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Since the end of the Cold War, Soviet aggression had been replaced by a number of particularly venomous threats, from Timothy McVeigh to Osama bin Laden.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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The slanders poured down like Niagara. If you take into consideration the setting - the war and the revolution - and the character of the accused - revolutionary leaders of millions who were conducting their party to the sovereign power - you can say without exaggeration that July 1917 was the month of the most gigantic slander in world history.
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Just as a chemist "isolates" a substance from contaminations that distort his view of its nature and effects, so the work of art purifies significant appearance. It presents abstract themes in their generality, but not reduced to diagrams.
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There is more to a science fiction story than the science it contains. There is also the story.
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The calibre of TV's changing. It's becoming much more epic. To rival film, definitely.
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Even originally well-defined pencils of cathode rays from the Sun cannot reach the Earth. For Birkeland's theories to be correct, the existance of such cathode rays is clearly presupposed to be necessary...and this assumption is untenable.
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We need a science to save us from science.
