Bertrand Russell Quotes

New truth is often uncomfortable, especially to the holders of power; nevertheless, amid the long record of cruelty and bigotry, it is the most important achievement of our intelligent but wayward species. ''

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• I have just begun a work in which an important part is given to a large chorus and with it I want to use several of your instruments - augmenting their range as in those I used for my Equatorial - especially in the high range.

  

  Edgard Varese
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  • High

• I believe the old boys' network is a powerful one. No one gives up power and privilege willingly, do they?

  

  Quentin Bryce
  • Up
  • Believe
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• It's important that people come see our show, because we are performers. We wanted people to see that.

  

  Zac Brown Band
  • People
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• I'm very close with my higher power. I have a very strong connection with it.

  

  Fergie The Black Eyed Peas
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• Ambition is the immoderate desire for power.

  

  Baruch Spinoza
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• It takes me a long time to write, and I trust myself, so I write very sparsely, so when I do, I know it's good, you know what I mean? Rather than writing a whole bunch and having to sort out what's good and what's not.

  

  Thebe Neruda Kgositsile
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• I feel like I know so little, and I just hope I get to live so long. I came to puberty late; it's all been late.

  

  Mandy Patinkin
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• Yes, I believe the will is very important. It's how I have succeeded in life.

  

  G. Gordon Liddy
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• The simple truth is, the short-term solution is for the FDA to allow more importation of safe vaccines from other nations. But the long-term solution is to get more vaccine production within the U.S.

  

  Larry Craig
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  • Simple

• I think it's important for people of colour to have similar opportunities to white people; that's what is most important.

  

  Mahershala Ali
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  • Think

• As instruments for knowing the objects, the sense organs are outside, and so they are called outer senses; and the mind is called the inner sense because it is inside. But the distinction between inner and outer is only with reference to the body; in truth, there is neither inner nor outer. The mind's nature is to remain pure like ether.

  

  Ramana Maharshi
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  • Nature

• Dissolution and custody matters are the great equalizers. Having done this for a while, you do realize that everybody has the same issues. It doesn't matter how much money you have or how much power you have, you are always afraid you're never going to see your child.

  

  Laura Wasser
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• I try to cancel out every possibility of losing the fight, and this runs through my head all day long. I'm seeing myself become smashed in the face, cut, or being submitted or being knocked out in so many different ways all day long.

  

  Nate Diaz
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• India has progressed to a stage where a divorcee status hardly matters. What matters is that you raise a positive, independent, well-behaved and intelligent child.

  

  Karisma Kapoor
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  • Child
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• It takes me so long to get tired of a man. It's women that are the problem. Don't get me wrong. I think men have their problems just as much as women.

  

  Garry Shandling
  • Men
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  • Women

• It's difficult to make your clients understand that there are certain days that the market will go up or down 2%, and it's basically driven by algorithms talking to algorithms. There's no real rhyme or reason for that. So it's difficult. We just try to preach long-term investing and staying the course.

  

  Warren Stephens
  • Up
  • Long
  • Real

• My view is that, as management, the focus has to be on having a strategy and executing it. As you do the strategy and execution, it is important to communicate it consistently.

  

  Uday Kotak
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  • Focus
  • Management

• Since I'm on a tour bus, sometimes it's really hard for me to wash my face, so I always make sure I have those Neutrogena Make-up Remover Cleansing Towelettes. No matter what and no matter how long the days are, I always have to wash with those before bed and when I wake up.

  

  Bebe Rexha
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• Truth always rests with the minority, and the minority is always stronger than the majority, because the minority is generally formed by those who really have an opinion, while the strength of a majority is illusory, formed by the gangs who have no opinion - and who, therefore, in the next instant (when it is evident that the minority is the stronger) assume its opinion ... while Truth again reverts to a new minority.

  

  Soren Kierkegaard
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• He had that faint sick look in his eyes, as if he wanted to give her something, charity for instance.

  

  Margaret Atwood
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  • Charity

• I don't do my best work while I'm in therapy. I'm too onto myself immediately seeing meanings in things and more likely to censor myself. I'd rather find images I don't understand. That's what generates the work.

  

  Ellen McLaughlin
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• Education has for its object to develop the child into a man of well proportioned and harmonious nature-this is alike the aim of parent and teacher.

  

  Herbert Spencer
  • Men
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• New truth is often uncomfortable, especially to the holders of power; nevertheless, amid the long record of cruelty and bigotry, it is the most important achievement of our intelligent but wayward species. ''

  

  Bertrand Russell
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