Bertrand Russell Quotes

The observer, when he seems to himself to be observing a stone, is really, if physics is to be believed, observing the effects of the stone upon himself.

Bertrand Russell

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• Go to the doctor, get a checkup, and get Pap smears regularly. Cervical cancer is very preventable, and if you catch it early, there are tons of ways to treat it as well.

  

  Mandy Moore
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• Let the people on both sides keep their self-possession, and just as other clouds have cleared away in due time, so will this, and this great nation shall continue to prosper as before.

  

  Abraham Lincoln
  • People
  • Time
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• My son has taken liking for sports and is most of the time playing cricket and football. It is so much fun being with them, as I'm enjoying every phase of motherhood.

  

  Karisma Kapoor
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• My record speaks for itself.

  

  Canelo Alvarez
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• Revolutions are the locomotives of history.

  

  Karl Marx
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• I've found out how overwhelming the media is and the way it drills things into your head, it's almost like a mind control. If I could control prople's minds, I'd like to put something useful in.

  

  Natalie Merchant
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• If one man is representing India in cricket, then yes, blame that person when things go wrong.

  

  Sachin Tendulkar
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• For years I felt that I didn't have enough stamina and then, four years ago, I felt like I was not getting enough air but I was diagnosed with exercise-induced asthma. The medicine for asthma never worked.

  

  Venus Williams
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• I'm not saying that there's anything better than mated bliss at its best, but I'm saying that living alone is as good in its own way. But we haven't quite given ourselves permission to recognize that.

  

  Barbara Feldon
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• No one wants to stay in the tabloids. But it's actually not a terrible place to start.

  

  Rachel Zoe
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• You can't change anyone else, but people do change in relationship to your change.

  

  Jack Canfield
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• I love James Taylor, Jeff Buckley, Elliott Smith and Nine Inch Nails.

  

  Nat Wolff
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• If they bring a knife to the fight, we bring a gun.

  

  Barack Obama
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• It has always been the task of formal education to set up behavior which would prove useful or enjoyable later in a student's life.

  

  B. F. Skinner
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  • Up
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• For I have been a man, and that means to have been a fighter.

  

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

• When I was in school I liked math because all the problems had answers. Everything else seemed very subjective.

  

  Lisa Randall
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• And that dismal cry rose slowly And sank slowly through the air,Full of spirit's melancholy And eternity's despair;And they heard the words it said,-'Pan is dead! great Pan is dead! Pan, Pan is dead!'

  

  Elizabeth Barrett Browning
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• As our own species is in the process of proving, one cannot have superior science and inferior morals. The combination is unstable and self-destroying.

  

  Arthur C. Clarke
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• We lived in the bowels of New York City. It was a struggle just to survive. This nice suburban kid hadn't had to do much of that before.

  

  Peter Bergman
  • City
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• The key for me is really just to stay in a child-like state in the rehearsal studio. I'm really goofy and really silly and crazy. If I get too serious, I start hitting a wall.

  

  Derek Hough
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• Great minds had rather deserve contemporaneous applause, without obtaining it, than obtain, without deserving it; if it follow them, it is well, but they will not deviate to follow it. With inferior minds the reverse is observable.

  

  Charles Caleb Colton
  • Great

• For members of a traditional society where many traditions have been discredited, an interest in modernity can result in a restless sophistication. Mehmet Ertegun seems not to have been a restless man.

  

  George W. S. Trow
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• The observer, when he seems to himself to be observing a stone, is really, if physics is to be believed, observing the effects of the stone upon himself.

  

  Bertrand Russell