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“The fundamental defect of fathers, in our competitive society, is that they want their children to be a credit to them.”

Bertrand Russell · Dad

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Bertrand Russell

I would never die for my beliefs because I might be wrong.

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Bertrand Russell

Man is a credulous animal, and must believe something in the absence of good grounds for belief, he will be satisfied with bad ones.

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Bertrand Russell

I believe in using words, not fists. I believe in my outrage knowing people are living in boxes on the street. I believe in honesty. I believe in a good time. I believe in good food. I believe in sex.

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Bertrand Russell

Freedom comes only to those who no longer ask of life that it shall yield them any of those personal goods that are subject to the mutations of time.

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