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We are faced with the paradoxical fact that education has become one of the chief obstacles to intelligence and freedom of thought. ↗

— Bertrand Russell

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The observer, when he seems to himself to be observing a stone, is really, if physics is to be believed, observing the effects of the stone upon himself. ↗

— Bertrand Russell

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Freedom in general may be defined as the absence of obstacles to the realization of desires. ↗

— Bertrand Russell

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Man is a credulous animal, and must believe something; in the absence of good grounds for belief, he will be satisfied with bad ones. ↗

— Bertrand Russell

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Mathematics takes us into the region of absolute necessity, to which not only the actual word, but every possible word, must conform. ↗

— Bertrand Russell

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Obscenity is whatever happens to shock some elderly and ignorant magistrate. ↗

— Bertrand Russell

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I'm a big fan of simplicity, especially with songs and I try not to make them complicated. I just make them simple and let people absorb that message themselves. That's my theory. ↗

— Graham Russell

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At the risk of appearing disingenuous, I don't really think of myself as 'writing humor.' I'm simply reporting on the world I observe, which is frequently hilarious. ↗

— Richard Russo

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If my career continues along its current arc, people will probably look at me and see a writer who is obsessed with the relationship between rich and poor and with how the rich somehow or other always manage to betray the poor, even when they don't mean to. ↗

— Richard Russo

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The defence and air defence ministers were both replaced and more than 2,000 officers lost their jobs. ↗

— Mathias Rust

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