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Everything is vague to a degree you do not realize till you have tried to make it precise.

Bertrand Russell

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
So far as I can remember there is not one word in the gospels in praise of intelligence.
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Intelligence Myself Religious Remember
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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Happiness Life Live Myself Satisfaction Worth
The secret of happiness is to face the fact that the world is horrible, horrible, horrible.
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Deep Happiness Secret World
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
Those who have never known the deep intimacy and the intense companionship of happy mutual love have missed the best thing that life has to give.
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Company Happiness Life Love
Never try to discourage thinking, for you are sure to succeed.
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Success Thinking Try
No one ever gossips about the virtues of others.
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Oneself Virtue
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
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
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
Dogmatism is the greatest of mental obstacles to human happiness.
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Greatness Happiness Human Mental Obstacle
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
Science may set limits to knowledge, but should not set limits to imagination.
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Imagination Knowledge Limitation Science
Anything you’re good at contributes to happiness.
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Goodness Happiness Yourself

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