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Of course not. After all, I may be wrong.

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Bertrand Russell
Age: 97 †
Born: 1872
Born: May 18
Died: 1970
Died: February 2
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Mathematics, rightly viewed, possesses not only truth, but supreme beauty-a beauty cold and austere ... yet sublimely pure and capable of stern perfection such as only the greatest art can show.
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It's not what you have lost, but what you have left that counts.
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Our beliefs are, however, often contrary to fact.
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If I were a medical man, I should prescribe a holiday to any patient who considered his work important.
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The newspapers at one time said that I was dead but after carefully examining the evidence I came to the conclusion that this statement was false.
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People who are vigorous and brutal often find war enjoyable.
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I am sometimes shocked by the blasphemies of those who think themselves pious.
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The opinions that are held with passion are always those for which no good ground exists indeed the passion is the measure of the holders lack of rational conviction. Opinions in politics and religion are almost always held passionately.
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Nothing is so exhausting as indecision, and nothing is so futile.
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It is no credit to the orthodox that they do not now believe all the absurdities that were believed 150 years ago. The gradual emasculation of the Christian doctrine has been effected in spite of the most vigorous resistance, and solely as the result of the onslaughts of freethinkers.
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Indemnity for the past and security for the future.
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One who believes, as I do, that the free intellect is the chief engine of human progress, cannot but be fundamentally opposed to Bolshevism, as much as to the Church of Rome.
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Nine-tenths of the activities of a modern Government are harmful therefore the worse they are performed, the better.
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My own view on religion is that of Lucretius. I regard it as a disease born of fear and as a source of untold misery to the human race.
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