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When a man tells you that he knows the exact truth about anything you are safe in inferring that he is an inexact man.
Bertrand Russell
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Bertrand Russell
Age: 97 †
Born: 1872
Born: May 18
Died: 1970
Died: February 2
Analytic Philosopher
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Beggars do not envy millionaires, though of course they will envy other beggars who are more successful.
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I must, before I die, find some way to say the essential thing that is in me, that I have never said yet -- a thing that is not love or hate or pity or scorn, but the very breath of life, fierce and coming from far away, bringing into human life the vastness and the fearful passionless force of non-human things.
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All knowledge, we feel, must be built up upon our instinctive beliefs and if these are rejected, nothing is left.
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Do not feel envious of the happiness of those who live in a fool's paradise, for only a fool will think that is happiness.
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Curious learning not only makes unpleasant things less unpleasant but also makes pleasant things more pleasant.
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Whenever one finds oneself inclined to bitterness, it is a sign of emotional failure.
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America... where law and custom alike are based upon the dreams of spinsters...
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