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Ants and savages put strangers to death.
Bertrand Russell
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Bertrand Russell
Age: 97 †
Born: 1872
Born: May 18
Died: 1970
Died: February 2
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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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If one lived for ever the joys of life would inevitably in the end lose their savour. As it is, they remain perennially fresh.
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Is the set of all sets which are not members of themselves a member of itself?
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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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Christ . . . said that a man who had looked after a woman lustfully had sinned as much as the man who had seduced her. How absurd!
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Each act of cruelty is eternally a part of the universe nothing that happens later can make that act good rather than bad, or can confer perfection on the whole of which it is a part.
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We know very little, and yet it is astonishing that we know so much, and still more astonishing that so little knowledge can give us so much power.
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