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Quote by Bertrand Russell
Man is a credulous animal, and must believe something in the absen

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

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Dogmatism and skepticism are both, in a sense, absolute philosophies one is certain of knowing, the other of not knowing. What philosophy should dissipate is certainty, whether of knowledge or ignorance. – Bertrand Russell

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Knowledge
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The place of the father in the modern suburban family is a very small one, particularly if he plays golf. – Bertrand Russell

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Admiration of the proletariat, like that of dams, power stations, and aeroplanes, is part of the ideology of the machine age. – Bertrand Russell

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The ultimate tragedy is not the oppression and cruelty by the bad people but the silence over that by the good people. – Martin Luther King, Jr.

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Truth is the beginning of every good to the gods, and of every good to man. – Plato

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I just want to say, good night, sweet prince, may flights of angels sing thee to thy rest. – Harry Dean Stanton

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Those who can win a war well can rarely make a good peace and those who could make a good peace would never have won the war. – Winston Churchill

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I am only one, but I am one. I cannot do everything, but I can do something. And I will not let what I cannot do interfere with what I can do. – Edward Everett Hale

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