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

Bertrand Russell

The secret of happiness is to face the fact that the world is horrible, horrible, horrible.
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Deep Happiness Secret World
Men who are unhappy, like men who sleep badly, are always proud of the fact.
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Happiness Man Philosophy
Life is nothing but a competition to be the criminal rather than the victim.
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Crime Deep Life Philosophy Reality
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
To fear love is to fear life, and those who fear life are already 3 parts dead.
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Death Fear Life Love Philosophy
One of the most powerful of all our passions is the desire to be admired and respected.
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Desire Ourselves Passion Power Respect
No one ever gossips about the virtues of others.
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Oneself Virtue
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
In all affairs, it’s a healthy thing now and then to hang a question mark on the things you have long taken for granted.
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Healthy Philosophy
It’s easy to fall in love. The hard part is finding someone to catch you.
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Easy Fall In Love Relationship
Men are born ignorant, not stupid; they are made stupid by education.
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Born Education Man Stupidity
Boredom is therefore a vital problem for the moralist, since at least half the sins of mankind are caused by the fear of it.
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Deep Fear Mankind Problem Sin
Even if all the experts agree, they may well be mistaken.
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Mistake Science
The hardest thing to learn in life is which bridge to cross and which to burn.
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Burn Hard Learning Let Go Life
The use of self-control is like the use of brakes on the train. It is useful when you find yourself in the wrong direction but merely harmful when the direction is right.
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Control Direction Harm Wrong Yourself
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
So far as I can remember there is not one word in the gospels in praise of intelligence.
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Intelligence Myself Religious Remember
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
The secret of happiness is very simple: let your interests be as wide as possible, and let your reactions to the things and persons that interest you be as far as possible friendly rather than hostile.
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Friendship Happiness Philosophy Secret Yourself
Conquer the world by intelligence, and not merely by being slavishly subdued by the terror that comes from it.
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Deep Intelligence World
Dogmatism is the greatest of mental obstacles to human happiness.
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Greatness Happiness Human Mental Obstacle
We know very little, and yet it is astonishing that we know so much, and still more astonishing that so little knowledge can give us so much power.
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Deep Knowledge Philosophy
Love is wise, hatred is foolish.
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Hate Love One Liner Wisdom
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
Sin is geographical.
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One Liner Place Sin
Most people would sooner die than think; in fact, they do so.
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Death Deep People Philosophy Thinking
Machines have altered our way of life, but not our instincts. Consequently, there is maladjustment.
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Deep Life Ourselves Way

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