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The pure mathematician, like the musician, is a free creator of his world of ordered beauty.
Bertrand Russell
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Bertrand Russell
Age: 97 †
Born: 1872
Born: May 18
Died: 1970
Died: February 2
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This, however, is a passing nightmare in time the earth will become again incapable of supporting life, and peace will return.
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