All the labor of all the ages, all the devotion, all the inspiration, …

Bertrand Russell
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All the labor of all the ages, all the devotion, all the inspiration, all the noonday brightness of human genius are destined to extinction. So now, my friends, if that is true, and it is true, what is the point?
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