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Human nature is so constructed that it gives affection most readily to those who seem least to demand it.
Bertrand Russell
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Bertrand Russell
Age: 97 †
Born: 1872
Born: May 18
Died: 1970
Died: February 2
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The world in which we live can be understood as a result of muddle and accident but if it is the outcome of deliberate purpose, the purpose must have been that of a fiend. For my part, I find accident a less painful and more plausible hypothesis.
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Love and knowledge led upwards to the heavens.
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For love of domination we must substitute equality for love of victory we must substitute justice for brutality we must substitute intelligence for competition we must substitute cooperation. We must learn to think of the human race as one family.
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How much good it would do if one could exterminate the human race.
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Of all forms of caution, caution in love is perhaps the most fatal to true happiness.
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I think that there is far too much work done in the world, that immense harm is caused by the belief that work is virtuous, and that what needs to be preached in modern industrial countries is quite different from what always has been preached.
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The essence of good manners consists in making it clear that one has no wish to hurt. When it is clearly necessary to hurt, it must be done in such a way as to make it evident that the necessity is felt to be regrettable.
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Mankind is divided into two classes: those who, being artificial, praise nature, and those who, being natural, praise art.
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Suppose atomic bombs had reduced the population of the world to one brother and sister should they let the human race die out?
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