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The greatest thing a human soul ever does in this world... to see clearly is poetry, prophecy and religion all in one. ↗

— John Ruskin

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When we build, let us think that we build for ever. ↗

— John Ruskin

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It is preoccupation with possessions, more than anything else, that prevents us from living freely and nobly. ↗

— Bertrand Russell

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I believe in using words, not fists. I believe in my outrage knowing people are living in boxes on the street. I believe in honesty. I believe in a good time. I believe in good food. I believe in sex. ↗

— Bertrand Russell

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A life without adventure is likely to be unsatisfying, but a life in which adventure is allowed to take whatever form it will is sure to be short. ↗

— Bertrand Russell

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There's place and means for every man alive. ↗

— William Shakespeare

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I've made an odd discovery. Every time I talk to a savant I feel quite sure that happiness is no longer a possibility. Yet when I talk with my gardener, I'm convinced of the opposite. ↗

— Bertrand Russell

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Mathematics may be defined as the subject in which we never know what we are talking about, nor whether what we are saying is true. ↗

— Bertrand Russell

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Patriots always talk of dying for their country and never of killing for their country. ↗

— 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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