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Quote by Bertrand Russell
Neither a man nor a crowd nor a nation can be trusted to act human

Neither a man nor a crowd nor a nation can be trusted to act humanely or to think sanely under the influence of a great fear. – Bertrand Russell

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A sense of duty is useful in work but offensive in personal relations. People wish to be liked, not to be endured with patient resignation. – Bertrand Russell

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Those who in principle oppose birth control are either incapable of arithmetic or else in favor of war, pestilence and famine as permanent features of human life. – Bertrand Russell

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If the markets had behaved badly, that would obviously add to peoples sense of alarm… but there has been a lot of reassurance coming, particularly in the way the Brits handled all this. There seems to be no great fear that something like that is going to happen here. – Brit Hume

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That fear may reach all, punish but few. – Proverb

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Fear rules almost every newsroom in the country. – Dan Rather

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Worry is a cycle of inefficient thoughts whirling around a center of fear. – Corrie Ten Boom

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