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To be without some of the things you want is an indispensable part of happiness.
Bertrand Russell
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Bertrand Russell
Age: 97 †
Born: 1872
Born: May 18
Died: 1970
Died: February 2
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In action, in desire, we must submit perpetually to the tyranny of outside forces but in thought, in aspiration, we are free, free from our fellowmen, free from the petty planet on which our bodies impotently crawl, free even, while we live, from the tyranny of death.
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Orthodoxy is the grave of intelligence, no matter what orthodoxy it may be.
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Descartes, the father of modern philosophy ... would never-so he assures us-have been led to construct his philosophy if he had had only one teacher, for then he would have believed what he had been told but, finding that his professors disagreed with each other, he was forced to conclude that no existing doctrine was certain.
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The satisfaction to be derived from success in a great constructive enterprise is one of the most massive that life has to offer.
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Conquer the world by intelligence, and not merely by being slavishly subdued by the terror that comes from it.
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Language serves not only to express thought but to make possible thoughts which could not exist without it.
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There's a Bible on that shelf there. But I keep it next to Voltaire - poison and antidote.
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A man is rational in proportion as his intelligence informs and controls his desires.
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I do not think any reasonable person can doubt that in India, China and Japan, if the knowledge of birth control existed, the birthrate would fall very rapidly
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Upon hearing via Littlewood an exposition on the theory of relativity: To think I have spent my life on absolute muck.
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The whiter my hair becomes, the more ready people are to believe what I say.
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How much good it would do if one could exterminate the human race.
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There is no excuse for deceiving children. And when, as must happen in conventional families, they find that their parents have lied, they lose confidence in them and feel justified in lying to them.
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I am aware that many divines are far more marvelous than I am, and that I cannot wholly appreciate merits so far transcending my own. Nevertheless, even after making allowances under this head, I cannot but think that Omnipotence operating through all eternity might have produced something better.
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