"The fundamental concept in social science is Power, in the same sense in which Energy is the fundamental concept in physics."
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"The best life is the one in which the creative impulses play the largest part and the possessive impulses the smallest."
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"Science is what you know, philosophy is what you don't know."
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"I would never die for my beliefs because I might be wrong."
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"The world is full of magical things patiently waiting for our wits to grow sharper."
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"My whole religion is this: do every duty, and expect no reward for it, either here or hereafter."
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"Do not feel envious of the happiness of those who live in a fool's paradise, for only a fool will think that is happiness."
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"Too little liberty brings stagnation, and too much brings chaos."
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"Why is propaganda so much more successful when it stirs up hatred than when it tries to stir up friendly feeling?"
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"Next to worry probably one of the most potent causes of unhappiness is envy."
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"Find more pleasure in intelligent dissent than in passive agreement, for, if you value intelligence as you should, the former implies a deeper agreement than the latter."
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"Most of the greatest evils that man has inflicted upon man have come through people feeling quite certain about something which, in fact, was false."
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"Life is just one cup of coffee after another, and don't look for anything else."
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"A happy life must be to a great extent a quiet life, for it is only in an atmosphere of quiet that true joy dare live."
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"When two great powers disagree about anything - it doesn't matter what - they must find a way to settle it somehow by arbitration or by negotiation, not by war or threat of war."
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"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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"The more things a man is interested in, the more opportunities of happiness he has and the less he is at the mercy of fate, since if he loses one thing he can fall back upon another."
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"Extreme hopes are born of extreme misery, and in such a world hopes could only be irrational."
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"When two men of science disagree, they do not invoke the secular arm; they wait for further evidence to decide the issue, because, as men of science, they know that neither is infallible. But when two theologians differ, since there is no criteria to which either can appeal, there is nothing for it but mutual hatred and an open or covert appeal to force."
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"Democracy is the process by which people choose the man who'll get the blame."
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