Bertrand Russell Quotes
The principal source of the harm done by the State is the fact that power is its chief end.
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I distrust Great Men. They produce a desert of uniformity around them and often a pool of blood too, and I always feel a little man's pleasure when they come a cropper.
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Free people make the only milieu possible in society for the full gift of one's self to church, state, and family. Free people enjoy and sustain and feel with one another because they live for one another. The paths of life are intermingled lives.
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One of the prices that we pay for integration was the disintegration of the black community.
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I think being idle is quite hard for me to do.
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Money brings a lot of responsibility as to what you're going to do with it, and I've given quite a bit of thought to that.
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I love Jen Meyer - she's a dear friend, and Tabitha Simmons as well.
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I like to smile. I smile even when I'm nervous since it calms me down and shows my friendliness.
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I love a lot of music that's considered folk music, but I also love a lot of music that's considered punk or considered rap. I don't mind being called a folk singer. But it seems a bit limiting. I want to be able to write whatever kind of song I want.
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Every game has to teach you how to walk, run, talk, use.
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Everything that I design I would wear myself.
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Investing in Chicago property is just Wanda's first move into the U.S. real estate market.
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As leaders, we become whole when we see that our focused, singular commitment to making the numbers and the metrics cannot be effective on its own, but only when it is part of the whole picture - only when we see that it takes more than metrics to make up the whole.
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Japan's biggest problems are conservatism and cowardice.
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I feel very close to Maryann Plunkett and Jay O. Sanders.
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I do not... look very feminine. Diana, Princess of Wales is feminine... I am... femi-none.
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When you start a business, go for the lowest hanging fruit.
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The emphasis should be on why we do a job.
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For me, the labor movement and public education are linked as the essential building blocks to a strong middle class and a path to the American dream. It's why I went to Cornell's School of Industrial and Labor Relations as an undergrad and then to law school.
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My idea is always to reach my generation. The wise writer writes for the youth of his own generation, the critics of the next, and the schoolmasters of ever afterward.
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It's very, very dangerous to lose contact with living nature. … In the big cities, there are people who have never seen living nature, all things are products of humans … The bigger the town, the less they see and understand nature.
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Back in the East you can't do much without the right papers, but with the right papers you can do anything The believe in papers. Papers are power.
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I have two brothers buried in the military cemetery in Texas. I don't want to see any more of that.
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Nothing made the horse so fat as the king's eye.
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The principal source of the harm done by the State is the fact that power is its chief end.
