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The wise use of leisure, it must be conceded, is a product of civilization and education.
Bertrand Russell
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Bertrand Russell
Age: 97 †
Born: 1872
Born: May 18
Died: 1970
Died: February 2
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Affection cannot be created it can only be liberated.
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A world without delight and without affection is a world destitute of value.
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It is because modern education is so seldom inspired by a great hope that it so seldom achieves great results. The wish to preserve the past rather that the hope of creatingfuture dominates the minds of those who control the teaching of the young.
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Punctuality is a quality the need of which is bound up with social co-operation. It has nothing to do with the relation of the soul to God, or with mystic insight, or with any of the matters with which the more elevated and spiritual moralists are concerned.
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A marriage is likely to be called happy if neither party ever expected to get much happiness out of it.
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To be able to fill leisure intelligently is the last product of civilization, and at present very few people have reached this level.
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