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Worry is a form of fear.
Bertrand Russell
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Bertrand Russell
Age: 97 †
Born: 1872
Born: May 18
Died: 1970
Died: February 2
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With civilized men..., it is, I think, chiefly love of excitement which makes the populace applaud when war breaks out the emotion is exactly the same as at a football match, although the results are sometimes somewhat more serious.
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St. Paul introduced an entirely novel view of marriage, that it existed primarily to prevent the sin of fornication. It is just as if one were to maintain that the sole reason for baking bread is to prevent people from stealing cake.
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Fervent religious believers sacrifice pleasures of the body, but instead enjoy pleasures of the mind, including the joy of knowing that those men who didn't follow their religion would be tortured for eternity.
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If you wish to be happy yourself, you must resign yourself to seeing others also happy.
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Grasshopper always wrong in argument with chicken.
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The sentiments of an adult are compounded of a kernel of instinct surrounded by a vast husk of education.
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Physics, owing to the simplicity of its subject matter, has reached a higher state of development than any other science.
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