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A man without a bias cannot write interesting history - if indeed such a man exists.

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Bertrand Russell
Age: 97 †
Born: 1872
Born: May 18
Died: 1970
Died: February 2
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[One] must look into hell before one has any right to speak of heaven.
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What Galileo and Newton were to the seventeenth century, Darwin was to the nineteenth.
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