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I hate being all tidy like a book in a library where nobody reads – prison is horribly like that.

Bertrand Russell

Nothing is so exhausting as indecision, and nothing is so futile.
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Decision Deep Philosophy
One must care about a world one will not see.
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Deep Future Oneself See World
Men are born ignorant, not stupid; they are made stupid by education.
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Born Education Man Stupidity
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 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 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
Patriotism is the willingness to kill and be killed for trivial reasons.
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Kill Patriotism Willing
The good life is inspired by love and guided by knowledge.
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Goodness Inspirational Knowledge Life
Sometimes the hardest thing in life is to know which bridge to cross and which to burn.
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End Let Go Life
I believe that when I die I shall rot, and nothing of my ego will survive.
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Believe Death Deep Myself
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
The fundamental cause of the trouble is that in the modern world the stupid are cocksure while the intelligent are full of doubt.
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Doubt Fundamental Intelligence World
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
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
Politics is largely governed by sententious platitudes which are devoid of truth.
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Deep Politics Truth
The secret of happiness is to face the fact that the world is horrible, horrible, horrible.
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Deep Happiness Secret World

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