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By self-interest, Man has become gregarious, but in instinct he has remained to a great extent solitary; hence the need of religion and morality to reinforce self-interest.

Bertrand Russell

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Bertrand Russell

Logician, one of the first analytic philosophers and political activist

May 18th, 1872 - February 2nd, 1970

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