Life is nothing but a competition to be the criminal rather than the victim.
BERTRAND RUSSELLDo not fear to be eccentric in opinion, for every opinion now accepted was once eccentric.
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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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I hate being all tidy like a book in a library where nobody reads – prison is horribly like that.
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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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There are two motives for reading a book; one, that you enjoy it; the other, that you can boast about it.
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None of our beliefs are quite true; all have at least a penumbra of vagueness and error.
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I consider the official Catholic attitude on divorce, birth control, and censorship exceedingly dangerous to mankind.
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Do not fear to be eccentric in opinion, for every opinion now accepted was once eccentric.
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It’s easy to fall in love. The hard part is finding someone to catch you.
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Patriots always talk of dying for their country but never of killing for their country.
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Mathematics rightly viewed possesses not only truth but supreme beauty.
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Of all forms of caution, caution in love is perhaps the most fatal to true happiness.
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To like many people spontaneously and without effort is perhaps the greatest of all sources of personal happiness.
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I do not myself feel that any person who is really profoundly humane can believe in everlasting punishment.
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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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To fear love is to fear life, and those who fear life are already 3 parts dead.
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