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No rules, however wise, are a substitute for affection and tact.
Bertrand Russell
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Bertrand Russell
Age: 97 †
Born: 1872
Born: May 18
Died: 1970
Died: February 2
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Of all forms of caution, caution in love is perhaps the most fatal to true happiness.
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One must care about a world one will not see.
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Berkeley retains the merit of having shown that the existence of matter is capable of being denied without absurdity.
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If a law were passed giving six months to every writer of a first book, only the good ones would do it.
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A life which goes excessively against natural impulse is... likely to involve effects of strain that may be quite as bad as indulgence in forbidden impulses would have been. People who live a life which is unnatural beyond a point are likely to be filled with envy, malice and uncharitableness.
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Suppose atomic bombs had reduced the population of the world to one brother and sister should they let the human race die out?
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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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Broadly speaking, we are in the middle of a race between human skill as a means and human folly as an end.
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One eminently orthodox Catholic divine laid it down that a confessor may fondle a nun's breasts, provided he does it without evil intent.
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In America everybody is of the opinion that he has no social superiors, since all men are equal, but he does not admit that he has no social inferiors, for, from the time of Jefferson onward, the doctrine that all men are equal applies only upwards, not downwards.
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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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What will be the good of the conquest of leisure and health, if no one remembers how to use them?
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The greatest challenge to any thinker is stating the problem in a way that will allow a solution.
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I used, when I was younger, to take my holidays walking. I would cover 25 miles a day, and when the evening came I had no need of anything to keep me from boredom, since the delight of sitting amply sufficed.
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Children, after being limbs of Satan in traditional theology and mystically illuminated angels in the minds of educational reformers, have reverted to being little devils not theological demons inspired by the evil one, but scientific Freudian abominations inspired by the unconscious.
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The man who has fed the chicken every day throughout its life at last wrings its neck instead, showing that more refined views as to the uniformity of nature would have been useful to the chicken.
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Moral progress has consisted in the main of protest against cruel customs, and of attempts to enlarge human sympathy.
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The happiness that is genuinely satisfying is accompanied by the fullest exercise of our faculties and the fullest realization of the world in which we live.
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