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Men cannot not live by exchanging articles, but producing them. They live by work not trade. ↗

— John Ruskin

#cannot #exchanging #live #men #producing

To give alms is nothing unless you give thought also. ↗

— John Ruskin

#also #give #nothing #thought #unless

There is much pleasure to be gained from useless knowledge. ↗

— Bertrand Russell

#knowledge #much #pleasure #useless #useless knowledge

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

— Bertrand Russell

#chief #education #faced #fact #freedom

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

— Bertrand Russell

#defined #desires #freedom #general #may

Thought is subversive and revolutionary, destructive and terrible, Thought is merciless to privilege, established institutions, and comfortable habit. Thought is great and swift and free. ↗

— Bertrand Russell

#destructive #established #free #great #habit

The closer you stay to emotional authenticity and people, character authenticity, the less you can go wrong. That's how I feel now, no matter what you're doing. ↗

— David O. Russell

#character #closer #doing #emotional #feel

Sometimes it's the smallest decisions that can change your life forever. ↗

— Keri Russell

#decisions #forever #life #smallest #sometimes

Humor is very very risky, particularly for a candidate, unless he's been in so long that it just doesn't matter, and he's not running for president. But it's just that people are so sensitive and so touchy, and you're just going to upset somebody without ever realizing it. ↗

— Mark Russell

#candidate #ever #going #humor #just

Cary Grant never won an Oscar, primarily, I suspect, because he made everything look so effortless. Why reward someone for having fun, for being charming? ↗

— Richard Russo

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