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Lack of clarity is always a sign of dishonesty.
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Clarity
Dishonesty
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A narrow mind and a wide mouth usually go together.
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Mind
Mouths
Together
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People having religions is an insult to the universe.
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Insult
People
Universe
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The remarkable thing about the human mind is its range of limitations.
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Happiness
Mind
Range
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The psychology of committees is a special case of the psychology of mobs.
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Cases
Psychology
Special
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I cannot write long books; I leave that for those who have nothing to say.
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Book
Long
Writing
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One of the greatest superstitions of our time is the belief that it has none.
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Belief
Our Time
Superstitions
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Only the impossible is worth attempting. In everything else one is sure to fail.
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Attempting
Failing
Impossible
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The human race's favorite method for being in control of facts is to ignore them.
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Facts
Method
Race
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The way to do research is to attack the facts at the point of greatest astonishment.
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Women
Science
Astonishment
Facts
Memorable
Research
Greatest
Attack
Point
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Research is a way of taking calculated risks to bring about incalculable consequences.
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Research
Risk
Way
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It is superfluous to be humble on one's own behalf; so many people are willing to do it for one.
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Behalf
Humble
People
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People accept their limitations so as to prevent themselves from wanting anything they might get.
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Accepting
Might
People
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People have been marrying and bringing up children for centuries now. Nothing has ever come of it.
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Century
Children
People
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The only important thing to realise about history is that it all took place in the last five minutes.
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History
Important
Lasts
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The human race has to be bad at psychology; if it were not, it would understand why it is bad at everything else.
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Humans
Psychology
Race
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When someone says his conclusions are objective, he means that they are based on prejudices which many other people share.
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Mean
People
Prejudice
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In an autocracy, one person has his way; in an aristocracy, a few people have their way; in a democracy, no one has his way.
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Aristocracy
Democracy
People
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If you stand up to the human race you lose something called their 'goodwill'; if you kowtow to them you gain ... their permission to continue kowtowing.
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Conformity
Gains
Race
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It is easier to study the 'behavior' of rats than people, because rats are smaller and have fewer outside commitments. So modern psychology is mostly about rats
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Commitment
People
Psychology
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Most of the research which is done is determined by the requirement that it shall, in a fairly obvious and predictable way, reinforce the approved or fashionable theories.
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Approved
Determined
Done
Fashionable
Obvious
Predictable
Requirements
Research
Way
Fairly
Reinforce
Requirement
Shall
Theories
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Society expresses its sympathy for the geniuses of the past to distract attention from the fact that it has no intention of being sympathetic to the geniuses of the present.
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Attention
Genius
Past
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It is curious that while one's education is the part of one's life over the conditions of which one has least individual control, the results of it are held to brand one irrevocably.
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Curious
Individual
Results
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That society exists to frustrate the individual may be seen from its attitude to work. It is only morally acceptable if you do not want to do it. If you do want to, it becomes a personal pleasure.
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Work
Attitude
May
Want
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Young people wonder how the adult world can be so boring. The secret is that it is not boring to adults because they have learnt to enjoy simple things like covert malice at one another's expense.
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People
Secret
Simple
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It is inconceivable that anything should be existing. It is not inconceivable that a lot of people should also be existing who are not interested in the fact that they exist. But it is certainly very odd.
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Facts
Odd
People
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Physics has never been a comfortable subject for human psychology. The desire to regard everything outside the human race's purview as insignificant, and everything within that purview as firmly under the control of tribal myth and custom, is as strong today as it was in the time of Galileo.
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Science
Race
Strong
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The charms of money are distinctly under-represented in literature. There are no songs or poems extolling its virtues. This seems on the face of it strange. The claims of money to be celebrated in verse might well seem to be no less than those of faithful dogs, beautiful women, or jugs of wine.
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Beautiful
Dog
Song
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The chief difficulty of modern theoretical physics resides not in the fact that it expresses itself almost exclusively in mathematical symbols, but in the psychological difficulty of supposing that complete nonsense can be seriously promulgated and transmitted by persons who have sufficient intelligence of some kind to perform operations in differential and integral calculus.
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Science
Supposing That
Theoretical Physics
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What appear to be the most valuable aspects of the theoretical physics we have are the mathematical descriptions which enable us to predict events. These equations are, we would argue, the only realities we can be certain of in physics; any other ways we have of thinking about the situation are visual aids or mnemonics which make it easier for beings with our sort of macroscopic experience to use and remember the equations.
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Reality
Theoretical Physics
Thinking
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