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Bertrand Russell
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Bertrand Russell
Age: 97 †
Born: 1872
Born: May 18
Died: 1970
Died: February 2
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Can a society in which thought and technique are scientific persist for a long period, as, for example, ancient Egypt persisted, or does it necessarily contain within itself forces which must bring either decay or explosion?
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Contempt for happiness is usually contempt for other people's happiness, and is an elegant disguise for hatred of the human race.
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The mind is a strange machine which can combine the materials offered to it in the most astonishing ways.
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Common sense, however it tries, cannot avoid being surprised from time to time.
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If we compare Europe with other continents, it is marked out as [another] persecuting continent.
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Many a marriage hardly differs from prostitution, except being harder to escape from.
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Worry is a form of fear, and all forms of fear produce fatigue. A man who has learned not to feel fear will find the fatigue of daily life enormously diminished.
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Choose your parents wisely.
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The satisfaction to be derived from success in a great constructive enterprise is one of the most massive that life has to offer.
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dont let the old break you let the love make you
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Right conduct can never, except by some rare accident, be promoted by ignorance or hindered by knowledge.
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To discover a system for the avoidance of war is a vital need of our civilisation.
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Even in civilized mankind faint traces of monogamous instinct can be perceived.
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I think it would be just to say the most essential characteristic of mind is memory, using this word in its broadest sense to include every influence of past experience on present reactions.
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Never try to discourage thinking, for you are sure to succeed.
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Human nature being what it is, people will insist upon getting some pleasure out of life.
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Literature is inexhaustible, with every book a homage to infinity
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Humanistic ethics is based on the principle that only humans themselves can determine the criterion for virtue and not an authority transcending us.
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If you had the power to destroy the world, would you do so?
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What the world needs is not dogma but an attitude of scientific inquiry combined with a belief that the torture of millions is not desirable, whether inflicted by Stalin or by a Deity imagined in the likeness of the believer
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