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One should respect public opinion insofar
by Bertrand Russell

One should respect public opinion insofar
as is necessary to avoid starvation and keep out of prison,
but anything that goes beyond this
is voluntary submission to an unnecessary tyranny.
- Bertrand Russell

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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

The only thing that will redeem mankind is cooperation.
- Bertrand Russell

Neither a man nor a crowd nor a nation
can be trusted to act humanely
or to think sanely under the influence of a great fear.
- Bertrand Russell

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- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Conventional people are roused to fury
by departure from convention,
largely because they regard such departure
as a criticism of themselves.
- Bertrand Russell

One of the symptoms of an approaching nervous breakdown
is the belief that one's work is terribly important.
- Bertrand Russell

A widespread belief is more often likely
to be foolish than sensible.
- Bertrand Russell

 

I am firm; YOU are obstinate; HE is a pig-headed fool.
- Bertrand Russell

If an opinion contrary to your own makes you angry,
that is a sign that you are subconsciously aware
of having no good reason for thinking as you do.
- Bertrand Russell

To conquer fear is the beginning of wisdom.
- Bertrand Russell

It is the things for which there is no evidence
that are believed with passion.
- Bertrand Russell

Man is a credulous animal, and must believe something;
in the absence of good grounds for belief,
he will be satisfied with bad ones.
- Bertrand Russell

The whole problem with the world is that
fools and fanatics are always so certain of themselves,
but wiser people so full of doubts.
- Bertrand Russell

Love one another but make not a bond of love.
Let it rather be a moving sea
between the shores of your souls.
- Khalil Gibran

We can never replace a friend.
When a man is fortunate enough to have several,
he finds they are all different.
No one has a double in friendship.
- Johann Schiller

Friends... they cherish one another's hopes.
They are kind to one another's dreams.
- Henry David Thoreau

Friendship is one mind in two bodies.
- Mencius

The only reward of virtue is virtue;
the only way to have a friend is to be one.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

Friendship with one's self is all important,
because without it one cannot be friends with anyone else in the world.
- Eleanor Roosevelt

One loyal friend is worth ten thousand relatives.
- Euripides

A man's friendships are one of the best measures of his worth.
- Charles Darwin

Everyone has a "best friend" during each stage of life,
but only a precious few have the same one.
- Anonymous

A friend is one before whom I can think aloud.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

It is one of the blessings of old friends
that you can afford to be stupid with them.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

The greatest compliment that was ever paid me
was when one asked me what I thought,
and attended to my answer.
- Henry David Thoreau

My best friend is the one who brings out the best in me.
- Henry Ford

A true friend is the one who
walks in when others walk out.
- Walter Winchell

A true friend is one who believes in you
when you have ceased to believe in yourself.
- Anonymous

Friendship is a strong and habitual inclination in two persons
to promote the good and happiness of one another.
- Eustace Budgell

Friendship without self-interest
is one of the rare and beautiful things in life.
- James Francis Byrnes

The only way to have a friend is to be one.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

Each contact with a human being is so rare, so precious,
one should preserve it.
- Anais Nin

Remember, we all stumble, every one of us.
That's why it's a comfort to go hand in hand.
- Emily Kimbrough

One measure of friendship consists
not in the number of things friends can discuss,
but in the number of things they need no longer mention.
- Clifton Fadiman

Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one's courage.
- Anais Nin

Sometimes new love comes between old friends.
Sometimes the best love was the one that was always there.
- Anonymous

A friend is one who has the same enemies as you have.
- Abraham Lincoln

There's a big difference between a handout and a helping hand.
One's charity, the other's friendship.
- Little Joe' Cartwright in Bonanza - Rain from Heaven

A real friend is one who walks in
when the rest of the world walks out.
- Walter Winchell

A friend is one who knows us, but loves us anyway.
- Jerome Cummings

Laughter is not at all a bad beginning for a friendship,
and it is far the best ending for one.
- Oscar Wilde

Friendship is a thing most necessary to life,
since without friends no one would choose to live,
though possessed of all other advantages.
- Aristotle

A friend is one who walks in when others walk out
- Walter Winchell

In true friendship, one can express
anything and everything without feeling ashamed
or afraid of being rejected.
- Aparna Chatterjee

Friendship is not possible between two women
one of whom is very well dressed.
- Laurie Colwin

The only thing to do is to hug one's friend tight and do one's job.
- Edith Wharton

One is taught by experience to put a premium
on those few people who can appreciate you for what you are.
- Gail Godwin

Friendship is born at that moment
when one person says to another,
"What! You too? I thought I was the only one."
- C. S. Lewis

One of the most beautiful qualities of true friendship
is to understand and to be understood.
- Lucius Annaeus Seneca

The easiest kind of friendship for me
is with ten thousand people.
The hardest is with one.
- Joan Baez

It is easy enough to be pleasant
When life flows by like a song,
But the man worth while is the one who will smile
When everything goes dead wrong.
- Ella Wheeler Wilcox

NO ONE is really different;
each of us is actually a member of the human race.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

It is only with the heart that one can see rightly.
- Antoine de Saint-Exupery

One can never speak enough of the virtues,
the dangers, the power of shared laughter.
- Francoise Sagan

One machine can do the work of fifty ordinary men.
No machine can do the work of one extraordinary man.
- Elbert Hubbard

Truth is absolute, but only to one person.
My truth is absolute to me, and your truth is absolute to you.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

The shoe that fits one person pinches another;
there is no recipe for living that suits all cases.
- Carl Jung

One never notices what has been done;
one can only see what remains to be done.
- Marie Curie

Doing an injury puts you below your enemy;
revenging one make you but even with him;
forgiving it sets you above him.
- Benjamin Franklin [attributed]

The simplification of life is one of the steps to inner peace.
A persistent simplification will create an inner and outer well-being
that places harmony in one's life.
- Peace Pilgrim

No one has yet realized the wealth of sympathy,
the kindness and generosity hidden in the soul of a child.
The effort of every true education should be to unlock that treasure.
- Emma Goldman

Having a personal opinion is great.
Believing that one's personal opinion is absolute truth
leads to most of the world's troubles.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Being a role model is the most powerful form of educating.
Youngsters need good models more than they need critics.
It's one of a parent's greatest responsibilities and opportunities.
- John Wooden

Understanding does not cure evil,
but it is a definite help,
inasmuch as one can cope
with a comprehensible darkness.
- Carl Jung

In great contests, each party claims to act
in accordance with the will of God.
Both may be, and one must be wrong.
- Abraham Lincoln

Choose your life's mate carefully.
From this one decision will come
90 percent of all your happiness or misery.
- H. Jackson Brown, Jr.

This day I will marry my friend,
the one I laugh with, live for, dream with, love.
- Anonymous

No one is in control of your happiness but you;
therefore, you have the power to change anything
about yourself or your life that you want to change.
- Barbara De Angelis

Satisfaction of one's curiosity
is one of the greatest sources of happiness in life.
- Linus Pauling

My Chosen Family
You are my family, but we don't share blood.
You are my family by choice.
The most powerful bond is the one that we choose.
I choose you as my friend, and rejoice.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

A mother is one to whom you hurry when you are troubled.
- Emily Dickinson


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