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“This has been my life. I have found it worth living, and would gladly live it again if the second chance were offered me.”

Bertrand Russell

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If the State does not acquire supremacy over [vast private] enterprises, it becomes their puppet, and they become the real State.

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Of all evils of war the greatest is the purely spiritual evil: the hatred, the injustice, the repudiation of truth, the artificial conflict.

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I cannot escape from the conclusion that the great ages of progress have depended upon a small number of individuals of transcendent ability.

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