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• Man is a credulous animal, and must believe something
  in the absence of good grounds for belief, he will be satisfied with bad ones....
• Fear is the main source of superstition, and one of the main sources of cruelty.
  To conquer fear is the beginning of wisdom, in the pursuit of truth as in the endeavour after a worthy manner of life....
• The whole problem with the world is that fools and fanatics are always so certain of themselves, but wiser people so full of doubts.
  -- Bertrand Russell...
• Sin is geographical. -- Bertrand Russell (1872-1970)
• Mankind has become so much one family that we cannot insure our own prosperity except by insuring that of everyone else.
  If you wish to be happy yourself, you must also resign yourself to seeing others also happy....
• The fact that an opinion has been widely held is no evidence whatever that it is not utterly absurd
  indeed in view of the silliness of the majority of mankind, a widespread belief is more likely to be foolish than sensible....
• The fact that an opinion has been widely held is no evidence that it is not utterly absurd
  indeed, in view of the silliness of the majority of mankind, a widespread belief is more often likely to be foolish than sensible....
• It matters little what you believe, so long as you don't altogether believe it.
  -- Bertrand Russell...
• So far as I can remember, there is not one word in the Gospels in praise of intelligence.
  -- Bertrand Russell...