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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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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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Science
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Bertrand Russell
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Collective fear stimulates herd instinct, and tends to produce ferocity toward those who are not regarded as members of the herd. – Bertrand Russell

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Fear
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The monopoly of science in the realm of knowledge explains why evolutionary biologists do not find it meaningful to address the question whether the Darwinian theory is true. – Phillip E. Johnson

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Knowledge

Dogmatism and skepticism are both, in a sense, absolute philosophies one is certain of knowing, the other of not knowing. What philosophy should dissipate is certainty, whether of knowledge or ignorance. – Bertrand Russell

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Knowledge

Without self knowledge, without understanding the working and functions of his machine, man cannot be free, he cannot govern himself and he will always remain a slave. – G. I. Gurdjieff

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Knowledge

If information and knowledge are central to democracy, they are conditions for development. – Kofi Annan

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Knowledge

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If you want that good feeling that comes from doing things for other folks then you have to pay for it in abuse and misunderstanding. – Zora Neale Hurston

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I love giving gifts and I love receiving them. I really like giving little kids extravagant gifts. You see their little faces light up and they get excited. If its a really good gift, I love receiving it, like jewels, small islands. – Gina Gershon

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Art is the beautiful way of doing things. Science is the effective way of doing things. Business is the economic way of doing things. – Elbert Hubbard

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Falsehood is cowardice, the truth courage. – Hosea Ballou

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