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We've lost a magnificent weather opening. I hope the dream will come true in the next weeks.


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BERTRAND RUSSELL The fact that an opinion has been widely held is no evidence whatever that it is not utterly absurd;...
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