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...the curious Dutch classification gedogen, which means 'technically illegal but officially tolerated.


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BERTRAND RUSSELL Drunkenness is temporary suicide.
BERTRAND RUSSELL A wife encourages her husband's egoism in order to encourage her own.
RUSSELL GREEN Happiness is a small and unworthy goal for something as big and fancy as a whole lifetime, and shoul...
RUSSELL BAKER Life is always walking up to us and saying, 'Come on in, the living's fine,' and what do we do? Back...
RUSSELL BAKER The art of acceptance is the art of making someone who has just done you a small favor wish that he ...
RUSSELL LYNES Why should I allow that same God to tell me how to raise my kids, who had to drown His own?
BERTRAND RUSSELL The most savage controversies are those about matters as to which there is no good evidence either w...
BERTRAND RUSSELL If all our happiness is bound up entirely in our personal circumstances it is difficult not to deman...
BERTRAND RUSSELL Sometimes I pause and sadly think of all the things that might have been. Of all the golden chances ...
G.J. RUSSELL What men want is not knowledge, but certainty.
BERTRAND RUSSELL Unless one is taught what to do with success after getting it, achievement of it must inevitably lea...
BERTRAND RUSSELL Boredom is a vital problem for the moralist, since at least half the sins of mankind are caused by t...
BERTRAND RUSSELL Concentration and mental toughness are the margins of victory.
BILL RUSSELL