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The purpose of education is to teach a defense against eloquence.

Bertrand Russell

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Bertrand Russell
Age: 97 †
Born: 1872
Born: May 18
Died: 1970
Died: February 2
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Science is what we know, and philosophy is what we don't know.
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Cruel men believe in a cruel god and use their belief to excuse their cruelty. Only kindly men believe in a kindly god, and they would be kindly in any case.
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The method of postulating what we want has many advantages they are the same as the advantages of theft over honest toil.
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