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Religions, which condemn the pleasures of sense, drive men to seek

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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To teach how to live without certainty and yet without being paralysed by hesitation is perhaps the chief thing that philosophy, in our age, can do for those who study it. – Bertrand Russell

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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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OUR history begins before we are born. We represent the hereditary influences of our race, and our ancestors virtually live in us. – James Nasmyth

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History is indeed little more than the register of the crimes, follies, and misfortunes of mankind. – Edward Gibbon

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If a race has no history, if it has no worthwhile tradition, it becomes a negligible factor in the thought of the world, and it stands in danger of being exterminated. – Carter G. Woodson

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History is full of people who went to prison or were burned at the stake for proclaiming their ideas. Society has always defended itself. – Naguib Mahfouz

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A good holiday is one spent among people whose notions of time are vaguer than yours. – John B. Priestly

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You shall not steal, nor deal falsely, nor lie to one another. Leviticus 19:11 – Bible

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A single conversation across the table with a wise man is worth a months study of books. – Chinese Proverb

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We do not take humor seriously enough. – Konrad Lorenz

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