To fear love is to fear life, and those who fear life are already 3-parts dead. ― 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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The most lively young people become the best old people, not those who pretend to be as wise as grandfathers while they are still in school.

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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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I do not pretend to be able to prove that there is no God. I equally cannot prove that Satan is a fiction. The Christian god may exist; so may the gods of Olympus, or of ancient Egypt, or of Babylon. But no one of these hypotheses is more probable than any other: they lie outside the region of even probable knowledge, and therefore there is no reason to consider any of them. ― 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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I would never die for my beliefs because I might be wrong. ― Bertrand Russell

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Pretend that every single person you meet has a sign around his or her neck that says, 'Make me feel important.' Not only will you succeed in sales, you will succeed in life. - Mary Kay Ash

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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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What man can pretend to know the riddle of a woman's mind?

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