Bertrand Russell Quotes
A European who goes to New York and Chicago sees the future... when he goes to Asia he sees the past.
Quotes to Explore
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Tackling affordable housing via land use planning won't necessarily solve the problem.
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The great philosophers and the great works are standards for the selection of what is essential. Everything that we do in studying the history of philosophy ultimately serves their better understanding.
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To get an Army that's already fighting a war to change in stride to a total different military strategy on the ground - and to get everybody on the same page - was accomplished by the sheer force of Dave Petraeus' will.
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I live with my family. I moved to L.A. eight years ago, and it's the same room. But I'm looking now. I might get a condo.
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I usually have eight to 10 meetings a day and travel 150 days a year..._It sounds crazy, but I wouldn't have it any other way.
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Family quarrels are bitter things. They don't go according to any rules. They're not like aches or wounds, they're more like splits in the skin that won't heal because there's not enough material.
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Lipgloss is my calling!
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I educated myself. To me, school was boring.
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We read Robert Browning's poetry. Here we needed no guidance from the professor: the poems themselves were enough.
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My choosing Islam was not a political statement; it was a spiritual statement.
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It's kind of fun to do the impossible.
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Everyone is just nicer to prettier people.
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I'm a pretty plain-spoken guy.
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It was among farmers and potato diggers and old men in workhouses and beggars at my own door that I found what was beyond these and yet farther beyond that drawingroom poet of my childhood in the expression of love, and grief, and the pain of parting, that are the disclosure of the individual soul.
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I'm proud of my decade-long fight to have all ophthalmologists re-certify, regardless of age.
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I have a few homes, and Los Angeles is certainly one of them.
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I'm anti-cheese in a salad.
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I love to read books by women I look up to who are smart, funny, and interesting, like Tina Fey's 'Bossypants' and Mindy Kaling's 'Is Everyone Hanging Out Without Me?'
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'They’re just ordinary people,' Nancy said. 'You can’t expect too much of them.'
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Those who purify your water, inspect your meat, and test your kids' toys, as well as a huge number of nurses, teachers, and our soldiers, are public employees. The firefighters who don't hesitate to rush toward danger while you run away from it - they are all public employees.
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I don't want to follow in anyone's footsteps. I want to follow my own path and do something unique.
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Science fiction writers have usually been very poor prognosticators of the future, either in literary or technological terms, and that's because we're all too human and, I think, have the tendency to see what we want to or, in the case of those more paranoid, what we fear.
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Vikings were pretty brutal, but also very educated people. They were salesmen, businessmen who started raiding when business wasn't good. That's why they had such great boats.
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A European who goes to New York and Chicago sees the future... when he goes to Asia he sees the past.
