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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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Our beliefs are, however, often contrary to fact.
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A European who goes to New York and Chicago sees the future... when he goes to Asia he sees the past.
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Nothing is so exhausting as indecision, and nothing is so futile.
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To realize the unimportance of time is the gate to wisdom.
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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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Self-respect will keep a man from being abject when he is in the power of enemies, and will enable him to feel that he may be in the right when the world is against him.
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To create a healthy philosophy you should renounce metaphysics but be a good mathematician.
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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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There is no nonsense so errant that it cannot be made the creed of the vast majority by adequate governmental action.
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To the primitive mind, everything is either friendly or hostile but experience has shown that friendliness and hostility are not the conceptions by which the world is to be understood.
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The habit of looking to the future and thinking that the whole meaning of the present lies in what it will bring forth is a pernicious one. There can be no value in the whole unless there is value in the parts.
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Meantime, the world in which we exist has other aims. But it will pass away, burnt up in the fire of its own hot passions and from its ashes will spring a new and younger world, full of fresh hope, woth the light of morning in its eyes.
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There is no need to worry about mere size. We do not necessarily respect a fat man more than a thin man. Sir Isaac Newton was very much smaller than a hippopotamus, but we do not on that account value him less.
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How much longer is the world willing to endure this spectacle of wanton cruelty?
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Only in thought is man a God in action and desire we are the slaves of circumstance.
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I do not pretend to start with precise questions. I do not think you can start with anything precise. You have to achieve such precision as you can, as you go along.
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