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The taboo against nakedness is an obstacle to a decent attitude on the subject of sex.
Bertrand Russell
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Bertrand Russell
Age: 97 †
Born: 1872
Born: May 18
Died: 1970
Died: February 2
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Be scrupulously truthful, even if the truth is inconvenient, for it is more inconvenient when you try to conceal it.
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If we were all given by magic the power to read each other's thoughts, I suppose the first effect would be to dissolve all friendships.
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There is no nonsense so errant that it cannot be made the creed of the vast majority by adequate governmental action.
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I do not pretend to start with precise questions. I do not think you can start with anything precise. You have to achieve such precision as you can, as you go along.
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It's not what you have lost, but what you have left that counts.
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War grows out of ordinary human nature.
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Although this may seem a paradox, all exact science is based on the idea of approximation. If a man tells you he knows a thing exactly, then you can be safe in inferring that you are speaking to an inexact man.
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Cynicism such as one finds very frequently among the most highly educated young men and women of the West, results from the combination of comfort and powerlessness.
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Those who in principle oppose birth control are either incapable of arithmetic or else in favour of war, pestilence and famine as permanent features of human life.
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Curious learning not only makes unpleasant things less unpleasant but also makes pleasant things more pleasant.
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Be isolated, be ignored, be attacked, be in doubt, be frightened, but do not be silenced.
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