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- Bertrand Russell: English philosopher and mathematician
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Fear is the main source of superstition, and one of the main sources of cruelty. To conquer fear is the beginning of wisdom.
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Life is nothing but a competition to be the criminal rather than the victim.
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There is no good arguing with the inevitable. The only argument available with an east wind is to put on your overcoat.
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A hallucination is a fact, not an error; what is erroneous is a judgment based upon it.
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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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A truer image of the world, I think, is obtained by picturing things as entering into the stream of time from an eternal world outside, than from a view which regards time as the devouring tyrant of all that is.
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Advocates of capitalism are very apt to appeal to the sacred principles of liberty, which are embodied in one maxim: The fortunate must not be restrained in the exercise of tyranny over the unfortunate.
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Both in thought and in feeling, even though time be real, to realise the unimportance of time is the gate of wisdom.
Contemplation and Action, 1902-14 -
Democracy is like a raft: It won't sink, but you will always have your feet wet.
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Drunkenness is temporary suicide.
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Every person born into this world their work is born with them.
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I have always been of the mind that in a democracy manners are the only effective weapons against the bowie-knife.
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It seems to be a law in American life that whatever enriches us anywhere except in the wallet inevitably becomes uneconomic.
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Life is always walking up to us and saying, ''Come on in, the living's find,'' and what do we do? Back off and take its picture.
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Love should be a tree whose roots are deep in the earth, but whose branches extend into heaven.
Marriage and Morals (1929) ch. 19 -
People who say you're just as old as you feel are all wrong, fortunately.
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There will still be things that machines cannot do. They will not produce great art or great literature or great philosophy; they will not be able to discover the secret springs of happiness in the human heart; they will know nothing of love and friendship.
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A great man is made up of qualities that meet or make great occasions.
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A happy life must be to a great extent a quiet life, for it is only in an atmosphere of quiet that true joy dare live.
The Conquest of Happiness
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