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I am firm YOU are obstinate HE is a pig-headed fool.
Bertrand Russell
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Bertrand Russell
Age: 97 †
Born: 1872
Born: May 18
Died: 1970
Died: February 2
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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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The demand for certainty is one which is natural to man, but is nevertheless an intellectual vice. If you take your children for a picnic on a doubtful day, they will demand a dogmatic answer as to whether it will be fine or wet, and be disappointed in you when you cannot be sure.
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The first step in wisdom, as well as in morality, is to open the windows of the ego as wide as possible.
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Every advance in civilization has been denounced as unnatural while it was recent
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I think that there is far too much work done in the world, that immense harm is caused by the belief that work is virtuous, and that what needs to be preached in modern industrial countries is quite different from what always has been preached.
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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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There is an element of the busybody in our conception of virtue: unless a man makes himself a nuisance to a great many people, we do not think he can be an exceptionally good man.
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I used often to go to America during Prohibition, and there was far more drunkenness there then than before the prohibition of pornography has much the same effect.
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Dora and I are now married, but just as happy as we were before.
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To acquire immunity to eloquence is of the utmost importance to the citizens of a democracy.
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A smell of petroleum prevails throughout.
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At all times, except when a monarch could enforce his will, war has been facilitated by the fact that vigorous males, confident of victory, enjoyed it, while their females admired them for their prowess.
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When all experts agree, you need to watch out.
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There may be no good reasons for very many opinions that are held with passion.
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What was exciting in the Victorian Age, would leave a man of franker epoch quite unmoved. The more prudes restrict the permissible degree of sexual appeal, the less is required to make such an appeal effective.
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No matter how eloquently a dog may bark, he cannot tell you that his parents were poor, but honest.
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A man's acts are partly determined by spontaneous impulse, partly by the conscious and unconscious effects of the various groups to which he belongs.
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I consider the official Catholic attitude on divorce, birth control, and censorship exceedingly dangerous to mankind.
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Be isolated, be ignored, be attacked, be in doubt, be frightened, but do not be silenced.
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The first essential character [of civilization], I should say, is forethought. This, indeed, is what mainly distinguishes men from brutes and adults from children.
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