Bertrand Russell Quotes
The infliction of cruelty with a good conscience is a delight to moralists. That is why they invented Hell.
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I like playing sort-of-crazy people. There's something really, really fun about that.
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I sometimes read in a gossip column that I was at a party when I was in Europe at the time. It sometimes feels I've got a Doppelganger somewhere.
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After being nearly eradicated from the lower 48 states by the 1960s, bald eagles were re-introduced to the Adirondacks in the 1980s, and I'm proud to report the view from my home indicates they are flourishing in upstate New York.
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I am a very loyal man and always keep my promises when I commit to something.
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I have never thought of a full-fledged career in Bollywood because boxing has never left my mind. But you never know.
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It would be a foolish high representative who worked that way.
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You see people in Hollywood trying to make blockbuster after blockbuster, but it's not possible. There's some god up there saying, 'You will fail now.' But I suppose that's true of us all.
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I've seen the future and it's much like the present only longer.
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The joy of YouTube is that you can create content about anything you feel passionate about, however silly the subject matter.
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Is it the right thing to burn Qurans? Legally? Can pastor burn Quran tomorrow? People accept legally it is right. But is it the right thing to do? No.
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You always have to be on at times, and occasionally people get upset if you say no to a picture when you're eating dinner or something, and that's kind of the hard part. Or if you get crazy rumors that swirl around you from time to time that are just silly.
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I choose to express myself.
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Sir Rodin convinced my parents to have me committed; they are all in Paris to arrange it.
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I don't ever want to feel complacent.
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One never knows whether people have principles on principle or whether for their own personal satisfaction.
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A true knowledge of ourselves is knowledge of our power.
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I would never be able to spend all my life in a busy city like Mumbai.
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(Hawthorne Abendsen) told us about our own world. This, what's around us now. He wants us to see it for what it is. And I do, and more so each moment.
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The causes of continuity are a priori within the scope of the observer, but the causes of change in time are not. It is better not to attempt giving an exact account at this point, but to restrict discussion to the shifting of relationships in general. Time changes all things; there is no reason why language should escape this universal law.
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All I can tell you really is if you get to the point where someone is telling you that you are not great or not good enough, just follow your heart and don't let anybody crush your dream.
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When I first met my husband, he had a very good job - company car, pension plan, grudging respect from his staff - the lot. I, on the other hand, was badly paid and devoid of ambition. Then I had a couple of books published and confounded all expectations by starting to earn more than he did.
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I used to swallow people's energies, and then I learned, as I got older, that I'm too sensitive, and I had to stop doing that. Now I don't take as much in.
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The infliction of cruelty with a good conscience is a delight to moralists. That is why they invented Hell.
