Quote by Bertrand Russell
Undoubtedly the desire for food has been and still is one of the m

Undoubtedly the desire for food has been and still is one of the main causes of political events. – Bertrand Russell

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The point of philosophy is to start with something so simple as not to seem worth stating, and to end with something so paradoxical that no one will believe it. – Bertrand Russell

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Philosophy
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Many a man will have the courage to die gallantly, but will not have the courage to say, or even to think, that the cause for which he is asked to die is an unworthy one. – Bertrand Russell

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The true spirit of delight, the exaltation, the sense of being more than Man, which is the touchstone of the highest excellence, is to be found in mathematics as surely as poetry. – Bertrand Russell

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To conquer oneself is a greater task than conquering others. – Buddha

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Sympathy is never wasted except when you give it to yourself. – John W. Raper

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Girls we love for what they are; young men for what they promise to be. – Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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When it comes time to do your own life, you either perpetuate your childhood or you stand on it and finally kick it out from under. – Rosellen Brown

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Men get opinions as boys learn to spell by reiteration chiefly. – Elizabeth Barrett Browning

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