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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.
Bertrand Russell
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Bertrand Russell
Age: 97 †
Born: 1872
Born: May 18
Died: 1970
Died: February 2
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This idea of weapons of mass extermination is utterly horrible and is something which no one with one spark of humanity can tolerate.
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Extreme hopes are born of extreme misery, and in such a world hopes could only be irrational.
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God and Satan alike are essentially human figures, the one a projection of ourselves, the other of our enemies.
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