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The best practical advice I can give to the present generation is to practice the virtue which the Christians call love.
Bertrand Russell
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Bertrand Russell
Age: 97 †
Born: 1872
Born: May 18
Died: 1970
Died: February 2
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There is no nonsense so errant that it cannot be made the creed of the vast majority by adequate governmental action.
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In democratic countries, the most important private organizations are economic. Unlike secret societies, they are able to exercise their terrorism without illegality, since they do not threaten to kill their enemies, but only to starve them.
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The main thing needed to make men happy is intelligence.
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