One of the symptoms of an approaching nervous breakdown is the belief that one’s work is terribly important. ― Bertrand Russell

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I must govern the clock, not be governed by it. -Golda Meir

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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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Do not fear to be eccentric in opinion, for every opinion now accepted was once eccentric. ― Bertrand Russell

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The hardest thing to learn in life is which bridge to cross and which to burn. ― Bertrand Russell

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

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To teach how to live without certainty, and yet without being paralyzed by hesitation, is perhaps the chief thing that philosophy, in our age, can still do for those who study it. ― Bertrand Russell

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The fundamental cause of the trouble is that in the modern world the stupid are cocksure while the intelligent are full of doubt. ― Bertrand Russell

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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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Love is of all passions the strongest, for it attacks simultaneously the head, the heart and the senses. — Lao Tzu.

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