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A man of Seville is shaved by the Barber of Seville if and only if the man does not shave himself. Does the barber shave himself?

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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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For some reason which I have failed to understand, many people like the system [scientific totalitarianism] when it is Russian but disliked the very same system when it was German. I am compelled to think that this is due to the power of labels these people like whatever is labelled ‘Left’ without examining whether the label has any justification.
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The taboo against nakedness is an obstacle to a decent attitude on the subject of sex.
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