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Quote by Bertrand Russell
Three passions, simple but overwhelmingly strong, have governed my

Three passions, simple but overwhelmingly strong, have governed my life: the longing for love, the search for knowledge, and unbearable pity for the suffering of mankind. – Bertrand Russell

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In the revolt against idealism, the ambiguities of the word experience have been perceived, with the result that realists have more and more avoided the word. – Bertrand Russell

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Experience
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Bertrand Russell
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Religions, which condemn the pleasures of sense, drive men to seek the pleasures of power. Throughout history power has been the vice of the ascetic. – Bertrand Russell

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History
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Bertrand Russell
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To my knowledge, I was the first guy really to do what I do. And then later on different comedians started trying doing it. – Don Rickles

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Knowledge has to be improved, challenged, and increased constantly, or it vanishes. – Peter Drucker

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Knowledge

Learned men are the cisterns of knowledge, not the fountainheads. – James Northcote

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International relationships are preordained to be clumsy gestures based on imperfect knowledge. – Rebecca West

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A system of education, which would not gratify this disposition in any party, is requisite, in order to obviate the difficulty, and the reader will find a something said to that purpose in perusing this tract. – Joseph Lancaster

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