Quote by 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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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 observer, when he seems to himself to be observing a stone, is really, if physics is to be believed, observing the effects of the stone upon himself. – Bertrand Russell

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Man is a credulous animal, and must believe something in the absence of good grounds for belief, he will be satisfied with bad ones. – Bertrand Russell

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There is a great discovery still to be made in literature, that of paying literary men by the quantity they do not write. – Thomas Carlyle

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The internet is a great way to get on the net. – Bob Dole

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To become truly great, one has to stand with people, not above them. – Charles de Montesquieu

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I do have my ducks in line if I want to do it, but Id love to see the Republicans pick somebody that was going to win and take over this country and frankly, to use the expression, Make America great again. – Donald Trump

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Faith is love taking the form of aspiration. – William Ellery Channing

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After all is said and done, a lot more will have been said than done. – Author Unknown

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We know all their gods; they ignore ours. What they call our sins are our gods, and what they call their gods, we name otherwise. – Natalie Clifford Barney

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If we must not act save on a certainty, we ought not to act on religion, for it is not certain. But how many things we do on an uncertainty, sea voyages, battles! – Blaise Pascal

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