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I consider the official Catholic attitude on divorce, birth control, and censorship exceedingly dangerous to mankind.

Bertrand Russell

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
Never try to discourage thinking, for you are sure to succeed.
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Success Thinking Try
Anything you’re good at contributes to happiness.
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Goodness Happiness 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
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
To write a tragedy, a man must feel the tragedy. To feel tragedy, a man must be aware of the world in which he lives. Not only with his mind, but with his blood and sinews.
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Deep Feeling Man Tragedy Writing
Life is nothing but a competition to be the criminal rather than the victim.
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Crime Deep Life Philosophy Reality
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
Philosophy, from the earliest times, has made greater claims, and achieved fewer results, than any other branch of learning.
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Greatness Learning Philosophy Time
The greatest challenge to any thinker is stating the problem in a way that will allow a solution.
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Greatness Problem Science Thinking
No one ever gossips about the virtues of others.
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Oneself Virtue
How much longer is the world willing to endure this spectacle of wanton cruelty?
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Endurance Philosophy Willing World
Extreme hopes are born from extreme misery.
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Born Hope Misery
Science may set limits to knowledge, but should not set limits to imagination.
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Imagination Knowledge Limitation Science
Is there any knowledge in the world that is so certain that no reasonable man could doubt it?
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Doubt Knowledge Philosophy World
One of the painful things about our time is that those who feel certainty are stupid, and those with any imagination and understanding are filled with doubt and indecision.
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Feeling Imagination Ourselves Pain Time Understand

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