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.

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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.

  

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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
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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.

  

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• My record speaks for itself.

  

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• Revolutions are the locomotives of history.

  

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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.

  

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

  

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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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• Life and death are one thread, the same line viewed from different sides.

  

  Lao Tzu
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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.

  

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

  

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

  

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

  

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

  

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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.

  

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• For I have been a man, and that means to have been a fighter.

  

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

  

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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!'

  

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• This new thing about liking yourself, I find that absolutely appalling. Anyone who likes themselves, I just can't go too close to them. To me it's pure stupidity. But having some peace with yourself, that's quite a relief.

  

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• The spiritual path - is simply the journey of living our lives. Everyone is on a spiritual path; most people just don't know it.

  

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• Even now, when I'm asked how I'm doing, I like to reply, 'Pretty good. I've got all my fingers and both eyes.

  

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• It's a very telling thing when you have children. You have to be there for them, you've got to set an example, when you're not sure what your example is, and anyway the world is changing so fast you don't know what is appropriate anymore.

  

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• Severus Snape wasn't yours," said Harry. "Snape was Dumbledores, Dumbledores from the moment you started hunting down my mother.

  

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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