The greatest challenge to any thinker is stating the problem in a way that will allow a solution.
BERTRAND RUSSELLHow much longer is the world willing to endure this spectacle of wanton cruelty?
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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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What is wanted is not the will to believe, but the will to find out, which is the exact opposite.
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Of all forms of caution, caution in love is perhaps the most fatal to true happiness.
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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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To be able to fill leisure intelligently is the last product of civilization, and at present, very few people have reached this level.
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Men are born ignorant, not stupid; they are made stupid by education.
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Nothing is so exhausting as indecision, and nothing is so futile.
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Men who are unhappy, like men who sleep badly, are always proud of the fact.
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Anything you’re good at contributes to happiness.
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Do not fear to be eccentric in opinion, for every opinion now accepted was once eccentric.
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The demand for certainty is one that is natural to man but is nevertheless an intellectual vice.
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To be without some of the things you want is an indispensable part of happiness.
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How much longer is the world willing to endure this spectacle of wanton cruelty?
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The wise man thinks about his troubles only when there is some purpose in doing so; at other times he thinks about other things, or, if it is night, about nothing at all.
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A happy life must be to a great extent a quiet life, for it is only in an atmosphere of quiet that true joy can live.
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