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Quote by Bertrand Russell
I've made an odd discovery. Every time I talk to a savant I feel q

I’ve made an odd discovery. Every time I talk to a savant I feel quite sure that happiness is no longer a possibility. Yet when I talk with my gardener, I’m convinced of the opposite. – Bertrand Russell

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Religion is something left over from the infancy of our intelligence, it will fade away as we adopt reason and science as our guidelines. – Bertrand Russell

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Intelligence
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Religions, which condemn the pleasures of sense, drive men to seek the pleasures of power. Throughout history power has been the vice of the ascetic. – Bertrand Russell

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History
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We are faced with the paradoxical fact that education has become one of the chief obstacles to intelligence and freedom of thought. – Bertrand Russell

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Education
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Civilization is hideously fragile… there’s not much between us and the Horrors underneath, just about a coat of varnish. – C.P. Snow

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I like it when a flower or a little tuft of grass grows through a crack in the concrete. It’s so… heroic. – George Carlin

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Civilization

All civilization has from time to time become a thin crust over a volcano of revolution. – Havelock Ellis

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The ultimate tendency of civilization is towards barbarism. – David Hare

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Taxes are like abortion, and not just because both are grotesque procedures supported by Democrats. Youre for them or against them. Taxes go up or down government raises taxes or lowers them. But Democrats will not let the words abortion or tax hikes pass their lips. – Ann Coulter

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Now what sort of man or woman or monster would stroke a centipede I have ever seen? And here is my good big centipede! If such a man exists, I say kill him without more ado. He is a traitor to the human race. – William S. Burroughs

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If A equals success, then the formula is: A = X + Y + Z, where X is work, Y is play, and Z is keep your mouth shut. – Albert Einstein

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When the tyrant has disposed of foreign enemies by conquest or treaty, and there is nothing more to fear from them, then he is always stirring up some war or other, in order that the people may require a leader. – Plato

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