Bertrand Russell Quotes
Arithmetic must be discovered in just the same sense in which Columbus discovered the West Indies, and we no more create numbers than he created the Indians.
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I was so proud when I was commissioned into the Army.
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We believe in peace and peaceful development, not only for ourselves but for people all over the world.
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Memories, imagination, old sentiments, and associations are more readily reached through the sense of smell than through any other channel.
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I don't think there's any difference in my passion than when I was a young coach. I hope somebody in some way realizes I could be an asset, but we'll just wait and see.
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No matter that patriotism is too often the refuge of scoundrels. Dissent, rebellion, and all-around hell-raising remain the true duty of patriots.
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There are a lot of dynamics and a lot of politics that go into records and getting played on the radio.
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If audiences are sort of interested in movies that are made like McDonald's hamburgers, which do have a value in the world, then we have to re-evaluate our entire career.
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Every night we all felt grateful to be there, stunned at the amount of people that are there, and stunned at their reactions. They go crazy; they know every lyric from eight years of age to eighty. It's unbelievable.
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I offer originality: you don't know what my films are like until you go to them. I think that's the reason I've been getting all this attention.
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When I was a child, I felt at times that I had been born into an insane asylum, that much of human life appeared to be an insane asylum. It was bewildering.
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I'm always the interrogator. When I was an actor in rep, I always played sinister parts. The directors always said, 'If there's a nasty man about, cast Harold Pinter.'
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The true humanist maintains a just balance between sympathy and selection.
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And now we welcome the new year. Full of things that have never been.
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Take any writer you want in the 19th century: they wrote with quill pens, dipping a piece of goose feather in ink and writing. And yet we read those novels today, and if we're sensitive to them, we respond to them with an immediacy that is stronger than anything written today on a word processor.
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Life is hard. Not great. Kind of tragic.
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A man is usually more careful of his money than of his principles.
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I saw 'Star Wars' for the first time when I was four years old. Sure, I thought Princess Leia was awesome. But the character I identified with most was Luke Skywalker. I left the theater certain the Force was strong with me, that I could train to be a Jedi and wield a lightsaber just like Luke.
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I am very fond of the company of ladies. I like their beauty, I like their delicacy, I like their vivacity, and I like their silence.
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I got to get your presence Let's make it known I think you're just so pleasant I would like you for my own
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Very early in life, I fell in love with the landscape of the human face, where all the emotional states of life are to be found.
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On course doesn't mean perfect. On course means that even when things don't go perfectly - you are still going in the right direction.
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There is a town in north Ontario,With dream comfort memory to spare,And in my mind I still need a place to go,All my changes were there.
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Arithmetic must be discovered in just the same sense in which Columbus discovered the West Indies, and we no more create numbers than he created the Indians.
