Patriots always talk of dying for their country but never of killing for their country.
BERTRAND RUSSELLWhat is wanted is not the will to believe, but the will to find out, which is the exact opposite.
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Patriotism is the willingness to kill and be killed for trivial reasons.
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No one gossips about other people’s secret virtues.
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Sometimes the hardest thing in life is to know which bridge to cross and which to burn.
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What is wanted is not the will to believe, but the will to find out, which is the exact opposite.
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Men who are unhappy, like men who sleep badly, are always proud of the fact.
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The hardest thing to learn in life is which bridge to cross and which to burn.
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Science may set limits to knowledge, but should not set limits to imagination.
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Language serves not only to express thought but to make possible thoughts that could not exist without it.
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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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Science is what you know, philosophy is what you don’t know.
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Is there any knowledge in the world that is so certain that no reasonable man could doubt it?
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Life is nothing but a competition to be the criminal rather than the victim.
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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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This has been my life. I have found it worth living, and would gladly live it again if the chance were offered to me.
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To fear love is to fear life, and those who fear life are already 3 parts dead.
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