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It is a waste of

It is a waste of energy to be angry with a man who behaves badly, just as it is to be angry with a car that won't go.
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A stupid man's report of

A stupid man's report of what a clever man says can never be accurate, because he unconciously translates what he hears into something he can understand.
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All movements go too far.

All movements go too far.
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If there were in the

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 paradise in a few years.
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In the part of this

In the part of this universe that we know there is great injustice, and often the good suffer, and often the wicked prosper, and one hardly knows which of those is the more annoying.
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If a man is offered

If a man is offered a fact which goes against his instincts, he will scrutinize it closely, and unless the evidence is overwhelming, he will refuse to believe it. If, on the other hand, he is offered something which affords a reason for acting in accordance to his instincts, he will accept it even on the slightest evidence.
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Every man, wherever he goes,

Every man, wherever he goes, is encompassed by a cloud of comforting convictions, which move with him like flies on a summer day.
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Religion is something left over

Religion is something left over from the infancy of our intelligence, it will fade away as we adopt reason and science as our guidelines.
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I think we ought always

I think we ought always to entertain our opinions with some measure of doubt. I shouldn't wish people dogmatically to believe any philosophy, not even mine.
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The mind is a strange

The mind is a strange machine which can combine the materials offered to it in the most astonishing ways.
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