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

Bertrand Russell

Those who have never known the deep intimacy and the intense companionship of happy mutual love have missed the best thing that life has to give.
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Company Happiness Life Love
No one gossips about other people’s secret virtues.
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People Secret Virtue
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
Freedom of opinion can only exist when the government thinks itself secure.
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Existence Freedom Opinion Secure
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
Extreme hopes are born from extreme misery.
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Born Hope Misery
Man is a credulous animal, and must believe something; in the absence of good grounds for belief, he will be satisfied with bad ones.
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Absence Animal Believe Man Philosophy Satisfaction
Not to be absolutely certain is, I think, one of the essential things in rationality.
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Myself Philosophy Thinking
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
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
I hate being all tidy like a book in a library where nobody reads – prison is horribly like that.
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Book Hate Reading
One must care about a world one will not see.
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Deep Future Oneself See World
It is the preoccupation with possessions, more than anything else, that prevents us from living freely and nobly.
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Deep Freedom Philosophy
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
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

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