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Second Quotes by Bertrand Russell
- This has been my life. I have found it worth living, and would gladly live it again if the second chance were offered me.
- Real life is, to most men, a long second best, a perpetual compromise between the ideal and the possible.
- Scientific method, although in its more refined forms it may seem complicated, is in essence remarkably simply. It consists in observing such facts as will…
- There are three ways of securing a society that shall be stable as regards population. The first is that of birth control, the second that…
- In the first place a philosophical proposition must be general. It must not deal specially with things on the surface of the earth, or within…
- I know a parson who frightened his congregation terribly by telling them the second coming was very imminent indeed, but they were much consoled when…
- Work is of two kinds: first, altering the position of matter at or near the earth's surface relative to other matter; second, telling other people…
- These illustrations suggest four general maxims[...]. The first is: remember that your motives are not always as altruistic as they seem to yourself. The second…
- If we were all given by magic the power to read each other’s thoughts, I suppose the first effect would be almost all friendships would…
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- Custom is second nature. — Saint Augustine
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- I'm a performance artist first; I'm a recording artist second. — Erykah Badu
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