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It seems to be the fate of idealists to obtain what they have struggled for in a form which destroys their ideals.
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 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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From India to Spain, the brilliant civilization of Islam flourished. What was lost to christendom at this time was not lost to civilization, but quite the contrary.
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What Galileo and Newton were to the seventeenth century, Darwin was to the nineteenth.
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Memory demands an image.
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We know too much and feel too little.
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