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Many a marriage hardly differs from prostitution, except being harder to escape from.
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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Bertrand Arthur William Russell
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Freedom in education has many aspects. There is first of all freedom to learn or not to learn. Then there is freedom as to what to learn. And in later education there is freedom of opinion.
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People who are vigorous and brutal often find war enjoyable.
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The first step in a fascist movement is the combination under an energetic leader of a number of men who possess more than the average share of leisure, brutality, and stupidity. The next step is to fascinate fools and muzzle the intelligent, by emotional excitement on the one hand and terrorism on the other.
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As soon as we abandon our own reason, and are content to rely upon authority, there is no end to our troubles.
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When I found myself regarded as respectable, I began to wonder what sins I had committed. I must be very wicked, I thought. I began to engage in the most uncomfortable introspection.
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The key to happiness is accepting one unpleasant reality every day.
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Neither the Church nor modern public opinion condemns petting, provided it stops short at a certain point.
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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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Love, children, and work, are the great sources of fertilizing contact between the individual and the rest of the world.
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Bolshevism is to be reckoned with Mohammedanism rather than with Christianity and Buddhism. Christianity and Buddhism are primarily personal religions, with mystical doctrines and a love of contemplation. Mohammedanism and Bolshevism are practical, social, unspiritual, concerned to win the empire of the world.
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Is the set of all sets which are not members of themselves a member of itself?
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The search for something permanent is one of the deepest of the instincts leading men to philosophy.
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