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The true spirit of delight, the exaltation, the sense of being more than Man, which is the touchstone of the highest excellence, is to be found in mathematics as surely as poetry.
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 best practical advice I can give to the present generation is to practice the virtue which the Christians call love.
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The modern man thinks that everything ought to be done for the sake of something else, and never for its own sake.
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