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The fundamental concept in social science is power, in the same sense in which energy is the fundamental concept in physics.

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
Even if all the experts agree, they may well be mistaken.
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Mistake Science
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
What is wanted is not the will to believe, but the will to find out, which is the exact opposite.
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Believe Deep Willing
I believe in using words, not fists. I believe in my outrage knowing people are living in boxes on the street. I believe in honesty. I believe in a good time. I believe in good food. I believe in sex.
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Believe Food Goodness Honesty Live Myself People Sex Word
Of all forms of caution, caution in love is perhaps the most fatal to true happiness.
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Death Happiness Love True
I consider the official Catholic attitude on divorce, birth control, and censorship exceedingly dangerous to mankind.
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Danger Man Myself Religion
Science may set limits to knowledge, but should not set limits to imagination.
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Imagination Knowledge Limitation Science
Remember your humanity, and forget the rest.
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Forget Humanity Remember Yourself
Dogmatism is the greatest of mental obstacles to human happiness.
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Greatness Happiness Human Mental Obstacle
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
It is a waste of energy to be angry with a man who behaves badly, just as it is to be angry with a car that won’t go.
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Angry Energy Philosophy Waste
No one gossips about other people’s secret virtues.
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People Secret Virtue
Men are born ignorant, not stupid; they are made stupid by education.
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Born Education Man Stupidity
None of our beliefs are quite true; all have at least a penumbra of vagueness and error.
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Believe Ourselves Philosophy Quite True
I believe that when I die I shall rot, and nothing of my ego will survive.
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Believe Death Deep Myself

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