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When thought becomes excessively painful, action is the finest remedy. ↗

— Salman Rushdie

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I used to say, 'There is a God-shaped hole in me.' For a long time I stressed the absence, the hole. Now I find it is the shape which has become more important. ↗

— Salman Rushdie

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The only way to find out why someone decides to engage in armed combat is to look at their individual personality. ↗

— Salman Rushdie

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Let us reform our schools, and we shall find little reform needed in our prisons. ↗

— John Ruskin

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Millions of hells of sinners cannot come near to exhaust infinite grace. ↗

— Samuel Rutherford

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

— Bertrand Russell

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What is wanted is not the will to believe, but the will to find out, which is the exact opposite. ↗

— Bertrand Russell

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If any philosopher had been asked for a definition of infinity, he might have produced some unintelligible rigmarole, but he would certainly not have been able to give a definition that had any meaning at all. ↗

— Bertrand Russell

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The slave is doomed to worship time and fate and death, because they are greater than anything he finds in himself, and because all his thoughts are of things which they devour. ↗

— Bertrand Russell

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