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If I were a medical man, I should prescribe a holiday to any patient who considered his work important.
Bertrand Russell
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Bertrand Russell
Age: 97 †
Born: 1872
Born: May 18
Died: 1970
Died: February 2
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Dr. Arnold . . . the admired reformer of public schools, came across some cranks who thought it a mistake to flog boys. Anyone reading his outburst of furious indignation against this opinion will be forced to the conclusion that he enjoyed inflicting floggings.
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I used often to go to America during Prohibition, and there was far more drunkenness there then than before the prohibition of pornography has much the same effect.
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Your writing is never as good as you hoped but never as bad as you feared.
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If we were all given by magic the power to read each other's thoughts, I suppose the first effect would be to dissolve all friendships.
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Our great democracies still tend to think that a stupid man is more likely to be honest than a clever man, and our politicians take advantage of this prejudice by pretending to be even more stupid than nature has made them.
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My sad conviction is that people can only agree about what they're not really interested in.
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You must believe that you can help bring about a better world.
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Boys and young men acquire readily the moral sentiments of their social milieu, whatever these sentiments may be.
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Literature is inexhaustible, with every book a homage to infinity
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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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If we spent half an hour every day in silent immobility, I am convinced that we should conduct all our affairs, personal, national, and international, far more sanely than we do at present.
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It is a waste of energy to be angry with a man who behaves badly, just as it is to be angry with a car that won't go.
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The true spirit of delight...is to be found in mathematics as surely as in poetry.
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Religion is based ... mainly upon fear ... fear of the mysterious, fear of defeat, fear of death. Fear is the parent of cruelty, and therefore it is no wonder if cruelty and religion have gone hand in hand. 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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Happiness is not best achieved by those who seek it directly.
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3 is prime, 5 is prime, 7 is prime, 9 is a paradox as is a paradox why the number 1 is not prime if it has no other divisors besides himself.
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