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It's not what you have lost, but what you have left that counts.
Bertrand Russell
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Bertrand Russell
Age: 97 †
Born: 1872
Born: May 18
Died: 1970
Died: February 2
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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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Meantime, the world in which we exist has other aims. But it will pass away, burnt up in the fire of its own hot passions and from its ashes will spring a new and younger world, full of fresh hope, woth the light of morning in its eyes.
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Real life is, to most men, a long second best, a perpetual compromise between the ideal and the possible.
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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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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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Science can teach us, and I think our hearts can teach us, no longer to look around for imaginary supporters, no longer to invent allies in the sky, but rather to look to our own efforts here below to make the world a fit place to live.
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How much good it would do if one could exterminate the human race.
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In America everybody is of the opinion that he has no social superiors, since all men are equal, but he does not admit that he has no social inferiors, for, from the time of Jefferson onward, the doctrine that all men are equal applies only upwards, not downwards.
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When Benjamin Franklin invented the lightning-rod, the clergy, both in England and America, with enthusiastic support of George III, condemned it as an impious attempt to defeat the will of God.
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Religions which have any very strong hold over men's actions have generally some instinctive basis.
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One eminently orthodox Catholic divine laid it down that a confessor may fondle a nun's breasts, provided he does it without evil intent.
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To discover a system for the avoidance of war is a vital need of our civilisation.
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If we compare Europe with other continents, it is marked out as [another] persecuting continent.
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We know too much and feel too little.
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The satisfaction to be derived from success in a great constructive enterprise is one of the most massive that life has to offer.
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For my part, the thing I would wish to obtain from money would be leisure with security. But what the typical modern man desires to get with it is more money, with a view to ostentation, splendour, and the outshining of those who have hitherto been his equals.
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It is only theory that makes men completely incautious.
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Love, children, and work, are the great sources of fertilizing contact between the individual and the rest of the world.
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Your writing is never as good as you hoped but never as bad as you feared.
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There will still be things that machines cannot do. They will not produce great art or great literature or great philosophy they will not be able to discover the secret springs of happiness in the human heart they will know nothing of love and friendship.
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