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Sometimes the hardest thing in life is to know which bridge to cross and which to burn.

Bertrand Russell

Most people would sooner die than think; in fact, they do so.
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Death Deep People Philosophy Thinking
I consider the official Catholic attitude on divorce, birth control, and censorship exceedingly dangerous to mankind.
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Danger Man Myself Religion
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
Do not feel envious of the happiness of those who live in a fool’s paradise, for only a fool will think that it is happiness.
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Deep Feeling Happiness Live
To like many people spontaneously and without effort is perhaps the greatest of all sources of personal happiness.
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Effort Greatness Happiness People Philosophy
It has been said that man is a rational animal. All my life I have been searching for evidence that could support this.
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Animal Evidence Life Man Myself Philosophy Search Support
Never try to discourage thinking, for you are sure to succeed.
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Success Thinking Try
Whoever wishes to become a philosopher must learn not to be frightened by absurdities.
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Fear Mad Philosophy
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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Intelligence Prepare Present
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
Men who are unhappy, like men who sleep badly, are always proud of the fact.
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Happiness Man Philosophy
One of the symptoms of an approaching nervous breakdown is the belief that one’s work is terribly important.
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Believe Important Oneself
Even if all the experts agree, they may well be mistaken.
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Mistake Science
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
Nothing is so exhausting as indecision, and nothing is so futile.
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Decision Deep Philosophy
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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Greatness Happiness Live Quiet True

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