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To teach how to live without certainty and yet without being paral

To teach how to live without certainty and yet without being paralysed by hesitation is perhaps the chief thing that philosophy, in our age, can do for those who study it. – Bertrand Russell

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Organic life, we are told, has developed gradually from the protozoon to the philosopher, and this development, we are assured, is indubitably an advance. Unfortunately it is the philosopher, not the protozoon, who gives us this assurance. – Bertrand Russell

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The most savage controversies are about matters as to which there is no good evidence either way. – Bertrand Russell

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Those who forget good and evil and seek only to know the facts are more likely to achieve good than those who view the world through the distorting medium of their own desires. – Bertrand Russell

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It seems no more than right that men should seize time by the forelock, for the rude old fellow, sooner or later, pulls all their hair out. – George Dennison Prentice, Prenticeana, 1860

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I think the most exciting thing is that you expect people our age to know the music, but actually a lot of kids know the music, and if anything is left, we have left really good music, and thats the important part, not the mop-tops or whatever. – Ringo Starr

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Ill tell you, there is nothing better in life than being a late bloomer. I believe that success can happen at any time and at any age. – Salma Hayek

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A final word: I am not knowledgeable about the internet. I do not have a computer. I guess that at 74 years of age, I dont have the patience to learn. – David Wilkerson

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I never ask for mercy and seek no ones sympathy. – Conrad Black

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Journalism is literature in a hurry. – Matthew Arnold

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Gods got something for me. I have faith itll be OK. – Chubby Checker

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Being forced to work, and forced to do your best, will breed in you temperance and self-control, diligence and strength of will, cheerfulness and content, and a hundred virtues which the idle will never know. – Charles Kingsley

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