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Makes Quotes by Bertrand Russell
- It is clear that thought is not free if the profession of certain opinions makes it impossible to earn a living.
- If an opinion contrary to your own makes you angry, that is a sign that you are subconsciously aware of having no good reason for…
- There is... in our day, a powerful antidote to nonsense, which hardly existed in earlier times - I mean science. Science cannot be ignored or…
- A man who has once perceived, however temporarily and however briefly, what makes greatness of soul, can no longer be happy if he allows himself…
- Curious learning not only makes unpleasant things less unpleasant but also makes pleasant things more pleasant.
- We believe, first and foremost, what makes us feel that we are fine fellows.
- It is only theory that makes men completely incautious.
- With civilized men..., it is, I think, chiefly love of excitement which makes the populace applaud when war breaks out; the emotion is exactly the…
- Dread of disaster makes everybody act in the very way that increases the disaster. Psychologically the situation is analogous to that of people trampled to…
- Belief in God and a future life makes it possible to go through life with less of stoic courage than is needed by skeptics.
- There is an element of the busybody in our conception of virtue: unless a man makes himself a nuisance to a great many people, we…
- One is often told that it is a very wrong thing to attack religion, because religion makes men virtuous. So I am told; I have…
- Real love hurts, real love makes you totally open and vulnerable. Real love will take you far behind yourself,and therefore real love will devastate you.…
- Dread of disaster makes everybody act in the very way that increases the disaster.
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- Spare me the whispering, crowded room, the friends who come and gape and go, the ceremonious air of gloom - all, which… — Matthew Arnold
- A good goal is like a strenuous exercise - it makes you stretch. — Mary Kay Ash
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- Indeed, wretched the man whose fame makes his misfortunes famous. — Lucius Accius
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