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We may often do as we please - but we cannot please as we please.
Bertrand Russell
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Bertrand Russell
Age: 97 †
Born: 1872
Born: May 18
Died: 1970
Died: February 2
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Bertrand Arthur William Russell
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Look at me. Look at me is one of the fundamental desires of human heart.
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Televison allows thousands of people to laugh at the same joke and still remain alone.
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Folly is perennial and yet the human race has survived.
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Moral indignation is one of the most harmful forces in the modern world, the more so as it can always be diverted to sinister uses by those who control propaganda.
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Americans need rest, but do not know it. I believe this to be a large part of the explanation of the crime wave in the United States.
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Clergymen almost necessarily fail in two ways as teachers of morals. They condemn acts which do no harm and they condone acts which do great harm.
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Those who in principle oppose birth control are either incapable of arithmetic or else in favour of war, pestilence and famine as permanent features of human life.
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