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Common sense, however it tries, cannot avoid being surprised from time to time.
Bertrand Russell
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Bertrand Russell
Age: 97 †
Born: 1872
Born: May 18
Died: 1970
Died: February 2
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Those who in principle oppose birth control are either incapable of arithmetic or else in favour of war, pestilence and famine as permanent features of human life.
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The world in which we live can be understood as a result of muddle and accident but if it is the outcome of deliberate purpose, the purpose must have been that of a fiend. For my part, I find accident a less painful and more plausible hypothesis.
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Mankind has become so much one family that we cannot insure our own prosperity except by insuring that of everyone else.
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Do not fear to be eccentric in opinion, for every opinion now accepted was once eccentric.
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The method of postulating what we want has many advantages they are the same as the advantages of theft over honest toil.
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Physics is mathematical not because we know so much about the physical world, but because we know so little it is only its mathematical properties that we can discover.
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To fear love is to fear life, and those who fear life are already three parts dead.
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