The present is the only reality and the only certainty.

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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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Our great democracies still tend to think that a stupid man is more likely to be honest than a clever man, and our politicians take advantage of this prejudice by pretending to be even more stupid than nature made them.― 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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A stupid man's report of what a clever man says can never be accurate, because he unconsciously translates what he hears into something he can understand. ― Bertrand Russell

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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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Do not fear to be eccentric in opinion, for every opinion now accepted was once eccentric. ― 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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Most people would sooner die than think; in fact, they do so. ― Bertrand Russell

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To fear love is to fear life, and those who fear life are already 3-parts dead. ― Bertrand Russell

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