The good life is one inspired by love and guided by knowledge.

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The good life is one inspired by love and guided by knowledge.

-- Bertrand Russell

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The fact that an opinion has been widely held is no evidence whatever that it is not utterly absurd.

-- Bertrand Russell

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In all things, it is a good idea to hang a question mark now and then on the things we have taken for granted. –

-- Bertrand Russell

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The fact that an opinion has been widely held is no evidence that it is not utterly absurd.

-- 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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