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Life is nothing but a competition to be the criminal rather than the victim.

Bertrand Russell

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
There is no reason to suppose that the world had a beginning at all. The idea that things must have a beginning is really due to the poverty of our thoughts.
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Beginning Ideas Philosophy Reason World
Most people would sooner die than think; in fact, they do so.
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Death Deep People Philosophy Thinking
The only thing that will redeem mankind is cooperation.
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Healing Mankind Philosophy
Do not fear to be eccentric in opinion, for every opinion now accepted was once eccentric.
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Acceptance Be Yourself Deep Fear
It is the preoccupation with possessions, more than anything else, that prevents us from living freely and nobly.
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Deep Freedom Philosophy
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
One of the painful things about our time is that those who feel certainty are stupid, and those with any imagination and understanding are filled with doubt and indecision.
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Feeling Imagination Ourselves Pain Time Understand
Mathematics rightly viewed possesses not only truth but supreme beauty.
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Beautiful Mathematics Truth View
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
The good life is inspired by love and guided by knowledge.
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Goodness Inspirational Knowledge Life
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
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
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
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
I believe that when I die I shall rot, and nothing of my ego will survive.
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Believe Death Deep Myself

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