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How much longer is the world willing to endure this spectacle of wanton cruelty?
Bertrand Russell
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Bertrand Russell
Age: 97 †
Born: 1872
Born: May 18
Died: 1970
Died: February 2
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Perhaps the nuclear physicists have come so near to the ultimate secrets that He thinks it time to bring their activities to a stop. And what simpler method could He devise than to let them carry their ingenuity to the point where they exterminate the human race?
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It is not by delusion, however exalted, that mankind can prosper, but only by unswerving courage in the pursuit of truth.
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Indemnity for the past and security for the future.
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Many a marriage hardly differs from prostitution, except being harder to escape from.
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I feel as if one would only discover on one's death bed what one ought to have lived for
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