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Bertrand Russell Quotes: Power, like vanity, is insatiable. Nothing short of omnipotence could satisfy it completely.
         

Power, like vanity, is insatiable. Nothing short of omnipotence could satisfy it completely.


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If there were in the world today any large number of people who desired their own happiness more than they desired the unhappiness of others, we could have a paradise in a few years.

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We have in fact, two kinds of morality, side by side: one which we preach, but do not practice, and another which we practice, but seldom preach.

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



Cruel men believe in a cruel god and use their belief to excuse their cruelty. Only kindly men believe in a kindly god, and they would be kindly in any case.

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