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A sense of duty is useful in work, but offensive in personal relations. People wish to be liked, not be endured with patient resignation. | Bertrand Russell |
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A stupid man's report of what a clever man says can never be accurate, because he unconciously translates what he hears into something he can understand. | Bertrand Russell |
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All movements go too far. | Bertrand Russell |
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Aristotle maintained that women have fewer teeth than men; although he was twice married, it never occured to him to verify this statement by examining his wives' mouths. | Bertrand Russell |
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Do not fear to be eccentric in opinion, for every opinion now accepted was once eccentric. | Bertrand Russell |
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Drunkenness is temporary suicide; the happiness that it brings is merely negative, a momentary cessation of unhappiness. | Bertrand Russell |
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Every man, wherever he goes, is encompassed by a cloud of comforting convictions, which move with him like flies on a summer day. | Bertrand Russell |
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Everything is vague to a degree you do not realize till you have tried to make it precise. | Bertrand Russell |
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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. | Bertrand Russell |
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I think we ought always to entertain our opinions with some measure of doubt. I shouldn't wish people dogmatically to believe any philosophy, not even mine. | Bertrand Russell |
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I would never die for my beliefs because I might be wrong. | Bertrand Russell |
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If a man is offered a fact which goes against his instincts, he will scrutinize it closely, and unless the evidence is overwhelming, he will refuse to believe it. If, on the other hand, he is offered something which affords a reason for acting in accordan | Bertrand Russell |
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If I were a medical man, I should prescribe a holiday to any patient who considered his work important. | Bertrand Russell |
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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. | Bertrand Russell |
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In all affairs it's a healthy thing now and then to hang a question mark on the things you have long taken for granted. | Bertrand Russell |
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