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One's work is never so bad as it appears on bad days, nor so good as it appears on good days.
Bertrand Russell
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Bertrand Russell
Age: 97 †
Born: 1872
Born: May 18
Died: 1970
Died: February 2
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Science, by itself cannot, supply us with an ethic.
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There's a Bible on that shelf there. But I keep it next to Voltaire - poison and antidote.
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War does not determine who is right - only who is left.
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Machines deprive us of two things which are certainly important ingredients of human happiness, namely, spontaneity and variety.
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It is amusing to hear the modern Christian telling you how mild and rationalistic Christianity really is and ignoring the fact that all its mildness and rationalism is due to the teaching of men who in their own day were persecuted by all orthodox Christians.
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I went to Salt Lake City and the Mormons tried to convert me, but when I found they forbade tea and tobacco I thought it was no religion for me.
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To realize the unimportance of time is the gate to wisdom.
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