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. ― Bertrand Russell

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The truth is something that burns. It burns off dead wood. And people don't like having the dead wood burnt off, often because they're 95 percent dead wood. - Jordan Peterson

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Men fear thought as they fear nothing else on earth -- more than ruin, more even than death. Thought is subversive and revolutionary, destructive and terrible, thought is merciless to privilege, established institutions, and comfortable habits; thought is anarchic and lawless, indifferent to authority, careless of the well-tried wisdom of the ages. Thought looks into the pit of hell and is not afraid ... Thought is great and swift and free, the light of the world, and the chief glory of man. ― Bertrand Russell

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Look at it this way: You’ve already survived 100% of your worst days! You’ll get through this one too.

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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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Are We Like Those Bored Couples You Feel Sorry For In Restaurants? Are We The Dining Dead? I Can’t Stand The Idea Of Us Being A Couple People Think That About. - Joel To Clementine

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Don't worry about the world coming to an end today. It is already tomorrow in Australia. - Charles M. Schulz

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Most people would sooner die than think; in fact, they do so. ― Bertrand Russell

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Advice is what we ask for when we already know the answer but wish we didn’t. — Erica Jong, novelist

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Try to be happy in this present moment, and put not off being so to a time to come--as though that time should be of another make from this which has already come and is ours. ― Thomas Fuller

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