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Each experience has taught us something, and each disappointment has only served to reinforce our determination, ... We have always endeavored to improve our performance.


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BERTRAND RUSSELL Science is what you know, philosophy is what you don't know.
BERTRAND RUSSELL An educator should think of a child as a garderner thinks of a plant, as something to be made to gro...
BERTRAND RUSSELL The secret of happiness is to face the fact that the world is horrible, horrible, horrible.
BERTRAND RUSSELL Machines are worshipped because they are beautiful, and valued because they confer power; they are ...
BERTRAND RUSSELL Law in origin was merely a codification of the power of dominant groups, and did not aim at anything...
BERTRAND RUSSELL To expect a personality to survive the disintegration of the brain is like expecting a cricket club ...
BERTRAND RUSSELL We are all prone to the malady of the introvert who, with the manifold spectacle of the world spread...
BERTRAND RUSSELL A hallucination is a fact, not an error; what is erroneous is a judgment based upon it.
BERTRAND RUSSELL Man needs, for his happiness, not only the enjoyment of this or that, but hope and enterprise and ...
BERTRAND RUSSELL To fear love is to fear life, and those who fear life are already three parts dead.
BERTRAND RUSSELL It is only the dead who do not return.
BERTRAND BARERE A sense of duty is useful in work, but offensive in personal relations. People wish to be liked, not...
BERTRAND RUSSELL We have, in fact, two kinds of morality side by side: one which we preach but do not practice, and a...
BERTRAND RUSSELL There is much pleasure to be gained from useless knowledge.
BERTRAND RUSSELL [T]he infliction of cruelty with a good conscience is a delight to moralists. That is why they inven...
BERTRAND RUSSELL Love can flourish only as long as it is free and spontaneous; it tends to be killed by the thought o...
BERTRAND RUSSELL So far as I can remember, there is not one word in the Gospels in praise of intelligence.
BERTRAND RUSSELL There is no nonsense so arrant that it cannot be made the creed of the vast majority by adequate gov...
BERTRAND RUSSELL The place of the father in the modern suburban family is a very small one, particularly if he plays ...
BERTRAND RUSSELL Passive acceptance of the teacher's wisdom is easy to most boys and girls. It involves no effort of ...
BERTRAND RUSSELL Science may set limits to knowledge, but should not set limits to imagination.
BERTRAND RUSSELL This is patently absurd; but whoever wishes to become a philosopher must learn not to be frightened ...
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