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To think I have spent my life on absolute muck.
Bertrand Russell
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Bertrand Russell
Age: 97 †
Born: 1872
Born: May 18
Died: 1970
Died: February 2
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Those who have never known the deep intimacy and the intense companionship of happy mutual love have missed the best thing that life has to give.
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Mankind has become so much one family that we cannot insure our own prosperity except by insuring that of everyone else.
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Change is one thing, progress is another.
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It is entirely clear that there is only one way in which great wars can be permanently prevented, and that is the establishment of an international government with a monopoly of serious armed force.
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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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The essence of good manners consists in making it clear that one has no wish to hurt. When it is clearly necessary to hurt, it must be done in such a way as to make it evident that the necessity is felt to be regrettable.
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Heretical views arise when the truth is uncertain, and it is only when the truth is uncertain that censorship is invoked.
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The wise man will be as happy as circumstances permit, and if he finds the contemplation of the universe painful beyond a point, he will contemplate something else instead.
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Gradually, by selective breeding, the congenital differences between rulers and ruled will increase until they become almost different species. A revolt of the plebs would become as unthinkable as an organized insurrection of sheep against the practice of eating mutton.
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Philosophy bakes no bread
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A generation educated in fearless freedom will have wider and bolder hopes than are possible to us
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It is only theory that makes men completely incautious.
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Dread of disaster makes everybody act in the very way that increases the disaster. Psychologically the situation is analogous to that of people trampled to death when there is a panic in a theatre caused by a cry of `Fire!'.
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Artists are on the average less happy than men of science.
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In considering irregular appearances, there are certain very natural mistakes which must be avoided.
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