefs because I might be wrong.
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Believe Death Myself Wrong
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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Himself Man Marriage Woman
And if there were a God, I think it very unlikely that he would have such an uneasy vanity as to be offended by those who doubt his existence.
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Doubt Existence God Myself Religion Thinking
Patriotism is the willingness to kill and be killed for trivial reasons.
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Kill Patriotism Willing
Extreme hopes are born from extreme misery.
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Born Hope Misery
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
A man is rational in proportion as his intelligence informs and controls his desires.
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Desire Intelligence Man
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
Nothing is so exhausting as indecision, and nothing is so futile.
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Decision Deep Philosophy
The demand for certainty is one that is natural to man but is nevertheless an intellectual vice.
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Man Philosophy
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
Few people can be happy unless they hate some other person, nation, or creed.
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Happiness Hate People Person
This has been my life. I have found it worth living, and would gladly live it again if the chance were offered to me.
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Happiness Life Live Myself Satisfaction Worth
Even if all the experts agree, they may well be mistaken.
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Mistake Science
To be without some of the things you want is an indispensable part of happiness.
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Happiness Philosophy Satisfaction
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

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