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The world is full of magical things patiently waiting for our wits to grow sharper.

-- Bertrand Russell

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The world is full of magical things patiently waiting for our wits to grow sharper. –

-- Bertrand Russell

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Do not fear to be eccentric in opinion, for every opinion now accepted was once eccentric. –

-- Bertrand Russell

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In the Second World War he took no public part, having escaped to a neutral country just before its outbreak. In private conversation he was wont to say that homicidal lunatics were well employed in killing each other, but that sensible men would keep out of their way while they were doing it. Fortunately this outlook, which is reminiscent of Bentham, has become rare in this age, which recognizes that heroism has a value independent of its utility. The Last Survivor of a Dead Epoch

-- Bertrand Russell

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Love is something far more than desire for sexual intercourse; it is the principal means of escape from the loneliness which afflicts most men and women throughout the greater part of their lives.

-- Bertrand Russell

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Government can easily exist without laws, but law cannot exist without government.

-- Bertrand Russell

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