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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. "
Bertrand Russell
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" The secret to happiness is to face the fact that the world is horrible. "
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" Freedom in general may be defined as the absence of obstacles to the realization of desires. "
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" Many a man will have the courage to die gallantly, but will not have the courage to say, or even to think, that the cause for which he is asked to die is an unworthy one. "
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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. "
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" The infliction of cruelty with a good conscience is a delight to moralists. That is why they invented Hell. "
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" 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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" The time you enjoy wasting is not wasted time. "
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" No; we have been as usual asking the wrong question. It does not matter a hoot what the mockingbird on the chimney is singing. The real and proper question is: Why is it beautiful? "
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" Men who are unhappy, like men who sleep badly, are always proud of the fact. "
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" Most people would sooner die than think; in fact, they do so. "
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" Italy, and the spring and first love all together should suffice to make the gloomiest person happy. "
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" Admiration of the proletariat, like that of dams, power stations, and aeroplanes, is part of the ideology of the machine age. "
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" It is possible that mankind is on the threshold of a golden age; but, if so, it will be necessary first to slay the dragon that guards the door, and this dragon is religion. "
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" I've made an odd discovery. Every time I talk to a savant I feel quite sure that happiness is no longer a possibility. Yet when I talk with my gardener, I'm convinced of the opposite. "
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" None but a coward dares to boast that he has never known fear. "
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" Next to enjoying ourselves, the next greatest pleasure consists in preventing others from enjoying themselves, or, more generally, in the acquisition of power. "
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" I would never die for my beliefs because I might be wrong. "
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" The pleasure of work is open to anyone who can develop some specialised skill, provided that he can get satisfaction from the exercise of his skill without demanding universal applause. "
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" A life without adventure is likely to be unsatisfying, but a life in which adventure is allowed to take whatever form it will is sure to be short. "
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" When the intensity of emotional conviction subsides, a man who is in the habit of reasoning will search for logical grounds in favour of the belief which he finds in himself. "
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" Man needs, for his happiness, not only the enjoyment of this or that, but hope and enterprise and change. "
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" Right discipline consists, not in external compulsion, but in the habits of mind which lead spontaneously to desirable rather than undesirable activities. "
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