Bertrand Russell Quotes
Both in thought and in feeling, even though time be real, to realise the unimportance of time is the gate of wisdom.
Quotes to Explore
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Funny is as funny does, and funny puts on a walrus mask and slowly gyrates in a mall food court. I laugh at absurdity hardest, then stories, then observations, then bearded men on roller skates.
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I wanted to define the vocabulary of a wedding both visually and intellectually. The book is about more than weddings or wedding dresses. It's a metaphor for women's lives, their creativity.
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We were taught manners and we had to do our chores - Katie and I grew up as normal kids.
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In tennis, because of the way it's scored, I don't think that scoring one point out of luck is ever decisive in winning. But, of course, it depends on the moment.
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Cartooning was a good fit for me. And yet now, years later, I almost never think about it.
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I'm a huge historical fiction and non-fiction fan.
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I only buy a computer when it's two years old, after the glitches have been worked out.
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I love the Royal Family. The Queen, she's fabulous.
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The balance of private good and general welfare is at the bottom of civilized morals; but the morals of the Heroic Age are founded on individuality, and on nothing else.
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People make mistakes. They say stupid things.
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The whole story of the comfort women, the system of forced sexual slavery, the medical experiments of Unit 731, is not something that is in the US psyche. That is changing because many books are coming out.
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Conflict is very much a state of mind. If you're not in that state of mind, it doesn't bother you.
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My dad went to jail for a long time. We lost everything, and the situation never resolved itself. My parents had this sort of passionate, disastrous desire for each other - not ideal to grow up in.
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Every four years in the presidential election, some new precedent is broken.
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Beware of monotony; it's the mother of all the deadly sins.
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There have been times when people who weren't my friends all of a sudden became my friend. I won't allow them to use me, but I have been pretty lucky to have friends who have supported me and who I have known since I was 12. They are still the same and they don't treat me any different.
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Racism is everywhere - the older generations in Malaysia still say things like, 'She's darker-skinned; maybe don't marry her,' and it's very judgmental. A lot of girls do try to get fairness cream to lighten their skin, and I'm against all of that.
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The world is a global economy. I thought, 'It's a bummer we don't have a unifying currency.' Then I saw Bitcoin had already had a crash and had the resistance to recover. The community was strong enough to push it through again. That's really exciting.
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I believe so much in the power of performance I don't want to convince people. I want them to experience it and come away convinced on their own.
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The death of a child is the greatest reason to doubt the existence of God.
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Anyone who wants bookstores to survive is portrayed as a Luddite who goes around smashing up Kindles.
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When you come to the end of all the light you know, and it's time to step into the darkness of the unknown, faith is knowing that one of two things shall happen: either you will be given something solid to stand on or you will be taught to fly.
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I like to say that I'm tracing the intersection between big ideas and human experience, between theology and real life.
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Both in thought and in feeling, even though time be real, to realise the unimportance of time is the gate of wisdom.
