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Through the greatness of the universe, which philosophy contemplates, the mind also is rendered great, and becomes capable of that union with the universe which constitutes its highest good.
Bertrand Russell
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Bertrand Russell
Age: 97 †
Born: 1872
Born: May 18
Died: 1970
Died: February 2
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When a man tells you that he knows the exact truth about anything you are safe in inferring that he is an inexact man.
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Anything you're good at contributes to happiness.
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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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Folly is perennial and yet the human race has survived.
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The most essential characteristic of scientific technique is that it proceeds from experiment, not from tradition.
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