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I think we ought always to entertain our opinions with some measure of doubt. I shouldn't wish people dogmatically to believe any philosophy, not even mine. ↗

— Bertrand Russell

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Almost everything that distinguishes the modern world from earlier centuries is attributable to science, which achieved its most spectacular triumphs in the seventeenth century. ↗

— Bertrand Russell

#almost #attributable #centuries #century #distinguishes

Both in thought and in feeling, even though time be real, to realise the unimportance of time is the gate of wisdom. ↗

— Bertrand Russell

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Next to enjoying ourselves, the next greatest pleasure consists in preventing others from enjoying themselves, or, more generally, in the acquisition of power. ↗

— Bertrand Russell

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We want better reasons for having children than not knowing how to prevent them. ↗

— Dora Russell

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You know that a given in life in human nature, is that at a sporting event, a baseball game, a football game, you never introduce a politician, is because he'll be booed. I don't care if he's the most beloved person in the world, its part of the game. ↗

— Mark Russell

#baseball #baseball game #because #beloved #booed

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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My books are elegiac in the sense that they're odes to a nation that even I sometimes think may not exist anymore except in my memory and my imagination. ↗

— Richard Russo

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It is to be deeply regretted that the clergymen would oppose an effort to teach the people the Bible truths; nevertheless, we find much opposition everywhere, and many clergymen will attempt to prevent the people from reading what is here written. ↗

— Joseph Franklin Rutherford

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They said that Seven was a former Borg who had been human and had been assimilated. She was regaining her humanity. I had no interest in this character. ↗

— Jeri Ryan

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