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Do not fear to be eccentric in opinion, for every opinion now accepted was once eccentric.

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
One of the most powerful of all our passions is the desire to be admired and respected.
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Desire Ourselves Passion Power Respect
Patriots always talk of dying for their country but never of killing for their country.
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Death Kill Patriotism Talk
Politics is largely governed by sententious platitudes which are devoid of truth.
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Deep Politics Truth
Neither a man nor a crowd nor a nation can be trusted to act humanely or to think sanely under the influence of great fear.
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Act Fear Greatness Human Man Trust
Nothing is so exhausting as indecision, and nothing is so futile.
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Decision Deep Philosophy
Science may set limits to knowledge, but should not set limits to imagination.
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Imagination Knowledge Limitation Science
No one ever gossips about the virtues of others.
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Oneself Virtue
Mathematics, rightly viewed, possesses not only truth but supreme beauty – a beauty cold and austere.
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Beautiful Mathematics Truth View
Love is wise, hatred is foolish.
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Hate Love One Liner Wisdom
Love is something far more than the desire for sexual intercourse it is the principal means of escape from the loneliness which afflicts most men and women throughout the greater part of their lives.
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Desire Live Lonely Love Man Philosophy Sex Woman
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
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
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
Patriotism is the willingness to kill and be killed for trivial reasons.
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Kill Patriotism Willing
Anything you’re good at contributes to happiness.
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Goodness Happiness Yourself

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