| The trouble with the world is that the stupid are cocksure and the intelligent are full of doubt. |
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- Bertrand Russell |
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| The total amount of undesired sex endured by women is probably greater in marriage than in prostitution. |
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- Bertrand Russell |
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| If one man offers you democracy and another offers you a bag of grain, at what stage of starvation will you prefer the grain to the vote? |
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- Bertrand Russell |
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| Sin is geographical. |
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- Bertrand Russell |
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| Patriots always talk of dying for their country and never of killing for their country. |
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- Bertrand Russell |
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| War does not determine who is right - only who is left. |
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- Bertrand Russell |
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| Even if the open windows of science at first make us shiver after the cozy indoor warmth of traditional humanizing myths, in the end the fresh air brings vigor, and the great spaces have a splendor of their own. |
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- Bertrand Russell |
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| I am compelled to fear that science will be used to promote the power of dominant groups rather than to make men happy. |
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- Bertrand Russell |
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| Science may set limits to knowledge, but should not set limits to imagination. |
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- Bertrand Russell |
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| In all affairs it's a healthy thing now and then to hang a question mark on the things you have long taken for granted. |
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- Bertrand Russell |
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| I've made an odd discovery. Every time I talk to a savant I feel quite sure that happiness is no longer a possibility. Yet when I talk with my gardener, I'm convinced of the opposite. |
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- Bertrand Russell |
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| The best practical advice I can give to the present generation is to practice the virtue which the Christians call love. |
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- Bertrand Russell |
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| Obscenity is whatever happens to shock some elderly and ignorant magistrate. |
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- Bertrand Russell |
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| Patriotism is the willingness to kill and be killed for trivial reasons. |
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- Bertrand Russell |
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| Drunkenness is temporary suicide. |
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- Bertrand Russell |
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| To be without some of the things you want is an indispensable part of happiness. |
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- Bertrand Russell |
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| If there were in the world today any large number of people who desired their own happiness more than they desired the unhappiness of others, we could have paradise in a few years. |
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- Bertrand Russell |
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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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- Bertrand Russell |
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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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- Bertrand Russell |
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| No man treats a motor car as foolishly as he treats another human being. When the car will not go, he does not attribute its annoying behavior to sin, he does not say, "You are a wicked motorcar, and I shall not give you any more petrol until you go." He attempts to find out what is wrong and set it right. |
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- Bertrand Russell |
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