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Quote by Bertrand Russell
There is no need to worry about mere size. We do not necessarily r

There is no need to worry about mere size. We do not necessarily respect a fat man more than a thin man. Sir Isaac Newton was very much smaller than a hippopotamus, but we do not on that account value him less. – 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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Almost everything that distinguishes the modern world from earlier centuries is attributable to science, which achieved its most spectacular triumphs in the seventeenth century. – Bertrand Russell

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Man needs, for his happiness, not only the enjoyment of this or that, but hope and enterprise and change. – Bertrand Russell

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There exist only three beings worthy of respect: the priest, the soldier, the poet. To know, to kill, to create. – Charles Baudelaire

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Since the composer has said everything, if you discover everything, it will be enough and you will be a happy man. Dont try to say its your taste, and because of that you are changing this or that. And I must say this respect is still there. – Kurt Masur

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I have the absolute utmost respect for soap opera actors now. They work harder than any actor I know in any other medium. And they dont get very much approbation for it. – Joan Collins

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Judge Roberts has assured me personally that he has a healthy respect for precedent and the hard-won rights of Americans. – Max Baucus

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