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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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Bertrand Russell
Age: 97 †
Born: 1872
Born: May 18
Died: 1970
Died: February 2
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Hatred of enemies is easier and more intense than love of friends. But from men who are more anxious to injure opponents than to benefit the world at large no great good is to be expected.
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Moral progress has consisted in the main of protest against cruel customs, and of attempts to enlarge human sympathy.
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Only in thought is man a God in action and desire we are the slaves of circumstance.
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When Benjamin Franklin invented the lightning-rod, the clergy, both in England and America, with enthusiastic support of George III, condemned it as an impious attempt to defeat the will of God.
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Unless you assume a God, the question of life's purpose is meaningless.
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We may often do as we please - but we cannot please as we please.
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No one gossips about other people's secret virtues.
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Whenever one finds oneself inclined to bitterness, it is a sign of emotional failure.
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If you wish to be happy yourself, you must resign yourself to seeing others also happy.
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An individual human existence should be like a river
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In attempting to understand the elements out of which mental phenomena are compounded, it is of the greatest importance to remember that from the protozoa to man there is nowhere a very wide gap either in structure or in behaviour. From this fact it is a highly probable inference that there is also nowhere a very wide mental gap.
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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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Some people would rather die than think.
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As soon as we abandon our own reason, and are content to rely upon authority, there is no end to our trouble. . . . No Catholic, for instance, takes seriously the text which says that a Bishop should be the husband of one wife.
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A priori Logical propositions are such as can be known a priori without study of the actual world.
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Reason is a harmonising, controlling force rather than a creative one.
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Fervent religious believers sacrifice pleasures of the body, but instead enjoy pleasures of the mind, including the joy of knowing that those men who didn't follow their religion would be tortured for eternity.
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To like many people spontaneously and without effort is perhaps the greatest of all sources of personal happiness.
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Marriage is for women the commonest mode of livelihood, and the total amount of undesired sex endured by women is probably greater in marriage than in prostitution.
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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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