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Dora and I are now married, but just as happy as we were before.
Bertrand Russell
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Bertrand Russell
Age: 97 †
Born: 1872
Born: May 18
Died: 1970
Died: February 2
Analytic Philosopher
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Bertrand Arthur William Russell
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Bertrand Arthur William Russell
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If we spent half an hour every day in silent immobility, I am convinced that we should conduct all our affairs, personal, national, and international, far more sanely than we do at present.
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One must care about a world one will not see.
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A fanatical belief in democracy makes democratic institutions impossible.
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If a Black Death could be spread throughout the world once in every generation survivors could procreate freely without making the world too full.
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There may be no good reasons for very many opinions that are held with passion.
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Intelligence, it might be said, has caused our troubles but it is not unintelligence that will cure them. Only more and wiser intelligence can make a happier world
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Our individual life is brief, and perhaps the whole life of mankind will be brief if measured in astronomical scale
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The three main extra-rational activities in modern life are religion, war, and love. all these are extra-rational, but love is not anti-rational, that is to say, a reasonable man may reasonably rejoice in its existence
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Real life is, to most men, a long second best, a perpetual compromise between the ideal and the possible.
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Be isolated, be ignored, be attacked, be in doubt, be frightened, but do not be silenced.
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To acquire immunity to eloquence is of the utmost importance to the citizens of a democracy.
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How about Pithecanthropus Erectus? Was it really he who ate the apple? Or was it Homo Pekiniensis?
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We know too much and feel too little.
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A great many worries can be diminished by realizing the unimportance of the matter which is causing anxiety.
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It is not my prayer and humility that you cause things to go as you wish, but by acquiring a knowledge of natural laws.
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