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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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If any philosopher had been asked for a definition of infinity, he might have produced some unintelligible rigmarole, but he would certainly not have been able to give a definition that had any meaning at all. – Bertrand Russell

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If there were in the world today any large number of people who desired their own happiness more than they desired the unhappiness of others, we could have a paradise in a few years. – Bertrand Russell

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

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My son, we ought to lay up a stock of absurd enthusiasms in our youth, or else we shall reach the end of our journey with an empty heart, for we lose a great many on our way. – Victor Cherbuliez, Samuel Brohl and Partner, 1877, translated from French (trans

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I did successfully kick tobacco at the age of 34. I smoked for like 20 years, from 14 to 34. – Larry Hagman

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The face you have at age 25 is the face God gave you, but the face you have after 50 is the face you earned. – Cindy Crawford

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If youth knew if age could. – Sigmund Freud

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