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Americans need rest, but do not know it.

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Bertrand Russell
Age: 97 †
Born: 1872
Born: May 18
Died: 1970
Died: February 2
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Aristotle could have avoided the mistake of thinking that women have fewer teeth than men, by the simple device of asking Mrs. Aristotle to keep her mouth open while he counted.
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Look at me. Look at me is one of the fundamental desires of human heart.
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The coward wretch whose hand and heart Can bear to torture aught below, Is ever first to quail and start From the slightest pain or equal foe.
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To discover a system for the avoidance of war is a vital need of our civilisation.
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It is obviously possible that what we call waking life may only be an unusual and persistent nightmare.
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Bad philosophers may have a certain influence good philosophers, never.
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It's not what you have lost, but what you have left that counts.
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Mathematics takes us into the region of absolute necessity, to which not only the actual word, but every possible word, must conform.
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I feel as if one would only discover on one's death bed what one ought to have lived for
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It will be found, as men grow more tolerant in their instincts, that many uniformities now insisted upon are useless and even harmful.
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The man who suffers from a sense of sin is suffering from a particular kind of self-love. In all this vast universe the thing that appears to him of most importance is that he himself should be virtuous. It is a grave defect in certain forms of traditional religion that they have encouraged this particular kind of self-absorption.
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A hallucination is a fact, not an error what is erroneous is a judgment based upon it.
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The key to happiness is accepting one unpleasant reality every day.
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All serious innovation is only rendered possible by some accident enabling unpopular persons to survive.
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The Eugenic Society . . . is perpetually bewailing the fact that wage-earners breed faster than middle-class people.
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To think I have spent my life on absolute muck.
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Cruelty is, in theory, a perfectly adequate ground for divorce, but it may be interpreted so as to become absurd.
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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.
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The sentiments of an adult are compounded of a kernel of instinct surrounded by a vast husk of education.
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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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