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Quote by Bertrand Russell
Conventional people are roused to fury by departures from conventi

Conventional people are roused to fury by departures from convention, largely because they regard such departures as a criticism of themselves. – Bertrand Russell

Other quotes by Bertrand Russell

Contempt for happiness is usually contempt for other peoples happiness, and is an elegant disguise for hatred of the human race. – Bertrand Russell

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Happiness
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Bertrand Russell
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I like mathematics because it is not human and has nothing particular to do with this planet or with the whole accidental universe – because, like Spinozas God, it wont love us in return. – Bertrand Russell

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God
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Bertrand Russell
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Other Quotes from
Tradition
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You must be in tune with the times and prepared to break with tradition. – James Agee

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Tradition

Every generation laughs at the old fashions, but religiously follows the new. – Henry David Thoreau

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Tradition

Why cant somebody give us a list of things that everybody thinks and nobody says, and another list of things that everybody says and nobody thinks. – Oliver Wendell Holmes

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Tradition

A tradition without intelligence is not worth having. – TS (Thomas Stearns) Eliot

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Tradition

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Everyone ought to bear patiently the results of his own conduct. – Phaedrus

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Patience

I started imagining this whole different world. It was a society of musicians, a family I hoped I could belong to one day. – Quincy Jones

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Society

Anywhere, anytime ordinary people are given the chance to choose, the choice is the same: freedom, not tyranny democracy, not dictatorship the rule of law, not the rule of the secret police. – Tony Blair

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Freedom

Death is no more than passing from one room into another. But theres a difference for me, you know. Because in that other room I shall be able to see. – Helen Keller

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Death