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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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Bertrand Arthur William Russell
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If you question any candid person who is no longer young, he is very likely to tell you that, having tasted life in this world, he has no wish to begin again as a new boy in another.
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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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I feel as if one would only discover on one's death bed what one ought to have lived for
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Right conduct can never, except by some rare accident, be promoted by ignorance or hindered by knowledge.
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All religions are both harmful and untrue.
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No one gossips about other people's secret virtues.
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I do not think any reasonable person can doubt that in India, China and Japan, if the knowledge of birth control existed, the birthrate would fall very rapidly
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Those who forget good and evil and seek only to know the facts are more likely to achieve good than those who view the world through the distorting medium of their own desires.
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You could take up the line that some of the gnostics took up - a line which I often thought was a very plausible one - that as a matter of fact this world that we know was made by the devil at a moment when God was not looking. There is a good deal to be said for that, and I am not concerned to refute it.
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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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Awareness of universals is called conceiving, and a universal of which we are aware is called a concept.
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It is amusing to hear the modern Christian telling you how mild and rationalistic Christianity really is and ignoring the fact that all its mildness and rationalism is due to the teaching of men who in their own day were persecuted by all orthodox Christians.
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Something of the hermit's temper is an essential element in many forms of excellence, since it enables men to resist the lure of popularity, to pursue important work in spite of general indifference or hostility, and arrive at opinions which are opposed to prevalent errors.
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We know that the exercise of virtue should be its own reward, and it seems to follow that the enduring of it on the part of the patient should be its own punishment.
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The fundamental cause of the trouble is that in the modern world the stupid are cocksure while the intelligent are full of doubt. Even those of the intelligent who believe that they have a nostrum are too individualistic to combine with other intelligent men from whom they differ on minor points.
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Marriage is for women the commonest mode of livelihood, and the total amount of undesired sex endured by women is probably greater in marriage than in prostitution.
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Public opinion is always more tyrannical towards those who obviously fear it than towards those who feel indifferent to it.
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There's a Bible on that shelf there. But I keep it next to Voltaire - poison and antidote.
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Ethics is in origin the art of recommending to others the sacrifices required for cooperation with oneself.
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