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“ The reformative effect of punishment is a belief that dies hard chiefly I think because it is so satisfying to our sadistic impulses. ”

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War does not determine who is right - only who is left.

~ Bertrand Russell

Of all forms of caution, caution in love is perhaps the most fatal to true happiness.

~ Bertrand Russell

To fear love is to fear life, and those who fear life are already 3-parts dead.

~ Bertrand Russell

Those who have never known the deep intimacy and the intense companionship of happy mutual love have missed the best thing that life has to give.

~ Bertrand Russell