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Never try to discourage thinking, for you are sure to succeed.
Bertrand Russell
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Bertrand Russell
Age: 97 †
Born: 1872
Born: May 18
Died: 1970
Died: February 2
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Any pleasure that does no harm to other people is to be valued.
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The fact that an opinion has been widely held is no evidence whatever that it is not utterly absurd.
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The use of force stands in need of control by a public neutral authority, in the interests of liberty no less than of justice. Within a nation, this public authority will naturally be the state in relations between nations, if the present anarchy is to cease, it will have to be some international parliament.
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Dread of disaster makes everybody act in the very way that increases the disaster.
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The luxury to disparage freedom is the privilege of those who already possess it.
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At all times, except when a monarch could enforce his will, war has been facilitated by the fact that vigorous males, confident of victory, enjoyed it, while their females admired them for their prowess.
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The demand for certainty is one which is natural to man, but is nevertheless an intellectual vice. If you take your children for a picnic on a doubtful day, they will demand a dogmatic answer as to whether it will be fine or wet, and be disappointed in you when you cannot be sure.
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Boredom is... a vital problem for the moralist, since half the sins of mankind are caused by the fear of it.
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