"The time you enjoy wasting is not wasted time."
-Bertrand Russell
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"Religions, which condemn the pleasures of sense, drive men to seek the pleasures of power. Throughout history power has been the vice of the ascetic.“
-Bertrand Russell
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"Of all forms of caution, caution in love is perhaps the most fatal to true happiness."
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"To fear love is to fear life, and those who fear life are already three parts dead."
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"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."
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"Do not fear to be eccentric in opinion, for every opinion now accepted was once eccentric."
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"I would never die for my beliefs because I might be wrong."
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