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Bertrand Russell

"What men want is not knowledge but certainty."

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"What men want is not knowledge but certainty."

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"By the 1960s the United States had a new ruling class-the teenager!"

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"A great problem in America is that we have an anemic and watered-down Christianity that has produced an anemic, watered-down, and spineless Christian who is not willing to stand up and be counted on every issue."

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"The whole world ought to know the story of the Bible."

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"The central theme of the Bible is salvation, and the central personality of the Bible is Christ."

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"I do not believe in a fate that falls on men however they act but I do believe in a fate that falls on men unless they act."

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"In adolescence, I hated life and was continually on the verge of suicide, from which, however, I was restrained by the desire to know more mathematics."
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"You all know the argument from design: everything in the world is made just so that we can manage to live in the world, and if the world was ever so little different, we could not manage to live in it. That is the argument from design. It sometimes takes a rather curious form; for instance, it is argued that rabbits have white tails in order to be easy to shoot. I do not know how rabbits would view that application."
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"The more we realize our minuteness and our impotence in the face of cosmic forces the more astonishing becomes what human beings have achieved."
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"Never let yourself be diverted, either by what you wish to believe, or what you think could have beneficent social effects if it were believed; but look only and solely at what are the facts."
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"Both in thought and in feeling, even though time be real, to realise the unimportance of time is the gate of wisdom."
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"A great many worries can be diminished by realizing the unimportance of the matter which is causing anxiety."
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"The objection to propaganda is not only its appeal to unreason, but still more the unfair advantage which it gives to the rich and powerful."
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"It has been said that man is a rational animal. All my life I have been searching for evidence which could support this."
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"A process which led from the amoeba to man appeared to the philosophers to be obviously a progress though whether the amoeba would agree with this opinion is not known."
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