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Word Quotes by Bertrand Russell
- I think it would be just to say the most essential characteristic of mind is memory, using this word in its broadest sense to include…
- 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…
- A word is used "correctly" when the average hearer will be affected by it in the way intended. This is a psychological, not a literary,…
- I am paid by the word, so I always write the shortest words possible.
- Mathematics takes us into the region of absolute necessity, to which not only the actual word, but every possible word, must conform.
- So far as I can remember, there is not one word in the Gospels in praise of intelligence.
- Every philosophical problem, when it is subjected to the necessary analysis and justification, is found either to be not really philosophical at all, or else…
- In the revolt against idealism, the ambiguities of the word experience have been perceived, with the result that realists have more and more avoided the…
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- The thing is, acoustic could be like a four-letter word to a lot of kids. — Billie Joe Armstrong
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- When we speak the word 'life,' it must be understood we are not referring to life as we know it from its… — Antonin Artaud
- I prefer the word 'homemaker' because 'housewife' always implies that there may be a wife someplace else. — Bella Abzug
- A word after a word after a word is power. — Margaret Atwood
- If I waited for perfection... I would never write a word. — Margaret Atwood
- I think an artist, in my definition of that word, would not be someone who takes sides with the emperor against his… — Chinua Achebe
- India of the ages is not dead nor has she spoken her last creative word; she lives and has still something to… — Sri Aurobindo
- I guess the toughest things in translations are word play, which can never be reproduced exactly. — Paul Auster
- The reason is that till date, in spite of advances in information technology and strategies of information, the written word in the… — Ibrahim Babangida
- I'm a total Democrat. I'm anti-Republican. And it's only fair that you know it... I'm liberal. The L word! — Lauren Bacall
- A synonym is a word you use when you can't spell the word you first thought of. — Burt Bacharach