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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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Next to enjoying ourselves, the next greatest pleasure consists in preventing others from enjoying themselves, or, more generally, in the acquisition of power. – Bertrand Russell

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One of the symptoms of an approaching nervous breakdown is the belief that ones work is terribly important. – Bertrand Russell

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What the world needs is not dogma but an attitude of scientific inquiry combined with a belief that the torture of millions is not desirable, whether inflicted by Stalin or by a Deity imagined in the likeness of the believer. – Bertrand Russell

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At my age you dont go into fatherhood lightly. – Rod Stewart

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Age puzzles me. I thought it was a quiet time. My seventies were interesting and fairly serene, but my eighties are passionate. I grow more intense as I age. – Florida Scott-Maxwell

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This is the first age thats ever paid much attention to the future, which is a little ironic since we may not have one. – Arthur C. Clarke

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A person is always startled when he hears himself seriously called an old man for the first time. – Oliver W. Holmes, Sr.

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