The root of the matterâ€¦ the thing I meanâ€¦ is love, Christian love, or compassion. If you feel this, you have a motive for existence, a guide for action, a reason for courage, an imperative necessity for intellectual honesty.

Bertrand Russell

Bertrand Russell

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