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

Bertrand Russell

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
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
The search for something permanent is one of the deepest of the instincts leading men to philosophy.
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Man Philosophy Search
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
Conventional people are roused to fury by departure from convention, largely because they regard such departure as a criticism of themselves.
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Angry Leave People Philosophy
Machines have altered our way of life, but not our instincts. Consequently, there is maladjustment.
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Deep Life Ourselves Way
Freedom of opinion can only exist when the government thinks itself secure.
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Existence Freedom Opinion Secure
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
Love is wise, hatred is foolish.
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Hate Love One Liner Wisdom
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
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
A man is rational in proportion as his intelligence informs and controls his desires.
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Desire Intelligence Man
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
Patriots always talk of dying for their country but never of killing for their country.
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Death Kill Patriotism Talk
I say quite deliberately that the Christian religion, as organized in its churches, has been and still is the principal enemy of moral progress in the world.
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Enemy Quite Religion World
The greatest challenge to any thinker is stating the problem in a way that will allow a solution.
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Greatness Problem Science Thinking

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