The professors must not prevent us from realizing that history is fun, and that the most bizarre things really happen
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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
Every philosophical problem, when it is subjected to the necessary analysis and justification, is found either to be not really philosophical at all, or else to be, in the sense in which we are using the word, logical.
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Without civic morality communities perish without personal morality their survival has no value.
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Democracy is the process by which people choose the man who'll get the blame.
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Indemnity for the past and security for the future.
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Men who allow their love of power to give them a distorted view of the world are to be found in every asylum one man will think that he is the Governor of the Bank of England, another will think he is the King, and yet another will think he is God.
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