Quote by Bertrand Russell
A happy life must be to a great extent a quiet life, for it is onl

A happy life must be to a great extent a quiet life, for it is only in an atmosphere of quiet that true joy dare live. – Bertrand Russell

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

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Those who in principle oppose birth control are either incapable of arithmetic or else in favor of war, pestilence and famine as permanent features of human life. – Bertrand Russell

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The theoretical understanding of the world, which is the aim of philosophy, is not a matter of great practical importance to animals, or to savages, or even to most civilised men. – Bertrand Russell

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The great nations have always acted like gangsters, and the small nations like prostitutes. – Stanley Kubrick

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In reading the lives of great men, I found that the first victory they won was over themselves… self-discipline with all of them came first. – Harry S. Truman

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The great thing in the world is not so much where we stand, as in what direction we are moving. – Oliver Wendell Holmes

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I see great things in baseball. Its our game – the American game. – Walt Whitman

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