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Bertrand Russell Quotes: It is the preoccupation with possessions, more than anything else, that prevents us from living freely and nobly.
         

It is the preoccupation with possessions, more than anything else, that prevents us from living freely and nobly.


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The time you enjoy wasting is not wasted time.



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If there were in the world today any large number of people who desired their own happiness more than they desired the unhappiness of others, we could have a paradise in a few years.

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We have in fact, two kinds of morality, side by side: one which we preach, but do not practice, and another which we practice, but seldom preach.

We have in fact, two kinds of morality, side by side: one which we preach, but do not practice, and another which we practice, but seldom preach.



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The fact that an opinion has been widely held is no evidence whatever that it is not utterly absurd.



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