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In all the creative work that I have done, what has come first is a problem, a puzzle involving discomfort.
Bertrand Russell
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Bertrand Russell
Age: 97 †
Born: 1872
Born: May 18
Died: 1970
Died: February 2
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What science cannot discover, mankind cannot know.
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