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

Bertrand Russell

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
Few people can be happy unless they hate some other person, nation, or creed.
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Happiness Hate People Person
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
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
Patriots always talk of dying for their country but never of killing for their country.
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Death Kill Patriotism Talk
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
The good life is inspired by love and guided by knowledge.
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Goodness Inspirational Knowledge Life
The hardest thing to learn in life is which bridge to cross and which to burn.
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Burn Hard Learning Let Go Life
A man is rational in proportion as his intelligence informs and controls his desires.
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Desire Intelligence Man
It seems to me fundamental dishonesty, and a fundamental treachery to intellectual integrity to hold a belief because you think it’s useful and not because you think it’s true.
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Believe Fundamental Honesty Integrity Myself Philosophy Thinking Yourself
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
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
Men who are unhappy, like men who sleep badly, are always proud of the fact.
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Happiness Man Philosophy
Three passions, simple but overwhelmingly strong, have governed my life: the longing for love, the search for knowledge, and unbearable pity for the suffering of mankind.
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Knowledge Life Love Passion Search Simplicity Strong Suffering
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
Most people would sooner die than think; in fact, they do so.
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Death Deep People Philosophy Thinking

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