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Quote by Bertrand Russell
Against my will, in the course of my travels, the belief that ever

Against my will, in the course of my travels, the belief that everything worth knowing was known at Cambridge gradually wore off. In this respect my travels were very useful to me. – Bertrand Russell

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If one man offers you democracy and another offers you a bag of grain, at what stage of starvation will you prefer the grain to the vote? – 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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If all our happiness is bound up entirely in our personal circumstances it is difficult not to demand of life more than it has to give. – Bertrand Russell

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I did private study for about a month, five days a week, six hours a day. I came to understand the character in ways that I never wouldve previous to that. I was so innocent in respect to ways of creating characters. – Corin Nemec

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