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Cruelty is, in theory, a perfectly adequate ground for divorce, but it may be interpreted so as to become absurd.
Bertrand Russell
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Bertrand Russell
Age: 97 †
Born: 1872
Born: May 18
Died: 1970
Died: February 2
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Much that passes as idealism is disguised hatred or disguised love of power.
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The pure mathematician, like the musician, is a free creator of his world of ordered beauty.
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If you had the power to destroy the world, would you do so?
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