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• Real life is, to most men, a long second-best, a perpetual compromise between the ideal and the possible
  but the world of pure reason knows no compromise, no practical limitations, no barrier to the creative activity....
• The trouble with the world is that the stupid are cocksure and the intelligent are full of doubt.
  -- Bertrand Russell...
• Where in the world does the guy who has everything put it.
• This is patently absurd; but whoever wishes to become a philosopher must learn not to be frightened by absurdities.
  -- Bertrand Russell...
• The Christian religion has been and still is the principal enemy of moral progress in the world.
  -- Bertrand Russell...
• 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...
• Quote #145 "The trouble with the world is that the stupid are cocksure and the intelligent are full of doubt.
  -- Bertrand Russell...
• Sin is geographical. -- Bertrand Russell (1872-1970)
• Man is a credulous animal, and must believe something
  in the absence of good grounds for belief, he will be satisfied with bad ones....