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Even if all the experts agree, they may well be mistaken.

Bertrand Russell

Patriots always talk of dying for their country but never of killing for their country.
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Death Kill Patriotism Talk
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
Every man, wherever he goes, is encompassed by a cloud of comforting convictions, which move with him like flies on a summer day.
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Comfortable Man Philosophy
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
Men who are unhappy, like men who sleep badly, are always proud of the fact.
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Happiness Man Philosophy
I believe that when I die I shall rot, and nothing of my ego will survive.
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Believe Death Deep Myself
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
Conventional people are roused to fury by departure from convention, largely because they regard such departure as a criticism of themselves.
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Angry Leave People Philosophy
Never try to discourage thinking, for you are sure to succeed.
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Success Thinking Try
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
Language serves not only to express thought but to make possible thoughts that could not exist without it.
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Deep Existence Language Possible
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
I think we ought always to entertain our opinions with some measure of doubt. I shouldn’t wish people dogmatically to believe any philosophy, not even mine.
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Believe Doubt Myself People Philosophy Thinking
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
Fear is the parent of cruelty, and therefore it is no wonder if cruelty and religion have gone hand in hand.
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Deep Fear Hands Religion
Nothing is so exhausting as indecision, and nothing is so futile.
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Decision Deep Philosophy

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