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

Bertrand Russell

Your writing is never as good as you hoped, but never as bad as you feared.
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Fear Goodness Hope Writing Yourself
To be without some of the things you want is an indispensable part of happiness.
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Happiness Philosophy Satisfaction
Politics is largely governed by sententious platitudes which are devoid of truth.
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Deep Politics Truth
Everything is vague to a degree you do not realize till you have tried to make it precise.
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Deep Philosophy Try Yourself
Man is a credulous animal, and must believe something; in the absence of good grounds for belief, he will be satisfied with bad ones.
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Absence Animal Believe Man Philosophy Satisfaction
To like many people spontaneously and without effort is perhaps the greatest of all sources of personal happiness.
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Effort Greatness Happiness People Philosophy
Few people can be happy unless they hate some other person, nation, or creed.
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Happiness Hate People Person
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
Conventional people are roused to fury by departure from convention, largely because they regard such departure as a criticism of themselves.
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Angry Leave People Philosophy
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
The most savage controversies are those about matters as to which there is no good evidence either way.
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Evidence Goodness Savage
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
It has been said that man is a rational animal. All my life I have been searching for evidence that could support this.
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Animal Evidence Life Man Myself Philosophy Search Support
Love is wise, hatred is foolish.
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Hate Love One Liner Wisdom
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
Even if all the experts agree, they may well be mistaken.
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Mistake Science

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