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Religions, which condemn the pleasures of sense, drive men to seek the pleasures of power. Throughout history power has been the vice of the ascetic.

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Bertrand Russell

Bertrand Russell (1872 - 1970) was a British philosopher, mathematician and university lecturer. He won the Nobel Prize for Literature.

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