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

Bertrand Russell

The secret of happiness is to face the fact that the world is horrible, horrible, horrible.
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Deep Happiness Secret World
To be without some of the things you want is an indispensable part of happiness.
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Happiness Philosophy Satisfaction
Patriotism is the willingness to kill and be killed for trivial reasons.
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Kill Patriotism Willing
It’s easy to fall in love. The hard part is finding someone to catch you.
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Easy Fall In Love Relationship
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
If there were in the world today any large number of people who desired their own happiness more than they desired the unhappiness of others, we could have paradise in a few years.
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Desire Happiness People Philosophy World
Every man, wherever he goes, is encompassed by a cloud of comforting convictions, which move with him like flies on a summer day.
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Comfortable Man Philosophy
How much longer is the world willing to endure this spectacle of wanton cruelty?
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Endurance Philosophy Willing World
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
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
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
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
There is no reason to suppose that the world had a beginning at all. The idea that things must have a beginning is really due to the poverty of our thoughts.
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Beginning Ideas Philosophy Reason World
To fear love is to fear life, and those who fear life are already 3 parts dead.
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Death Fear Life Love Philosophy
Neither a man nor a crowd nor a nation can be trusted to act humanely or to think sanely under the influence of great fear.
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Act Fear Greatness Human Man Trust
The secret of happiness is very simple: let your interests be as wide as possible, and let your reactions to the things and persons that interest you be as far as possible friendly rather than hostile.
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Friendship Happiness Philosophy Secret Yourself

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