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Freedom of opinion can only exist when the government thinks itself secure.

Bertrand Russell

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
Even if all the experts agree, they may well be mistaken.
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Mistake Science
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
Remember your humanity, and forget the rest.
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Forget Humanity Remember Yourself
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
Mathematics rightly viewed possesses not only truth but supreme beauty.
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Beautiful Mathematics Truth View
We love our habits more than our income, often more than our life.
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Deep Habit Life Love Ourselves
Patriotism is the willingness to kill and be killed for trivial reasons.
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Kill Patriotism Willing
One must care about a world one will not see.
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Deep Future Oneself See World
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
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
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
Love is something far more than the desire for sexual intercourse it is the principal means of escape from the loneliness which afflicts most men and women throughout the greater part of their lives.
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Desire Live Lonely Love Man Philosophy Sex Woman
The fundamental concept in social science is power, in the same sense in which energy is the fundamental concept in physics.
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Energy Fundamental Power Science
Few people can be happy unless they hate some other person, nation, or creed.
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Happiness Hate People Person
Science may set limits to knowledge, but should not set limits to imagination.
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Imagination Knowledge Limitation Science

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