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.

Bertrand Russell

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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.

  

  M. Night Shyamalan
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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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• 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 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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• Take my hand, we'll make it i swear.

  

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• And every time I scratch my nails down someone else's back I hope you feel it.

  

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• These days, there are sheriff squads whose full-time job is to carry out eviction and foreclosure orders. There are moving companies specializing in evictions, their crews working all day, every weekday.

  

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• No, life ends and no, there is nothing elsewhere, and no question now of ever finding again that white speck lost in whiteness, to see if they still lie still in the stress of that storm, or of a worse storm, or in the black dark for good, or the great whiteness unchanging, and if not what they are doing.

  

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• Our strategy is one of preventing war by making it self-evident to our enemies that they're going to get their clocks cleaned if they start one.

  

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• Like everyone else, I am wary about the way spending is being increased at some levels.

  

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• Well, I'll keep on auditioning and one day maybe I'll go to LA and try out for films 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.

  

  Bertrand Russell