Most people would sooner die than think; in fact, they do so. ― Bertrand Russell

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To fear love is to fear life, and those who fear life are already 3-parts dead. ― Bertrand Russell

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

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Courage is found in unlikely places.

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I would never die for my beliefs because I might be wrong. ― Bertrand Russell

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There are two motives for reading a book; one, that you enjoy it; the other, that you can boast about it. ― Bertrand Russell

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Do not fear to be eccentric in opinion, for every opinion now accepted was once eccentric. ― Bertrand Russell

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I do not pretend to be able to prove that there is no God. I equally cannot prove that Satan is a fiction. The Christian god may exist; so may the gods of Olympus, or of ancient Egypt, or of Babylon. But no one of these hypotheses is more probable than any other: they lie outside the region of even probable knowledge, and therefore there is no reason to consider any of them.” ― Bertrand Russell

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The hardest thing to learn in life is which bridge to cross and which to burn. ― Bertrand Russell

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In the unlikely story that is America, there has never been anything false about hope. ― Barack Obama

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