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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 America everybody is of the opinion that he has no social superiors, since all men are equal, but he does not admit that he has no social inferiors, for, from the time of Jefferson onward, the doctrine that all men are equal applies only upwards, not downwards. – Bertrand Russell

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Equality
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Aristotle could have avoided the mistake of thinking that women have fewer teeth than men, by the simple device of asking Mrs. Aristotle to keep her mouth open while he counted. – Bertrand Russell

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Men
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Nine-tenths of the appeal of pornography is due to the indecent feelings concerning sex which moralists inculcate in the young; the other tenth is physiological, and will occur in one way or another whatever the state of the law may be. – Bertrand Russell

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Pornography
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Life has obliged him to remember so much useful knowledge that he has lost not only his history, but his whole original cargo of useless knowledge history, languages, literatures, the higher mathematics, or what you will – are all gone. – Albert J. Nock

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Knowledge

Agricultural practice served Darwin as the material basis for the elaboration of his theory of Evolution, which explained the natural causation of the adaptation we see in the structure of the organic world. That was a great advance in the knowledge of living nature. – Trofim Lysenko

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Knowledge

Compassion is a practically acquired knowledge, like dancing. You must do it and practice diligently day by day. – Karen Armstrong

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Knowledge

We have no firm hold on any knowledge or philosophy that can lift us out of our difficulties. – Anne Sullivan Macy

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Knowledge

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A person given to barefaced flattery, will usually balance the account with interest in your absence. – Augustus William Hare and Julius Charles Hare, Guesses at Truth, by Two Brothers

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He that hath a trade hath an estate; he that hath a calling hath an office of profit and honor. – Benjamin Franklin

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People are chasing cash, not happiness. When you chase money, youre going to lose. Youre just going to. Even if you get the money, youre not going to be happy. – Gary Vaynerchuk

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