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What science cannot discover, mankind cannot know.
Bertrand Russell
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Bertrand Russell
Age: 97 †
Born: 1872
Born: May 18
Died: 1970
Died: February 2
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Self-respect will keep a man from being abject when he is in the power of enemies, and will enable him to feel that he may be in the right when the world is against him.
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The Stoic assures us that what is happening now will happen over and over again. [If so, Providende would] ultimately grow weary through despair.
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[One] must look into hell before one has any right to speak of heaven.
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Much that passes as idealism is disguised hatred or disguised love of power.
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My whole religion is this: do every duty, and expect no reward for it, either here or hereafter.
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