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The pleasure of work is open to anyone who can develop some specialised skill, provided that he can get satisfaction from the exercise of his skill without demanding universal applause.
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 law of causality, I believe, like much that passes muster among philosophers, is a relic of a bygone age, surviving, like the monarchy, only because it is erroneously supposed to do no harm.
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War...seems a mere madness, a collective insanity.
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Grasshopper always wrong in argument with chicken.
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Bad philosophers may have a certain influence good philosophers, never.
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All definite knowledge - so I should contend - belongs to science all dogma as to what surpasses definite knowledge belongs to theology. But between theology and science there is a No Man's Land, exposed to attack by both sides this No Man's Land is philosophy.
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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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It has been said that man is a rational animal. All my life I have been searching for evidence which could support this.
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Obscenity is whatever happens to shock some elderly and ignorant magistrate.
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