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A million million years gives us some time to prepare for the end . . . let us make the best of it.
Bertrand Russell
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Bertrand Russell
Age: 97 †
Born: 1872
Born: May 18
Died: 1970
Died: February 2
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I believe that the abolition of private ownership of land and capital is a necessary step toward any world in which the nations are to live at peace with one another.
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Dora and I are now married, but just as happy as we were before.
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Science is what you know, philosophy is what you don't know.
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One's work is never so bad as it appears on bad days, nor so good as it appears on good days.
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The conception of the necessary unit of all that is resolves itself into the poverty of the imagination, and a freer logic emancipates us from the straitwaistcoated benevolent institution, which idealism palms off as the totality of being.
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From India to Spain, the brilliant civilization of Islam flourished. What was lost to christendom at this time was not lost to civilization, but quite the contrary.
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Not to be absolutely certain is, I think, one of the essential things in rationality.
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Of all forms of caution, caution in love is perhaps the most fatal to true happiness.
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Envy ... is one form of a vice, partly moral, partly intellectual, which consists in seeing things never in themselves but only in their relations.
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