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Years Quotes by Bertrand Russell
- One must expect a war between U.S.A. and U.S.S.R. which will begin with the total destruction of London. I think the war will last 30…
- What's the difference between a bright, inquisitive five-year-old, and a dull, stupid nineteen-year-old? Fourteen years of the British educational system.
- If I were granted omnipotence, and millions of years to experiment in, I should not think Man much to boast of as the final result…
- For over two thousand years it has been the custom among earnest moralists to decry happiness as something degraded and unworthy
- In the visible world, the Milky Way is a tiny fragment; within this fragment, the solar system is an infinitesimal speck, and of this speck…
- But as the work proceeded I was continually reminded of the fable about the elephant and the tortoise. Having constructed an elephant upon which the…
- In adolescence, I hated life and was continually on the verge of suicide, from which, however, I was restrained by the desire to know more…
- If there were in the world today any large number of people who desired their own happiness more than they desired the unhappiness of others,…
- When you come to look into this argument from design, it is a most astonishing thing that people can believe that this world, with all…
- You may reasonably expect a man to walk a tightrope safely for ten minutes; it would be unreasonable to do so without accident for two…
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- Politics, it seems to me, for years, or all too long, has been concerned with right or left instead of right or… — Richard Armour
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- I think when you're 10 years old, it's too much to see something with the threat of death in every episode. Kids… — J. J. Abrams
- The first person to promulgate the Golden Rule, which was the bedrock of this empathic spirituality, was Confucius 500 years before Christ. — Karen Armstrong
- Pain is temporary. It may last a minute, or an hour, or a day, or a year, but eventually it will subside… — Lance Armstrong
- I joined the swim team when I was 12, and I was the worst kid in the pool - I was put… — Lance Armstrong
- It's tough to be a 15- or 16-year-old athlete competing around the country. There's tension, there's media. I had no idea what… — Lance Armstrong
- Obviously, I come from one background, and the people that design fitness equipment have been doing it for years and years, and… — Lance Armstrong
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- I learned a lot in those first years in Miami, while struggling just for survival, by observing my father's fortitude. — Desi Arnaz