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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

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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Happiness
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Bertrand Russell
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Neither a man nor a crowd nor a nation can be trusted to act humanely or to think sanely under the influence of a great fear. – Bertrand Russell

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Fear
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Many a man will have the courage to die gallantly, but will not have the courage to say, or even to think, that the cause for which he is asked to die is an unworthy one. – Bertrand Russell

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Courage
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Other Quotes from
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To keep up even a worthwhile tradition means vitiating the idea behind it which must necessarily be in a constant state of evolution: it is mad to try to express new feelings in a mummified form. – Alfred Jarry

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Tradition

There is nothing in the world more stubborn than a corpse: you can hit it, you can knock it to pieces, but you cannot convince it. – Alexander Herzen

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Tradition

The assumption must be that those who can see value only in tradition, or versions of it, deny mans ability to adapt to changing circumstances. – Stephen Bayley

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Tradition

Whether he is aware of it or not, every human being dwells in tradition and history. Human memory is this constant dwelling in tradition. It constitutes that fundamental human characteristic of historicity. – Medard Boss

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Tradition

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Where large sums of money are concerned, it is advisable to trust nobody. – Agatha Christie

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I am partial to ladies if they are nice. I suppose it is my nature. I am not quite a gentleman but you would hardly notice it. – Daisy Ashford

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Theres no mystique to acting. Its only common sense – and a bit of courage. – Bill Hunter

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To change a habit, make a conscious decision, then act out the new behavior. – Maxwell Maltz

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Change