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Men who are unhappy, like men who sleep badly, are always proud of the fact.

Bertrand Russell

A man is rational in proportion as his intelligence informs and controls his desires.
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Desire Intelligence Man
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
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
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
No one ever gossips about the virtues of others.
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Oneself Virtue
The secret of happiness is very simple: let your interests be as wide as possible, and let your reactions to the things and persons that interest you be as far as possible friendly rather than hostile.
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Friendship Happiness Philosophy Secret Yourself
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
Few people can be happy unless they hate some other person, nation, or creed.
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Happiness Hate People Person
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
It is a waste of energy to be angry with a man who behaves badly, just as it is to be angry with a car that won’t go.
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Angry Energy Philosophy Waste
Science may set limits to knowledge, but should not set limits to imagination.
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Imagination Knowledge Limitation Science
The good life is inspired by love and guided by knowledge.
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Goodness Inspirational Knowledge Life
Patriots always talk of dying for their country but never of killing for their country.
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Death Kill Patriotism Talk
One must care about a world one will not see.
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Deep Future Oneself See World
Patriotism is the willingness to kill and be killed for trivial reasons.
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Kill Patriotism Willing
No one gossips about other people’s secret virtues.
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People Secret Virtue

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