It is for this reason that rationality is of supreme importance to the…

Bertrand Russell
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It is for this reason that rationality is of supreme importance to the well-being of the human species...even more, in those less fortunate times in which it is despised and rejected as the vain dream of men who lack the virility to kill where they cannot agree.
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