Bertrand Russell Quotes

Man is a credulous animal, and must believe something; in the absence of good grounds for belief, he will be satisfied with bad ones.

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• I've always cared about fashion and what I look like. I don't like to spend a lot of money on designer clothes, but I do like to look good.

  

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• I practice on the roads of Gaza as we don't have good stadiums and tracks so I gave my best.

  

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• Endure and persist; this pain will turn to good by and by.

  

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• Cleanliness is a good thing, which the society should embrace. But it has nothing to do with Modi, nor can he implement it.

  

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• Whenever I see a tree that is climbable, it must be climbed. Sometimes when I'm on a run, I'll just run up a tree, jump on a branch and swing off. My favorite tree, in Saratoga, gets me a good 75 feet up.

  

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• No one who is in this world will deny that evils exist. What, then, do we say? That evil is not a living and animated substance, but a condition of the soul which is opposed to virtue and which springs up In the slothful because of their falling away from good.

  

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• Acting provides the fulfillment of never being fulfilled. You're never as good as you'd like to be. So there's always something to hope for.

  

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• If I get a script that's set in the jungle it goes to the bottom of the pile because I don't think the playgrounds are going to be very good there! I'm really aware of how lucky I am but I have the kind of job where I can bring my child to work.

  

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

  

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• A book comes and says, 'Write me.' My job is to try to serve it to the best of my ability, which is never good enough, but all I can do is listen to it, do what it tells me and collaborate.

  

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• There are lots of people depending on the government who are good, honest citizens who have worked all their lives.

  

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• A man generally has two reasons for doing a thing. One that sounds good, and a real one.

  

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• Regardless of who you are, I believe that everybody in this country is entitled to justice.

  

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• A book tour is not a good opportunity to let your mind wander. You have to pay attention, remember salespeople's and interviewers' names, succinctly summarize your book in a 'selling' way, and so on.

  

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• Not all cops are bad, but this kind of harassment has been going on for years in the ghetto.

  

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• A narrow compass! and yet there Dwelt all that 's good, and all that 's fair; Give me but what this riband bound, Take all the rest the sun goes round.

  

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• I think, my own personal view is there should be higher and higher levels of autonomy; government should not interfere in setting up colleges, in running colleges. The market, the society will decide which is a good university, which is not a good university, rather than government mandating.

  

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• Monopolies are bad and deserve their reputation when things are static and the monopolies function as toll collectors... But I think they're quite positive when they're dynamic and do something new.

  

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• History has spurts and then is steady, and then maybe even backing up a step, and then forward again.

  

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• Times have changed. The athletes have changed.

  

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• I recently lost 50 pounds. I'm hovering on the cusp of a size eight, which seems unbelievable.

  

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• Be silent and safe-silence never betrays you.

  

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• Man is a credulous animal, and must believe something; in the absence of good grounds for belief, he will be satisfied with bad ones.

  

  Bertrand Russell
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