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It is the preoccupation with possessions, more than anything else, that prevents us from living freely and nobly.

Bertrand Russell

The fundamental concept in social science is power, in the same sense in which energy is the fundamental concept in physics.
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Energy Fundamental Power Science
Sin is geographical.
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One Liner Place Sin
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
Nothing is so exhausting as indecision, and nothing is so futile.
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Decision Deep Philosophy
Love is wise, hatred is foolish.
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Hate Love One Liner Wisdom
Is there any knowledge in the world that is so certain that no reasonable man could doubt it?
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Doubt Knowledge Philosophy World
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 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
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
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
The only thing that will redeem mankind is cooperation.
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Healing Mankind Philosophy
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
No nation was ever so virtuous as each believes itself, and none was ever so wicked as each believes the other.
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Believe Deep Nation Virtue
The use of self-control is like the use of brakes on the train. It is useful when you find yourself in the wrong direction but merely harmful when the direction is right.
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Control Direction Harm Wrong Yourself
What is wanted is not the will to believe, but the will to find out, which is the exact opposite.
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Believe Deep Willing
One must care about a world one will not see.
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Deep Future Oneself See World

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