Bertrand Russell Quotes
In a logically perfect language, there will be one word and no more for every simple object, and everything that is not simple will be expressed by a combination of words, by a combination derived, of course, from the words for the simple things that enter in, one word for each simple component.
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A horse never runs so fast as when he has other horses to catch up and outpace.
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The forthputting of willpower is a means of strengthening willpower. The will becomes strong by exercise. To stick to a thing till you are master is a test of intellectual discipline and power.
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Act because you love to act.
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It is a debt we owe to the purity of our religion to show that it is at variance with that law which warrants slavery.
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Yes, I suffer terribly from depression. I have to work at being happy, it's not my natural instinct. My natural instinct is, if something wonderful happens, to throw water in my own face.
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If I pop off and do something drastic, everyone's going to realise because they know I'm 50. Anyway, middle-aged women are sensational.
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I have no doubt that Brian May would have had a brilliant career in science had he completed his Ph.D. in 1971.
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I rarely play a real person, because I don't think I'm a good imitator.
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Find something that you love to do, and find a place that you really like to do it in. I found something I loved to do. I'm a mechanical engineer by training, and I loved it. I still do. My son is a nuclear engineer at MIT, a junior, and I get the same vibe from him. Your work has to be compelling. You spend a lot of time doing it.
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I like them all - I don't always approve. I see myself as a sort of benevolent uncle to these characters, and I can see why they do what they do; sometimes they make some mistakes, but at heart I think they're decent.
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I don't actually think there has ever been too much emphasis on what I am wearing.
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They hate whom they fear.
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There are those who seem to feel they have no choice about being jerks in the present because they had a crappy childhood. Well, that's the definition of childhood; nobody gets out alive. You either get stronger from what you experience, or you turn it into a crutch, an excuse, a dodge.
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When you're an athlete and you play every day and are conditioning yourself every year, the aging is gradual.
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I have a job to do on policy. And I think that's what people want their governor to do. Not politics, policy.
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It's my job, too, to keep up with pop culture and what the kids are into 'cause you don't want to sound like an old man trying to write for kids. I spend a lot of my time spying on them.
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If we could have seen through the televisions, we would probably have seen many a child grow up.
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The Queen is most anxious to enlist everyone in checking this mad, wicked folly of 'Women's Rights'. It is a subject which makes the Queen so furious that she cannot contain herself.
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There's always room to volunteer. I think that's a huge space to be involved with.
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We are staunch and true and in rather a champagne mood.
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I don't think Arizonans are interested in having the Mormon religion dictate public policy to them.
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It can be more productive to help people learn to be 'right' than prove they were 'wrong.'
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One so small Who knowing nothing knows but to obey.
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In a logically perfect language, there will be one word and no more for every simple object, and everything that is not simple will be expressed by a combination of words, by a combination derived, of course, from the words for the simple things that enter in, one word for each simple component.
