"One of the troubles about vanity is that……" — Bertrand Russell
"One of the troubles about vanity is that it grows with what it feeds on. The more you are talked about, the more you will wish to be talked about"
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Bertrand Russell
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824 Quotes by Bertrand Russell
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I do not pretend to be able to prove that there is no God. I equally cannot prove that Satan…
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If I were a medical man, I should prescribe a holiday to any patient who considered his work important.
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But if thought is to become the possession of many, not the privilege of the few, we must have done…
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This has been my life. I have found it worth living, and would gladly live it again if the second…
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Power is sweet; it is a drug, the desire for which increases with a habit.
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The desire to understand the world and the desire to reform it are the two great engines of progress, without…
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Life is just one cup of coffee after another, and don't look for anything else.
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Drunkeness is temporary suicide: the happiness that it brings is merely negative, a momentary cessation of unhappiness.
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Either man will abolish war, or war will abolish man.
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More Feeds Quotes
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The babe at first feeds upon the mother's bosom, but it is always on her heart.
— Henry Ward Beecher
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I want to be ripped apart by music. I want it to be something that feeds and replenishes, or that…
— Jeff Buckley
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Censorship feeds the dirty mind more than the four-letter word itself.
— Dick Cavett
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An appeaser is one who feeds a crocodile, hoping it will eat him last.
— Winston Churchill
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Just as the soul fills the body, so God fills the world. Just as the soul bears the body, so…
— Marcus Tullius Cicero
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There is enough for everyone to have what they need without exploitation. Adequate distribution of resources, including education, without violence…
— Unknown Author
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Love is kindled in a flame, and ardency is its life. Flame is the air which true Christian experience breathes.…
— Edward McKendree Bounds
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Memory feeds imagination.
— Amy Tan
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Charity feeds the poor, so does pride; charity builds an hospital, so does pride. In this they differ: charity gives…
— Francis Quarles
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I love life. I'm fascinated by human behavior because that feeds back into my work.
— Joseph Fiennes
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The Poor Man whom everyone speaks of, the Poor Man whom everyone pities, one of the repulsive Poor from whom…
— Albert Camus
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True evangelical faith, cannot lie dormant, it clothes the naked, it feeds the hungry, it comforts the sorrowful, it shelters…
— Menno Simons
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