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Boredom is... a vital problem for the moralist, since half the sin

Boredom is… a vital problem for the moralist, since half the sins of mankind are caused by the fear of it. – Bertrand Russell

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Contempt for happiness is usually contempt for other peoples happiness, and is an elegant disguise for hatred of the human race. – Bertrand Russell

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Happiness
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Bertrand Russell
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We are faced with the paradoxical fact that education has become one of the chief obstacles to intelligence and freedom of thought. – Bertrand Russell

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Education
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Bertrand Russell
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When you advise any person you should be guided by the fear of God. – Abu Bakr

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Fear

But to be the best, you must face the best. And to overcome your fear, you must deal with the best. – Barry Bonds

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Fear

We have perhaps a natural fear of ends. We would rather be always on the way than arrive. Given the means, we hang on to them and often forget the ends. – Eric Hoffer

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Fear

The mark of fear is not easily removed. – Ernest Gaines

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Humorists can never start to take themselves seriously. Its literary suicide. – Erma Bombeck

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But what we call our despair is often only the painful eagerness of unfed hope. – George Eliot

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It is not happiness until you capture it and store it out of the reach of time. – Robert Brault, rbrault.blogspot.com

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Man will never be free until the last king is strangled with the entrails of the last priest. – Denis Diderot

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