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" I think we may safely trust a good deal more than we do."

~ Henry David Thoreau

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" Humanism is optimistic regarding human nature and confident in human reason and science as the best means of reaching the goal of human fulfillment in this world. Humanists affirm that humans are a product of the same evolutionary process that produced all other living organisms and that all ideas, knowledge, values, and social systems are based upon human experience. Humanists conclude that creative ability and personal responsibility are strongest when the mind is free from supernatural belief and operates in an atmosphere of freedom and democracy. - published in Free Mind, American Humanist Association."

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" There are two motives for reading a book: one, that you enjoy it; the other, that you can boast about it."

~ Bertrand Russell

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Happiness Positive

" Men rush to California and Australia as if the true gold were to be found in that direction; but that is to go to the very opposite extreme to where it lies. They go prospecting farther and farther away from the true lead, and are most unfortunate when they think themselves most successful."

~ Henry David Thoreau

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" The great teachings unanimously emphasize that all the peace, wisdom, and joy in the universe are already within us; we don't have to gain, develop, or attain them. We're like a child standing in a beautiful park with his eyes shut tight. We don't need to imagine trees, flowers, deer, birds, and sky; we merely need to open our eyes and realize what is already here, who we really are -- as soon as we quit pretending we're small or unholy."

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Happiness Positive

" Three passions have governed my life:
The longings for love, the search for knowledge,
And unbearable pity for the suffering of [humankind]. Love brings ecstasy and relieves loneliness.
In the union of love I have seen
In a mystic miniature the prefiguring vision
Of the heavens that saints and poets have imagined. With equal passion I have sought knowledge.
I have wished to understand the hearts of [people].
I have wished to know why the stars shine. Love and knowledge led upwards to the heavens,
But always pity brought me back to earth;
Cries of pain reverberated in my heart
Of children in famine, of victims tortured
And of old people left helpless.
I long to alleviate the evil, but I cannot,
And I too suffer. This has been my life; I found it worth living.

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~ Bertrand Russell

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Life Quotes Love Quotes

" In his later years Pablo Picasso was not allowed to roam an art gallery unattended, for he had previously been discovered in the act of trying to improve on one of his old masterpieces."

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"Some leaders are born women. "

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" I found one day in school a boy of medium size ill-treating a smaller boy. I expostulated, but he replied: 'The bigs hit me, so I hit the babies; that's fair.' In these words he epitomized the history of the human race.

Education and the Social Order

~ Bertrand Russell

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Education Quotes

"Two different theories exist concerning the origin of children: the theory of Sexual reproduction, and the theory of the stork. Many people believe in the theory of sexual reproduction because they have been taught this theory at school. In reality, however, many of the world's leading scientists are in favor of the theory of the stork. If the theory of sexual reproduction is taught in schools, it must only be taught as a theory and not as the truth. Alternative theories, such as the theory of the stork, must also be taught. "

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" One of the signs of passing youth is the birth of a sense of fellowship with other human beings as we take our place among them."

~ Virginia Woolf

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" When one admits that nothing is certain one must, I think, also add that some things are more nearly certain than others.

"Am I an Atheist or an Agnostic?"

~ Bertrand Russell

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" Asking if computers can think is like asking if submarines can swim."

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" When an arguer argues dispassionately he thinks only of the argument."

~ Virginia Woolf

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" Everything is vague to a degree you do not realize till you have tried to make it precise.

"The Philosophy of Logical Atomism"

~ Bertrand Russell

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" If debugging is the process of removing bugs, then programming must be the process of putting them in."

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" The beauty of the world has two edges, one of laughter, one of anguish, cutting the heart asunder."

~ Virginia Woolf

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" The place of the father in the modern suburban family is a very small one, particularly if he plays golf."

~ Bertrand Russell

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" Love must be as much a light as it is a flame."

~ Henry David Thoreau

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" [C]reative ability and personal responsibility are strongest when the mind is free from supernatural belief and operates in an atmosphere of freedom and democracy."

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" Yet it is in our idleness, in our dreams, that the submerged truth sometimes comes to the top."

~ Virginia Woolf

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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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"Public sentiment is everything. With public sentiment nothing can fail; without it nothing can succeed. He who molds public sentiment goes deeper than he who enacts statutes or decisions possible or impossible to execute. "

~ Abraham Lincoln

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" In this world of sin and sorrow there is always something to be thankful for; as for me, I rejoice that I am not a Republican."

~ H. L. Mencken

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" I have learned, that if one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams, and endeavors to live the life he has imagined, he will meet with a success unexpected in common hours."

~ Henry David Thoreau

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Life Quotes Success

" That I am not a member of any Christian Church, is true; but I have never denied the truth of the Scriptures; and I have never spoken with intentional disrespect of religion in general, or of any denomination of Christians in particular."

~ Abraham Lincoln

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" To be in love is merely to be in a state of perceptual anesthesia -- to mistake an ordinary young man for a Greek god or an ordinary young woman for a goddess.

Prejudices, 1919

~ H. L. Mencken

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Love Quotes Women

" I was determined to know beans. Walden"

~ Henry David Thoreau

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" Friends, I agree with you in Providence; but I believe in the Providence of the most men, the largest purse, and the longest cannon. 1854"

~ Abraham Lincoln

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" Philosophy consists very largely of one philosopher arguing that all others are jackasses. He usually proves it, and I should add that he also usually proves that he is one himself."

~ H. L. Mencken

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