Bertrand Russell Quotes
Nine-tenths of the activities of a modern Government are harmful; therefore the worse they are performed, the better.
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I am a big Pink Floyd fan. That is where a lot of the concept lyrics come from.
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A confident woman is a sexy woman, in my opinion. And I think guys find that to be the same way.
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We do not believe in immortality because we can prove it, but we try to prove it because we cannot help believing it.
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I think the ideology of the Congress is closest to mine. Congress is a party where I should be. I have joined politics to bring change in society. The Congress gave me a chance with the Aadhaar project. It's a party that will allow me to bring change.
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Granny beads are what they're called when a grandma works the garden all day - you always see them - they have a handkerchief around their neck with a lot of dust on them, and then the sweat will go down and make these black beads of sweat and dirt around their neck. And that's what they call granny beads.
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Good-quality nuts, toasted in a little butter and salt, make a magical addition to many salads.
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I was around computers from birth; we had one of the first Macs, which came out shortly before I was born, and my dad ran a company that wrote computer operating systems. I don't think I have any particular technical skills; I just got a really large head start.
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Because it started as an offshoot of al Qaeda in Iraq, ISIL has long been subject to U.N. sanctions, and all countries have a legal obligation to freeze its assets and prohibit its business dealings. But countries around the world need to do more to make these sanctions work.
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People always ask why I stay in the online space versus going to TV or film, like most people would do, and the answer is that there's opportunity for innovation online - not only innovation in storytelling, but also innovation in how you interact with your audience and that is very fulfilling to me personally.
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It can be safely asserted that since early Colonial times, the North has had a distinct race problem. Every one of these States had slaves, and at the beginning of Washington's Administration, there were 40,000 black slaves and 17,000 black freemen in this section.
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My ideal man is faithful, honest, and a gentleman who knows how to treat women.
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I have bizarre anxiety about being in a city - I have no idea who I am or where I am.
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Of all the ways of acquiring books, writing them oneself is regarded as the most praiseworthy method. Writers are really people who write books not because they are poor, but because they are dissatisfied with the books which they could buy but do not like.
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Grant what thou commandest and then command what thou wilt.
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Remember, my dear Evelina, nothing is so delicate as the reputation of a woman; it is at once the most beautiful and most brittle of all human things.
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You can have Whatever You LikeStacks on deck, patron on icecan pop bottles all nightAnd baby you can have Whatever You LikeSaid you can have Whatever You Like, yeahh
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3: Syntactic sugar causes cancer of the semi-colons.
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I know that instructional time is a zero-sum game, but if we want kids to do well academically, it's hard to imagine that happening if they don't have some control over their attention.
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I was attorney general; my name is Meese. I say, go to college. Don't carry a piece.
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It is a weird thing that actors have people applaud when they're done working. I still find that entertaining.
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A funeral is not death, any more than baptism is birth or marriage union. All three are the clumsy devices, coming now too late, now too early, by which Society would register the quick motions of man.
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We don't have a clue what it is to be male or female, or if there are intermediate genders. Male and female might be fields which overlap into androgyny or different kinds of sexual desires. But because we live in a Western, patriarchal world, we have very little chance of exploring these gender possibilities.
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Nine-tenths of the activities of a modern Government are harmful; therefore the worse they are performed, the better.
