Bertrand Russell Quotes
The principal source of the harm done by the State is the fact that power is its chief end.
Quotes to Explore
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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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You need a routine, to be able to spend some time with a person, and my lifestyle is constantly on the move.
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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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You're going through the horror of it, you're going through the isolation of it but you're being empowered by reminding yourself that you're connected to everybody else.
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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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At the end of the day, every decision I make about my music is about creating a collective.
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Warren Beatty once told me that if someone's really stuck on you, find them their next boyfriend. But I could never do that.
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I was a little adult for my age as a teenager, and I didn't feel like I socially fit in with my peers.
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I love Jen Meyer - she's a dear friend, and Tabitha Simmons as well.
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Anybody that believes that a country can be maintained that has no ethnic core to it or no linguistic core to it, I believe, is naive in the extreme.
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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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You must never underestimate the power of the eyebrow.
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The first task of the Magician in every ceremony is therefore to render his Circle absolutely impregnable.
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I think novels - or any art form - can have a powerful impact on people's perceptions of race, particularly if they draw attention to the absurd inconsistencies and stereotypes we all carry around with us and don't want to think about.
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It's something that will never be finished. Something that I can keep developing...and adding to.
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I was born in that family. So I don't know the difference between born as an actor's son and not being an actor's son. I never knew whether it was good or bad.
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The principal source of the harm done by the State is the fact that power is its chief end.
