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I do wish i believed in the life eternal, for it makes me quite miserable to think man is merely a kind of machine endowed, unhappily for himself, with consciousness.
-Bertrand Russell
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I Do Wish I Believed In The

Bertrand Russell
I do wish i believed in the life eternal, for it makes me quite miserable to think man is merely a kind of machine endowed, unhappily for himself, with consciousness.
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