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• There is much pleasure to be gained in useless knowledge. -- Bertrand Russell
• Much that passes as idealism is disguised hatred or disguised love for power.
  -- Bertrand Russell (1872-1967)...
• Three passions, simple but overwhelmingly strong, have governed my life
  the longing for love, the search for knowledge, and unbearable pity for the suffering of mankind....
• To love is wise; to hate is foolish. -- Bertrand Russell
• What men really want is not knowledge but certainty. -- Bertrand Russell
• Power is sweet; it is a drug, the desire for which increases with a habit.
  -- Bertrand Russell (1872-1967)...
• Men who allow their love of power to give them a distorted view of the world are to be found in every asylum
  one man will think he is the governer of the Bank of England, another will think he is the king, and yet another will think he is God....
• The reformative effect of punishment is a belief that dies hard, chiefly I think, because it is so satisfying to our sadistic impulses.
  -- Bertrand Russell (1872-1967)...
• The degree of one's emotion varies inversely with one's knowledge of the facts -the less you know the hotter you get.
  -- Bertrand Russell...