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Even in civilized mankind faint traces of monogamous instinct can be perceived.
Bertrand Russell
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Bertrand Russell
Age: 97 †
Born: 1872
Born: May 18
Died: 1970
Died: February 2
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Ignore fact and reason, live entirely in the world of your own fantastic and myth-producing passions do this whole-heartedly and with conviction, and you will become one of the prophets of your age.
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Love cannot exists as a duty to tell a child that it ought to love its parents and its brother and sisters is utterly useless, if not worse.
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Extreme hopes are born of extreme misery, and in such a world hopes could only be irrational.
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Intelligence, it might be said, has caused our troubles but it is not unintelligence that will cure them. Only more and wiser intelligence can make a happier world
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Education ought to foster the wish for truth, not the conviction that some particular creed is the truth.
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Change is one thing, progress is another.
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To be able to fill leisure intelligently is the last product of civilization, and at present very few people have reached this level.
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