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Quote by Bertrand Russell
The secret of happiness is this: let your interests be as wide as

The secret of happiness is this: let your interests be as wide as possible, and let your reactions to the things and persons that interest you be as far as possible friendly rather than hostile. – Bertrand Russell

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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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Fear
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The most savage controversies are those about matters as to which there is no good evidence either way. Persecution is used in theology, not in arithmetic. – Bertrand Russell

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Math
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Collective fear stimulates herd instinct, and tends to produce ferocity toward those who are not regarded as members of the herd. – Bertrand Russell

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Well may the boldest fear and the wisest tremble when incurring responsibilities on which may depend our countrys peace and prosperity, and in some degree the hopes and happiness of the whole human family. – James K. Polk

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You believe happiness to be derived from the place in which once you have been happy, but in truth it is centered in ourselves. – Franz Schubert

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The right to happiness is fundamental. – Anna Pavlova

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I say there is not more happiness for me than the freedom of my Homeland. – Islom Karimov

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Mere longevity is a good thing for those who watch Life from the side lines. For those who play the game, an hour may be a year, a single days work an achievement for eternity. – Helen Hayes

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A meal without wine is like a day without sunshine. – Italian proverb

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I listen to music for emotion and I get zero emotion from rap. – Sebastian Bach

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It is the deed that teaches, not the name we give it. Murder and capital punishment are not opposites that cancel one another, but similars that breed their kind. – George Bernard Shaw, Maxims for Revolutionists

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