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Politics is largely governed by sententious platitudes which are devoid of truth.

Bertrand Russell

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
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
Nothing is so exhausting as indecision, and nothing is so futile.
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Decision Deep Philosophy
Men are born ignorant, not stupid; they are made stupid by education.
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Born Education Man Stupidity
Aristotle maintained that women have fewer teeth than men; although he was twice married, it never occurred to him to verify this statement by examining his wives’ mouths.
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Himself Man Marriage Woman
Your writing is never as good as you hoped, but never as bad as you feared.
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Fear Goodness Hope Writing Yourself
The whole problem with the world is that fools and fanatics are always so certain of themselves, and wiser people so full of doubts.
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Doubt Problem Wisdom World
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
How much longer is the world willing to endure this spectacle of wanton cruelty?
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Endurance Philosophy Willing World
A man is rational in proportion as his intelligence informs and controls his desires.
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Desire Intelligence Man
Philosophy, from the earliest times, has made greater claims, and achieved fewer results, than any other branch of learning.
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Greatness Learning Philosophy Time
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
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 hardest thing to learn in life is which bridge to cross and which to burn.
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Burn Hard Learning Let Go Life
In all affairs, it’s a healthy thing now and then to hang a question mark on the things you have long taken for granted.
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Healthy Philosophy
Science is what you know, philosophy is what you don’t know.
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Deep Philosophy Science Yourself

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