To be without some of the things you want is an indispensable part of happiness.
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I've made an odd discovery. Every time I talk to a savant I feel quite sure that happiness is no longer a possibility. Yet when I talk with my gardener, I'm convinced of the opposite.
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Bertrand Russell (182)
Birth: | 18th May, 1872 |
Death: | 2nd February, 1970 |
Nationality: | British |
Profession: | Historian, Mathematician, Philosopher |
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Bertrand Russell was a British philosopher, logician, mathematician, historian, social critic and political activist. At various points in his life he considered himself a liberal, a socialist, and a pacifist, but he also admitted that he had never been any of these in any profound sense. He was born in Monmouthshire, into one of the most prominent aristocratic families in Britain.
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