Bertrand Russell Quotes

The tendency of our perceptions is to emphasise increasingly the objective elements in an impression, unless we have some special reason, as artists have, for doing the opposite.

Bertrand Russell

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• I'm a strong woman.

  

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• I think I would like to write screenplays, books, really anything.

  

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• I've seen a couple white girls coming to my concerts wearing head wraps, and I think they look so cute. It's kind of sad to see that people are really into separation, trying to separate everybody and making a clear division of 'us against you,' even with fashion. That sucks. It's not the way the world is supposed to be.

  

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• I'm a gay man who came out when I was 10 years old, and there's nothing in my life that I'm prouder of.

  

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• No parent would fail to call the doctor if their child developed a fever.

  

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• Sometimes there are customers who get in difficulty because of situations that are out of their control. These are customers with genuine needs, and the role of the bank is to accommodate these customers, and there is a real need to reschedule the loans of these customers.

  

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• Before the palefaces came among us, we enjoyed the happiness of unbounded freedom and were acquainted with neither riches, wants, nor oppression.

  

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• All philosophies, if you ride them home, are nonsense, but some are greater nonsense than others.

  

  Samuel Butler
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• I don't understand technology, and I'm very scared of it.

  

  Adam Driver
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• Children do not give up their innate imagination, curiosity, dreaminess easily. You have to love them to get them to do that.

  

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• I am responsible for me. I can kind of take care of what I need to do and should do what I like to do.

  

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• You hear certain things, negative things, all the time that aren't true, but you never hear about the positive.

  

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• You can always improve your fitness if you keep training.

  

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• Everybody will say that they're not opposed to immigration; they're opposed to illegal immigration. That's what I'm saying.

  

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• I have heard some stuff that might be influenced by my records, but it's usually pretty wacky and off-the-wall, which is kind of annoying, to be frank.

  

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• The trouble with retirement is that you never get a day off.

  

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• Pain is something that's common to human life. When we ignore it, we aren't engaging in the whole reality, and the pain begins to fester.

  

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• School was just kind of something where it was like, 'Um, I guess I should get my bachelor's.' My mind is always geared towards the practical.

  

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• Since the dawn of the Internet, I have always operated under the assumption that if the government or corporations have technological capability to do something, they are doing it - whatever the laws we happen to know about might say.

  

  Douglas Rushkoff
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• Some things will not bear much zeal; and the more earnest we are about them, the less we recommend ourselves to the approbation of sober and considerate men.

  

  John Tillotson
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• The rate of interest acts as a link between income-value and capital-value.

  

  Irving Fisher
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• Botox and other fillers make everybody look the same, with the big cheekbones where they fill you up. It's much cheaper to have a fringe - it takes years off everybody.

  

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• We tend to think of orphans as being the protagonist of stories we read when we're kids, and yet here you are: you're an adult, you're supposed to manage, you're supposed to get over it, you're supposed to go on with your life, and you feel like a lost child.

  

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• The tendency of our perceptions is to emphasise increasingly the objective elements in an impression, unless we have some special reason, as artists have, for doing the opposite.

  

  Bertrand Russell