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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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Both in thought and in feeling, even though time be real, to realise the unimportance of time is the gate of wisdom. – Bertrand Russell

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Work is of two kinds: first, altering the position of matter at or near the earths surface relative to other matter second, telling other people to do so. – Bertrand Russell

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It is a sobering thought that when Mozart was my age, he had been dead for two years. – Tom Lehrer

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Discrimination due to age is one of the great tragedies of modern life. The desire to work and be useful is what makes life worth living, and to be told your efforts are not needed because you are the wrong age is a crime. – Johnny Ball

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Age is a matter of feeling, not of years. – Washington Irving

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We were making the first step out of the age of chemistry and physics, and into the age of biology. – Jeremy Rifkin

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It frequently happens that two persons, reasoning right on a mechanical subject, think alike and invent the same thing without any communication with each other. – Oliver Evans

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