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To like many people spontaneously and without effort is perhaps the greatest of all sources of personal happiness.

Bertrand Russell

The wise man thinks about his troubles only when there is some purpose in doing so; at other times he thinks about other things, or, if it is night, about nothing at all.
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Man Night Purpose Thinking Wisdom
It seems to me fundamental dishonesty, and a fundamental treachery to intellectual integrity to hold a belief because you think it’s useful and not because you think it’s true.
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Believe Fundamental Honesty Integrity Myself Philosophy Thinking Yourself
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
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
Sometimes the hardest thing in life is to know which bridge to cross and which to burn.
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End Let Go Life
And if there were a God, I think it very unlikely that he would have such an uneasy vanity as to be offended by those who doubt his existence.
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Doubt Existence God Myself Religion Thinking
Love is wise, hatred is foolish.
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Hate Love One Liner Wisdom
Patriots always talk of dying for their country but never of killing for their country.
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Death Kill Patriotism Talk
Boredom is therefore a vital problem for the moralist, since at least half the sins of mankind are caused by the fear of it.
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Deep Fear Mankind Problem Sin
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
Patriotism is the willingness to kill and be killed for trivial reasons.
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Kill Patriotism Willing
Fear is the parent of cruelty, and therefore it is no wonder if cruelty and religion have gone hand in hand.
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Deep Fear Hands Religion
Life is nothing but a competition to be the criminal rather than the victim.
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Crime Deep Life Philosophy Reality
To be able to fill leisure intelligently is the last product of civilization, and at present, very few people have reached this level.
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Intelligence Prepare Present
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
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

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