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War grows out of ordinary human nature.
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 mind is a strange machine which can combine the materials offered to it in the most astonishing ways.
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All definite knowledge - so I should contend - belongs to science all dogma as to what surpasses definite knowledge belongs to theology. But between theology and science there is a No Man's Land, exposed to attack by both sides this No Man's Land is philosophy.
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All serious innovation is only rendered possible by some accident enabling unpopular persons to survive.
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A sense of duty is useful in work but offensive in personal relations. People wish to be liked, not to be endured with patient resignation.
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The pleasure of work is open to anyone who can develop some specialised skill, provided that he can get satisfaction from the exercise of his skill without demanding universal applause.
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How much good it would do if one could exterminate the human race.
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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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It is not my prayer and humility that you cause things to go as you wish, but by acquiring a knowledge of natural laws.
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The conception of the necessary unit of all that is resolves itself into the poverty of the imagination, and a freer logic emancipates us from the straitwaistcoated benevolent institution, which idealism palms off as the totality of being.
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One of the most interesting and harmful delusions to which men and nations can be subjected is that of imagining themselves special instruments of the Divine Will.
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Affection cannot be created it can only be liberated.
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