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There is no reason to suppose that the world had a beginning at all. The idea that things must have a beginning is really due to the poverty of our thoughts.
Bertrand Russell
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Bertrand Russell
Age: 97 †
Born: 1872
Born: May 18
Died: 1970
Died: February 2
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People who are vigorous and brutal often find war enjoyable.
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One must care about a world one will not see.
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Change is one thing, progress is another.
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[Kant] was like many people: in intellectual matters he was skeptical, but in moral matters he believed imjplicitly in the maximx that he had imbibed at his mother's knee.
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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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