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Obscenity is whatever happens to shock some elderly and ignorant magistrate. ↗

— Bertrand Russell

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The coward wretch whose hand and heart Can bear to torture aught below, Is ever first to quail and start From the slightest pain or equal foe. ↗

— Bertrand Russell

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The fundamental defect of fathers, in our competitive society, is that they want their children to be a credit to them. ↗

— Bertrand Russell

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The most savage controversies are about matters as to which there is no good evidence either way. ↗

— Bertrand Russell

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The slave is doomed to worship time and fate and death, because they are greater than anything he finds in himself, and because all his thoughts are of things which they devour. ↗

— Bertrand Russell

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To understand a name you must be acquainted with the particular of which it is a name. ↗

— Bertrand Russell

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Any relations in a social order will endure, if there is infused into them some of that spirit of human sympathy which qualifies life for immortality. ↗

— George William Russell

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With the introduction of agriculture mankind entered upon a long period of meanness, misery, and madness, from which they are only now being freed by the beneficent operation of the machine. ↗

— Bertrand Russell

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This monument is going to be built as a symbol. ↗

— Bill Russell

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The name 'reservation' has a negative connotation among Native Americans - an intern camp of sorts. ↗

— John Russell

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