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Bertrand Russell: "I Owe My Life To Smoking"

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  1. pstlpkr

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    [+] Embed the video | Video DownloadGet the Flash Videos

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    I think I posted that a while back...such a classic quote from a BRILLIANT man.

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    That's a great video. I included it in Fred Brown's piece:

    Bertrand Russell: Thinker, Mathematician, Philosopher, Prophet - Pipe Smoker

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    Oh yeah, it's been around for a long time.
    Came across it again yesterday, thought I'd post it up.

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    His work on the informal fallacy of induction, following Hume, is good even if it contradicts his atheism. It is often sited by Presuppositionalists.

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    A tattoo on a beautiful woman is like graffiti on a Ferrari.
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    Thought in the early morning, solace in time of woes,
    Peace in the hush of the twilight, balm ere my eyelids close
    Rudyard Kipling
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    I just happened to read about this yesterday in Rick Newcomb's book, In Search of Pipe Dreams.

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