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

Bertrand Russell

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
One must care about a world one will not see.
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Deep Future Oneself See World
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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Deep Feeling Man Tragedy Writing
The demand for certainty is one that is natural to man but is nevertheless an intellectual vice.
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Man Philosophy
Few people can be happy unless they hate some other person, nation, or creed.
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Happiness Hate People Person
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
I would never die for my beliefs because I might be wrong.
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Believe Death Myself Wrong
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
Love is something far more than the desire for sexual intercourse it is the principal means of escape from the loneliness which afflicts most men and women throughout the greater part of their lives.
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Desire Live Lonely Love Man Philosophy Sex Woman
The greatest challenge to any thinker is stating the problem in a way that will allow a solution.
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Greatness Problem Science Thinking
The good life is inspired by love and guided by knowledge.
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Goodness Inspirational Knowledge Life
Patriotism is the willingness to kill and be killed for trivial reasons.
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Kill Patriotism Willing
We love our habits more than our income, often more than our life.
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Deep Habit Life Love Ourselves
The only thing that will redeem mankind is cooperation.
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Healing Mankind Philosophy
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
Not to be absolutely certain is, I think, one of the essential things in rationality.
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Myself Philosophy Thinking

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