#wil

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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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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Any relations in a social order will endure, if there is infused into them some of that spirit of human sympathy which qualifies life for immortality. ↗

— George William Russell

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Twilight, a timid, fawn, went glimmering by, and Night, the dark-blue hunter, followed fast. ↗

— George William Russell

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For myself, if I am to stake all I have and hope to be upon anything, I will venture it upon the abounding fullness of God - upon the assurance that, as the heavens are higher than the earth, so are His ways higher than our ways, and His thoughts than our thoughts. ↗

— Henry Norris Russell

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What makes people the world over stand in line for Van Gogh is not that they will see beautiful pictures but that in an indefinable way they will come away feeling better human beings. And that is exactly what Van Gogh hoped for. ↗

— John Russell

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Believe me when I say that Bill Clinton's second term will be good for business. My business. ↗

— Mark Russell

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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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Ultimately, your theme will find you. You don't have to go looking for it. ↗

— Richard Russo

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Baseball was, is and always will be to me the best game in the world. ↗

— Babe Ruth

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