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The secret to happiness is to face the fact that the world is horrible.
Bertrand Russell
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Bertrand Russell
Age: 97 †
Born: 1872
Born: May 18
Died: 1970
Died: February 2
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The place of the father in the modern suburban family is a very small one, particularly if he plays golf.
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The world in which we live can be understood as a result of muddle and accident but if it is the outcome of deliberate purpose, the purpose must have been that of a fiend. For my part, I find accident a less painful and more plausible hypothesis.
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A European who goes to New York and Chicago sees the future... when he goes to Asia he sees the past.
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Broadly speaking, Protestants like to be good and have invented theology in order to keep themselves so, whereas Catholics like to be bad and have invented theology in order to keep their neighbors good. Hence, the social character of Catholicism and the individual character of Protestantism.
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The whole problem with the world is that fools and fanatics are always so certain of themselves, and wiser people so full of doubts.
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A marriage is likely to be called happy if neither party ever expected to get much happiness out of it.
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At the age of eleven, I began Euclid, with my brother as my tutor. This was one of the great events of my life, as dazzling as first love. I had not imagined there was anything so delicious in the world. From that moment until I was thirty-eight, mathematics was my chief interest and my chief source of happiness.
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Public opinion is always more tyrannical towards those who obviously fear it than towards those who feel indifferent to it.
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