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There is no greater reason for children to honour parents than for parents to honour children except, that while the children are young, the parents are stronger than children.

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Bertrand Russell
Age: 97 †
Born: 1872
Born: May 18
Died: 1970
Died: February 2
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The happiness that is genuinely satisfying is accompanied by the fullest exercise of our faculties and the fullest realization of the world in which we live.
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This, however, is a passing nightmare in time the earth will become again incapable of supporting life, and peace will return.
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Some `advanced thinkers' are of the opinion that anyone who differs from the conventional opinion must be in the right. This is a delusion if it were not, truth would be easier to come by than it is.
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If the West can claim superiority in anything, it is . . . in science and scientific technique.
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Envy ... is one form of a vice, partly moral, partly intellectual, which consists in seeing things never in themselves but only in their relations.
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