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The only thing that will redeem mankind is cooperation.
- 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
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
One of the symptoms of an approaching nervous breakdown
is the belief that one's work is terribly important.
- Bertrand Russell
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A widespread belief is more often likely
to be foolish than sensible.
- Bertrand Russell
Conventional people are roused to fury
by departure from convention,
largely because they regard such departure
as a criticism of themselves.
- 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
I am firm; YOU are obstinate; HE is a pig-headed fool.
- 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
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
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
You only meet your once in a lifetime friend ...
once in a lifetime.
- Little Rascals
It is only the great-hearted who can be true friends.
The mean and cowardly can never know what true friendship means.
- Charles Kingsley
The only way to have a friend is to be one.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Each friend represents a world in us,
a world possibly not born until they arrive,
and it is only by this meeting that a new world is born.
- Anais Nin
Friends love misery, in fact.
Sometimes, especially if we are too lucky
or too successful or too pretty,
our misery is the only thing that endears us to our friends.
- Erica Jong
Everyone has a "best friend" during each stage of life,
but only a precious few have the same one.
- Anonymous
Friendship is the only thing in the world
concerning the usefulness of which all mankind are agreed.
- Cicero
Your visions will become clear only
when you can look into your own heart.
Who looks outside, dreams;
who looks inside, awakes.
- Carl Jung
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 
The only reward of virtue is virtue;
the only way to have a friend is to be one.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
The only thing to do is to hug one's friend tight and do one's job.
- Edith Wharton
We're born alone, we live alone, we die alone.
Only through our love and friendship can we
create the illusion for the moment that we're not alone.
- Orson Welles
Darkness cannot drive out darkness;
only light can do that.
Hate cannot drive out hate;
only love can do that.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
Our only security is our ability to change.
- John Lilly
We only see what we want to see,
and hear what we want to hear
- don Miguel Ruiz
Life only
appears to be
rushing toward us
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The only way to get the best of an argument is to avoid it.
- Dale Carnegie
Life only appears complicated when one is worrying.
Relax, and life becomes simple again.
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Only love has the ability to put you in that state of bliss
- don Miguel Ruiz
If your only tool is a hammer,
you tend to see every problem as a nail.
- Abraham Maslow
The only thing we have to fear is fear itself -
nameless, unreasoning, unjustified terror
which paralyzes needed efforts to convert retreat into advance.
- Franklin D. Roosevelt
Feeling sorry for yourself, and your present condition,
is not only a waste of energy
but the worst habit you could possibly have.
- Dale Carnegie
It's work only if I say it's work,
but it's play if I say it's fun.
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Don't marry the person you think you can live with;
marry only the individual you think you can't live without.
- James C. Dobson
We are free only if we face the challenge of freedom,
do the work of freedom, fight the fight of freedom
and die the death for freedom.
- Charles G. Adams
We have no enemies,
we have only friendships that we haven't yet developed
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Only that in you which is me can hear what I'm saying.
- Ram Dass
One never notices what has been done;
one can only see what remains to be done.
- Marie Curie
Hatred does not cease by hatred,
but only by love;
this is the eternal rule.
- The Buddha
The greatest and most important problems of life
are all fundamentally insoluble.
They can never be solved but only outgrown.
- Carl Jung
Life is truly known only to those who suffer,
lose, endure adversity and stumble from defeat to defeat.
- Anais Nin
Regret is an appalling waste of energy,
you can't build on it - it's only good for wallowing in.
- Katherine Mansfield
Truth is absolute, but only to one person.
My truth is absolute to me, and your truth is absolute to you.
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The essence of all religions is one.
Only their approaches are different.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
Life is a series of natural and spontaneous changes.
Don't resist them - that only creates sorrow.
Let reality be reality.
Let things flow naturally forward in whatever way they like.
- Lao Tzu
I look only to the good qualities of men.
Not being faultless myself,
I won't presume to probe into the faults of others.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
The heart knows nothing of the past,
nothing of the future;
it knows only of the present.
- Osho
If the only tool you have is a hammer,
you tend to see every problem as a nail.
- Abraham Maslow
There is only one happiness in life: to love and to be loved.
- George Sand
Peace cannot be achieved through violence,
it can only be attained through understanding.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
If you have only one smile in you,
give it to the people you love.
Don't be surly at home,
then go out in the street
and start grinning good morning
at total strangers.
- Maya Angelou
It is only with the heart that one can see rightly.
- Antoine de Saint-Exupery
Resistance creates suffering.
Stress happens when your mind resists what is.
The only problem in your life
is your mind's resistance to life as it unfolds.
- Dan Millman
The only abnormality is the incapacity to love.
- Anais Nin
My coat and I live comfortably together.
It has assumed all my wrinkles, does not hurt me anywhere,
has moulded itself on my deformities,
and is complacent to all my movements,
and I only feel its presence because it keeps me warm.
Old coats and old friends are the same thing.
- Victor Hugo
Only love and death will change all things.
- Khalil Gibran
The only thing we have to fear is fear itself -
nameless, unreasoning, unjustified, terror.
- Franklin D. Roosevelt
In this life we cannot do great things.
We can only do small things with great love.
- Mother Teresa
The moment a person forms a theory,
his imagination sees in every object
only the traits which favor that theory.
- Thomas Jefferson
Only through experience of trial and suffering
can the soul be strengthened, vision cleared,
ambition inspired, and success achieved.
- Helen Keller
Attention is the ability we have to discriminate
and to focus only on that which we want to perceive.
- don Miguel Ruiz
Every kind of peaceful cooperation among men
is primarily based on mutual trust
and only secondarily on institutions
such as courts of justice and police.
- Albert Einstein
We live in a wonderful world that is
full of beauty, charm and adventure.
There is no end to the adventures that we can have
if only we seek them with our eyes open.
- Jawaharlal Nehru
The only reason you suffer is because you choose to suffer.
The only reason you are happy is because you choose to be happy.
Happiness is a choice, and so is suffering.
- don Miguel Ruiz
We really have to understand the person we want to love.
If our love is only a will to possess, it is not love.
- Thich Nhat Hanh
We could never learn to be brave and patient,
if there were only joy in the world.
- Helen Keller
There is no neutrality.
There is only greater or lesser
awareness of one's bias.
- Phyllis Rose
The only real valuable thing is intuition.
- Albert Einstein
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