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A smile happens in a flash, but its memory can last a lifetime.
Bertrand Russell
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Bertrand Russell
Age: 97 †
Born: 1872
Born: May 18
Died: 1970
Died: February 2
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Man can be stimulated by hope or driven by fear, but the hope and the fear must be vivid and immediate if they are to be effective without producing weariness.
Bertrand Russell
Next to enjoying ourselves, the next greatest pleasure consists in preventing others from enjoying themselves, or, more generally, in the acquisition of power.
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A life which goes excessively against natural impulse is... likely to involve effects of strain that may be quite as bad as indulgence in forbidden impulses would have been. People who live a life which is unnatural beyond a point are likely to be filled with envy, malice and uncharitableness.
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The man who has fed the chicken every day throughout its life at last wrings its neck instead, showing that more refined views as to the uniformity of nature would have been useful to the chicken.
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It is obviously possible that what we call waking life may only be an unusual and persistent nightmare.
Bertrand Russell
Worry is a form of fear, and all forms of fear produce fatigue. A man who has learned not to feel fear will find the fatigue of daily life enormously diminished.
Bertrand Russell
All knowledge, we feel, must be built up upon our instinctive beliefs and if these are rejected, nothing is left.
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Belief in God and a future life makes it possible to go through life with less of stoic courage than is needed by skeptics.
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Our beliefs are, however, often contrary to fact.
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Science is what we know, and philosophy is what we don't know.
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Government can easily exist without laws, but law cannot exist without government.
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I've always thought respectable people scoundrels, and I look anxiously at my face every morning for signs of my becoming a scoundrel.
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If you wish to be happy yourself, you must resign yourself to seeing others also happy.
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Man is a rational animal – so at least I have been told. Throughout a long life, I have looked diligently for evidence in favour of this statement, but so far I have not had the good fortune to come across it, though I have searched in many countries spread over three continents.
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A marriage is likely to be called happy if neither party ever expected to get much happiness out of it.
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The purpose of education is to teach a defense against eloquence.
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If we were all given by magic the power to read each other's thoughts, I suppose the first effect would be to dissolve all friendships.
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Thought is merciless to privilege, established institutions, and comfortable habit.
Bertrand Russell
I used often to go to America during Prohibition, and there was far more drunkenness there then than before the prohibition of pornography has much the same effect.
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RELIGION: A set of beliefs held as dogmas, dominating the conduct of life, going beyond or contrary to evidence, and inculcated by methods which are emotional or authoritarian, not intellectual.
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