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• What men really want is not knowledge but certainty. -- Bertrand Russell
• Mathematics, rightly viewed, possesses not only truth but supreme beauty -- a beauty cold and austere
  like that of a sculpture, without appeal to any part of our weaker nature, without the gorgeous trapping of painting or music, yet sublimely pure, and capable of a stern perfection such as only the greatest art can show....
• The Clinton Administration: Taxation without hesitation.
• If fifty million people say a foolish thing, it's still a foolish thing. -- Bertrand Russell
• If fifty million people say a foolish thing, it is still a foolish thing. -- Bertrand Russell
• I have gained this by philosophy: that I do without being commanded what others do only from fear of the law.
  -- Aristotle...
• 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....
• Man can live without air for seconds, without water for days, without food for weeks, and without ideas for years.
• If you can't live without me, why aren't you dead yet?