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To acquire immunity to eloquence is of the utmost importance to the citizens of a democracy.
Bertrand Russell
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Bertrand Russell
Age: 97 †
Born: 1872
Born: May 18
Died: 1970
Died: February 2
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Bertrand Arthur William Russell
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But I simply can't stand a view limited to this earth, I feel life is so small unless it has windows into other worlds...I like mathematics largely because it is not human.
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What men really want is not knowledge but certainty.
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The method of postulating what we want has many advantages they are the same as the advantages of theft over honest toil.
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Whenever one finds oneself inclined to bitterness, it is a sign of emotional failure.
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Real life is, to most men, a long second best, a perpetual compromise between the ideal and the possible.
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