Bertrand Russell Quotes

The theoretical understanding of the world, which is the aim of philosophy, is not a matter of great practical importance to animals, or to savages, or even to most civilized men.

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• If large numbers of people believe they have no shot at a better life in the future, they will work less hard and generate fewer new ideas and businesses. The economy, as a whole, will be poorer.

  

  Adam Davidson
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• I never had plastic surgery. I had a nose procedure done because I had to. I had no cartilage in my nose; I have a piece of cartilage from my ear put into my nose. I had a medical procedure done. I have no plastic in my nose.

  

  Tamar Braxton
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• When I was 14, I was a passenger in a terrible accident.

  

  Quincy Jones
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• The science of life is changing hearts and minds.

  

  Gary Bauer
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• I found out that there was this project called the 'Great Green Wall' where they wanted to plant trees across the Sahara desert, and the idea was born that I wanted to create a support structure for that initiative.

  

  Magnus Larsson
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• It's always been my dream to just continually do really cool indie movies - character-driven stuff.

  

  Tatiana Maslany
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• Being a model, you're always the product of somebody else's vision.

  

  Karen Elson
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• I'm always afraid of failing. I have to quiet that fear if I'm going to get up in the morning.

  

  Taylor Swift
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• I come from a generation that suffered school lessons in portacabins and crumbling hospitals. I tell you one thing, for the eighteen years they were in power the Tories did nothing to fix the roof when the sun was shining.

  

  Ed Miliband
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• Like the old Italian saying goes, 'It ain't rocket surgery.'

  

  Nadia Giosia
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• I don't look at myself as suffering.

  

  A. J. Langer
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• Hard courts are very negative for the body. I know the sport is a business and creating these courts is easier than clay or grass, but I am 100 per cent sure it is wrong.

  

  Rafael Nadal
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• No phone, a movie, a glass of wine, and some salad. Perfect!

  

  Kate Moss
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• While on top of Everest, I looked across the valley towards the great peak Makalu and mentally worked out a route about how it could be climbed. It showed me that even though I was standing on top of the world, it wasn't the end of everything. I was still looking beyond to other interesting challenges.

  

  Edmund Hillary
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• If you get something like 'Avatar,' it opens up a lot of big blockbuster doors.

  

  Sam Worthington
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• I used to run away from school to my village. But later, I went to the U.S. for studies and lost touch.

  

  Randeep Hooda
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• I can never believe how much time and energy and money and talent and everything else is being poured into horrible ideas.

  

  Walter Becker Steely Dan
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• Science is Christian, not when it condemns itself to the letter of things, but when, in the infinitely little, it discovers as many mysteries and as much depth and power as in the infinitely great.

  

  Edgar Quinet
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• There is no suspense in inevitability.

  

  Damon Lindelof
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• I do know what my first meal in the next world would be... Spaghetti Aglio e Olio, heavy on everything.

  

  Rachael Ray
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• Globalization can be a great opportunity.

  

  Emmanuel Macron
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• Faith is conviction without evidence, and sometimes even in the face of contrary evidence. In some quarters, this quality is perceived as a virtue.

  

  Jack McDevitt
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• I got everything I wanted. When I was young in Kansas City, I knew nothing about Frank Sinatra, Billy Eckstine, Ella Fitzgerald, of all those concert halls, of all those countries. I did not know what it was like to direct a band... All I wanted was to be big, to be in show-business, and to travel...and that's what I've been doing all my life.

  

  Count Basie
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• The theoretical understanding of the world, which is the aim of philosophy, is not a matter of great practical importance to animals, or to savages, or even to most civilized men.

  

  Bertrand Russell
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