Bertrand Russell Quotes
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One of the prices that we pay for integration was the disintegration of the black community.
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Johnny Carson was a mean-spirited human being. And there are people that he has hurt that people will never know about. And for some reason, at some point, he decided to turn that kind of negative attention toward me. And I refused to have it.
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Free trade is not based on utility but on justice.
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My readers at that time were still men of letters; but there had to be other people waiting to read my poems.
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There is no point in pointing fingers because there are three fingers pointing back at you.
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My life has been devoted to the upliftment of the Filipino by reestablishing his identity and dignity.
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Many societal problems concern science, such as the energy crisis, genetic alterations of foods.
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It's a coincidence that most of the films I have done are to do with social causes.
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Since the end of the Cold War, Soviet aggression had been replaced by a number of particularly venomous threats, from Timothy McVeigh to Osama bin Laden.
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People don't care about questionnaires.
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Circumstances give in reality to every political principle its distinguishing color and discriminating effect. The circumstances are what render every civil and political scheme beneficial or noxious to mankind.
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'Marco Polo' had some negative reactions in the press. Viewers have loved it, and the volume of viewing has been phenomenal.
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I wish at times I had finished school just to say I had.
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Parents often talk about the younger generation as if they didn't have anything to do with it.
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I see no conflict whatsoever between Christianity and good business practices. People say you can't mix business with religion. I say there's no other way.
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I was watching the Danish version of 'The Killing' when I got the audition for 'The Fall,' and I loved it; it was so original. I approached 'The Fall' with that in mind. I'd no problem with the violence - it was very clear from the script how horrifying the crimes were and that had to be shown, without going to extremes.
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Art is the child of Nature; yes, her darling child, in whom we trace the features of the mother's face, her aspect and her attitude.
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I never knew a writer yet who took the smallest pains with his style and was at the same time readable.
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Science fiction has these obsessions with certain sciences - large scale engineering, neuroscience.
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When I was a boy in Salem, Mass., in the 1950s, if you wanted to buy a book, you had to take a train to Boston. And when you got there, to a bookstore, there was no such thing as a science-fiction section.
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To be independent of public opinion is the first formal condition of achieving anything great or rational whether in life or in science. Great achievement is assured, however, of subsequent recognition and grateful acceptance by public opinion, which in due course will make it one of its own prejudices
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I was always first in, last out, but not inefficiently.
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We need a science to save us from science.
