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• Most people would sooner die than think; in fact they do so. RUSSELL
• Although it is a gloomy view to suppose that life will die out, sometimes when I contemplate the things that people do with their lives I think it is almost a consolation.
  -- Bertrand Russell...
• Life is nothing but a competition to be the criminal rather than the victim. -- Bertrand Russell
• I would never die for my beliefs because I might be wrong. -- Bertrand Russell
• Better Red than dead. -- Bertrand Russell (1872-1967)
• Kill files are an expression of resentment by the unmemorable or untalented against the memorable and talented.
  Your appearance in kill files merely marks the fact that you have more than once tried to make people think, when they really would rather not....
• People would rather watch things than eat.
• Patience is a most necessary quality for business; many a man would rather you heard his story than grant his request.
  -- Lord Chesterfield...
• 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....