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The hardest thing to learn in life is which bridge to cross and which to burn.

Bertrand Russell

I believe in using words, not fists. I believe in my outrage knowing people are living in boxes on the street. I believe in honesty. I believe in a good time. I believe in good food. I believe in sex.
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Believe Food Goodness Honesty Live Myself People Sex Word
Anything you’re good at contributes to happiness.
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Goodness Happiness Yourself
Few people can be happy unless they hate some other person, nation, or creed.
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Happiness Hate People Person
The demand for certainty is one that is natural to man but is nevertheless an intellectual vice.
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Man Philosophy
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
We know very little, and yet it is astonishing that we know so much, and still more astonishing that so little knowledge can give us so much power.
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Deep Knowledge Philosophy
Not to be absolutely certain is, I think, one of the essential things in rationality.
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Myself Philosophy Thinking
Life is nothing but a competition to be the criminal rather than the victim.
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Crime Deep Life Philosophy Reality
None of our beliefs are quite true; all have at least a penumbra of vagueness and error.
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Believe Ourselves Philosophy Quite True
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
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
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 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
Politics is largely governed by sententious platitudes which are devoid of truth.
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Deep Politics Truth
Science may set limits to knowledge, but should not set limits to imagination.
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Imagination Knowledge Limitation Science
Nothing is so exhausting as indecision, and nothing is so futile.
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Decision Deep Philosophy

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