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Common sense, however it tries, cannot avoid being surprised from time to time. – Bertrand Russell

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If all our happiness is bound up entirely in our personal circumstances it is difficult not to demand of life more than it has to give. – Bertrand Russell

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The point of philosophy is to start with something so simple as not to seem worth stating, and to end with something so paradoxical that no one will believe it. – Bertrand Russell

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I cannot tell by what logic we call a toad, a bear, or an elephant ugly; they being created in those outward shapes and figures which best express the actions of their inward forms. – Sir Thomas Browne

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The much vaunted male logic isnt logical, because they display prejudices — against half the human race — that are considered prejudices according to any dictionary definition. – Eva Figes

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